"China commandeered the world stage Friday, celebrating its first-time role as Olympic host with a stunning display of pageantry and pyrotechnics to open a Summer Games unrivaled for its mix of problems and promise. China welcomed scores of world leaders to an opening...
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The debate over the portrayal of children in the magazines are hotly debated in Australia and the current debate has got even Prime Minister involved. "A photograph of a nude six-year-old girl on the front cover of an Australian art magazine has re-ignited a row over the...
A piece of Banksy's work was painted over by London council just a little while after it was first displayed, saying it was worth worthless graffiti. Some of Banksy's previous works have fetched up to a million...
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"A "Thangka," also known as "Tangka", "Thanka" or "Tanka" (Pronunciation: [toːnkoː], the 'th' as an aspirated 't' and the 'a' as in the word water) (Tibetan: ཐང་ཀ་, Nepal Bhasa:पौभा) is a painted or embroidered Buddhist banner which was hung in a monastery...
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As we reported earlier, British artist Banksy is staging his annual "Santa's Ghetto" mural exhibition in Bethlehem this year. But it has provoked controversy and now critics have painted over some of his...
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"The painting was just one among a motley selection up for auction in Market Harborough, LE16, UK, Leicestershire, England. There was a sentimental picture of gambolling terriers ("English school, estimate £150-200"); cottagey views; harvest scenes; Scottish waterfalls: a...
This is not news per se but I did find it a horrifying reminder of the scary nightmares of my youth. I can remember how my friends and I would argue back and forth about how big a blast Vancouver airport would...
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"The blood-spattered spectacle of 300 has done more than any film since Gladiator to rekindle American interest in Ancient warfare. The cartoonish depiction of the Spartan military alongside the incalculable...
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"Never has a symbology or denim jeans material ever looked so good.
This type of branding and marketing really has a way of catching ones attention. Let us not miss what is important here though, and that is? ......
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"you cant bite the hands that feed you was nigerian gorvernment's reaction to CNN's report depicting the situation in the Niger Delta in an unethical and subvversive way as it canceled an advert it had placed on the tv station."
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"Ok, ok!
Some say bad publicity is better than no publicity at all, but I am willing to guess that some executive at The Cartoon Network is sketching himself an "OUT" (a trap door, maybe?)...
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"THE ISSUE: House speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi's ascension after the Dems' Election Day sucess.
The smirk on Nancy Pelosi's face depicted in the photograph accompanying "Diss and Make Up" (Nov. 10) is a clear...
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