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Bringing art to the middle class in China
BEIJING — As the world's top collectors, gallerists and dealers converged in Hong Kong a week ago for Art Basel, the city's inaugural edition of one of the world's premier art shows, a very different kind of art venture was launching in the...Tags: Beijing (China), China, Fine Artists, Hong Kong, Arts
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Is marketplace the best judge of art? A debate -- and an answer
The art market experienced a noteworthy correction in Hong Kong last week. On Friday, a formal debate was held at the newest spinoff of the Art Basel franchise of international art fairs to consider the motion: "The Market Is the Best Judge of Art's...Tags: South China Morning Post Limited, Crime, Law and Justice, Arts, Judges, Auction Service
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Big events for June
June's garden of events is fuller than that of any other month, giving the traveler a big bouquet of possibilities. There's art in Arkansas and Basel; music in Vancouver and Maine; and even a restaging of Napoleon's last stand in — where else?...
Tags: George Benson, Sports, Pink Martini (music group), Music, Entertainment
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Debating the art market as the best judge of quality
On May 24 at China's Hong Kong Convention Center an outfit called Intelligence Squared will host a formal debate during the debut of the newest spinoff of the Art Basel franchise of international art fairs. The motion under consideration will be: "The...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, China, Hong Kong, Arts, Judges
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She's the best antidote to today's selfish thinking
She's an artist, teacher-therapist and giver who donates all proceeds from the sale of her art to charity. She's the opposite of the "greed-is-good" poison. Ayn Rand would have made her a villain in Atlas Shrugged because she helps other people. Paul...Tags: Teachers, Ayn Rand, New York University, AIDS, Human Interest
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The grilled cheese grows up
You can say we're having a grilled cheese moment. Our favorite childhood comfort food is suddenly commanding not just a spot on menus, but full-fledged restaurants. Last November, longtime Miami chef Allen Susser opened Daily Melt, a grilled...
Tags: Restaurants, South Miami, Wilton Manors, Tomatoes, Coral Gables
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'All-Media' doubles up
The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood's "All-Media Juried Biennial" has always offered viewers a chance to see works by established artists while discovering artists not yet on their radar. The upcoming biennial, which drew submissions from 267...
Tags: Painting, Culture, Book, Fine Artists, Arts
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Katy Perry, Sophia Bush and more at ShopBazaar Coachella party
Katy Perry, Sophia Bush, Julianne Hough, director and actor Eli Roth and more stepped away from the Coachella Music and Arts Festival grounds Friday to fete ShopBazaar, Harper's Bazaar's editor-run e-commerce site. The Gene Autry pool at the Parker Palm...Tags: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Alexander Wang, Charlie Sheen, Katy Perry, Google+
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Let us go then, you and I, to O, Miami
As a man who two years ago carried the near-impossible mission of exposing 2.6 million Miami-Dade County residents to poetry, and who did so with a monthlong slate of events that included dropping famous poems from helicopters and sewing them into thrift-...
Tags: Coral Gables, Michael Bay, Poetry, Kevin Young, NBC (tv network)
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'Art comes first' in Tony Karman's comeback story
C'mon — who doesn't love a good comeback story? Tony Karman gave us a great one when he launched Expo Chicago in September, a new and improved contemporary art fair that earned high marks for its visually sumptuous design, spacious exhibitor...
Tags: Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Arts, Artists, Arts and Culture
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Miami art collectors take works to Palm Springs Art Museum show
Don and Mera Rubell are known in the art world as the New York-to-Miami transplants who helped to bring the Art Basel art fair to Florida and opened a museum-like space there for their cutting-edge collection. Not so well known: their connections to...Tags: Museums, Fine Artists, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Arts, Artists
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A Banksy mural, lost in London, is found in Miami
North Londoners are furious over a missing Banksy mural that was torn off a building in the Wood Green neighborhood of the city and has since resurfaced online at Fine Art Auctions Miami. The high-profile mural by the mysterious street artist, no...
Tags: Arts, Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II (2012), Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Banksy, Auction Service
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