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Queen's jubilee impacts on ideal home design
AP Television
London, England - March 16, 2012
1. Various interior shots of the Prince's Arts and Crafts House featuring Union flag crown cake and bathroom
2. Wide pan left of Ideal Home Show
3. Various of marching band
4. Wide of school...
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Preview of auction of Munch's The Scream, Warhol's Double Elvis
The two big New York auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's are getting ready for their annual spring art sales.
One of the four versions of Edvard Munch's masterpiece, "The Scream", will lead Sotheby's Impressionist and modern sale...
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Highlights from Versace fashion show in Milan
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AP Entertainment
Milan, Italy, 21 February 2008
1. Various Versace runway show
2. Finale with Donatella Versace
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Donatella Versace:
" I...
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Arab Spring influence on art at Venice Biennale
AP Television
Venice, Italy - June 2, 2011
1. Various of Saudi Arabia pavilion art installation called "The Black Arch" by sisters from Mecca, Shadia and Raja Alem
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Robin Start, curator, Saudi Arabia...
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FRANCE: PARIS: PUBLIC WORKERS STRIKE AFFECTS TOURISM
Eng/French/Nat
Two weeks of strikes in France have begun to affect the country's tourist industry.
With traffic chaos in Paris and stoppages at airports and on public transport visitors are avoiding the French capital.
With opinions in...
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Picasso, Miro and Dali at Mexico's largest art fair
Mexico's largest contemporary art fair "Zona Maco" is showcasing non-Latin American modern art for the first time.
21 different countries have contributed works by artists such as Picasso, Miro and Dali.
The Zona Maco art fair is in its...
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Turner, Whistler and Monet exhibition opens in London
1. Various exteriors Tate Britain
2. Pan gallery
3. Various 'Mortlake Terreace,' Joseph Turner
4. Various 'London from Greenwich Park' - Joseph Turner
5. Various 'Moonlight' - Joseph Turner
6. Various 'Turner's Rocket and Blue Light' -...
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Grand Palais exhibition of works by Japanese artist Hokusai
A major retrospective of the work of Japanese artist Hokusai is due to open on Wednesday at the Paris Grand Palais.
The exhibition, which runs through to January 18 2015, features up to five hundred Hokusai works - three hundred...
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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's "Sunflower Seeds" is expected to fetch record sum at auction
May 8, 2012
1. Wide exterior of Sotheby's auction house
2. Wide interior showing "Sunflower Seeds" (2010) by Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei
May 9, 2012
3. Set up of Nicolai Frahm, art advisor and collector
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicolai...
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Authorities in Mexico City finish last details for giant Day of the Dead offering
Artwork, altars, skeletal figures and other offerings in celebration of Day of the Dead began to fill Mexico City's Zocalo Plaza on Thursday ahead of the annual holiday festivities over the weekend.
The Day of the Dead is dedicated to...
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Matisse's painting sold at Christie's for more than USD 30 million
06 November 2007
1. Wide pan of people attending Christie's auction
2. People on phones to bidders during auction
3. Wide of auction during bidding for Henri Matisse's "L'Odalisque, Harmonie Bleue"
4. Auctioneer starting bidding...
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Sotheby's presser on sale of antique ceramic sold for $26 million
1. Close of box carrying Ruyao Washer being opened, Ruyao Washer being displayed
2. Nicolas Chow, Sotheby's International Head of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, holding the Ruyao Washer
3. Close of Chow looking at Ruyao Washer
4....
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Famous statue celebrates 75th anniversary
1. Wide of Christ the Redeemer
2. People in front of Christ the Redeemer
3. Various of Christ the Redeemer
4. Various of French musical trio "Trio Chausson" playing at anniversary ceremony
5. Violinist playing
6. Cellist Antoine...
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Open air exhibition of giant heart sculptures
1. Wide of hearts with Mount Lycabettus in background
2. Close-up of bush shaped like a heart
3. Tilt up of heart
4. Woman taking picture of heart shaped art work
5. Wide of man with various hearts on display in background
6. Heart with...
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ISRAEL: MACHISMO AND MILITARISM ON DISPLAY AT ISRAEL MUSEUM
English/Nat
An unusual exhibition has opened at Jerusalem's Israel Museum.
The show attacks male macho attitudes and militarism in Israeli society.
The exhibits include a number of edible chocolate soldiers and a set of three oil ...
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Winning Islamic artworks go on display in UAE
Sharjah - 15th September 2010
1. Wide of front of Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation showing banners for Jameel Prize on facade of building
2. Close-up of gilded dome on top of museum
3. Wide of people looking at work by Iranian...
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Changing Face of China, AP focus on porcelain city famed for 'China' name
Jingde, Jiang xi Province - 16 April, 2008
1. Potter, Hu Guo Shou, working in small workshop
2. Close-up of potter's hands turning clay on pottery wheel
3. More of potter's hands on clay
4. Close-up of potter's face
5. Wide pan of pot...
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Exhibition opens in Jerusalem showing the style of Jewish fashions from around the world
Long before stilettos, runways and Vogue, the passion for fashion and trendy looks was just as strong in the 19th century in some of the most remote parts of the world.
A recently opened exhibit at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem...
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Artist create sculptures in his forge
Cape Town, South Africa - recent
1. Various of Conrad Hicks placing steel in fire
2. Close of fire
3. Various of Hicks working on the anvil
4. Tracking shot of tools
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Conrad Hicks, Artist-Blacksmith
"To me this is...
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CHINA: BEIJING: BIGGEST ART EXHIBITION OF THE YEAR OPENS
Mandarin/Eng/Nat
China's biggest art exhibition of the year opened in Beijing on Friday.
The exhibition, which is organised by the China National Culture and Art Corporation, is limited to displaying art that's been deemed appropriate...
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Frida Kahlo self portrait auctioned
1. Wide shot exterior Christie's auction house in Manhattan
2. Wide shot Frida Kahlo self portrait hung in between two Diego Rivera paintings
3. Close-up Kahlo self portrait
4. Tilt up, close up, Kahlo self portrait
5. SOUNDBITE:...
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Stolen Matisse to return to museum more than a decade after its theft
1. Various of a photo of the painting 'Odalisque in Red Pants' by Henri Matisse
2. Raul Grioni, President of Venezuela's Cultural Patrimony Institute, talking to assistant
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Raul Grioni, President of Venezuela's...
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Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit poppy installation at Tower of London
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry made a visit to the Tower of London on Tuesday (5 AUG.) to a see a unique art installation to commemorate the centenary of World War One.
The Tower of London's moat was turned red by a...
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Hong Kong Art Fair opens
AP Television
Hong Kong - May 25, 2011
1. Wide of artwork of heads nodding, Fermentation of Nose, 2011
2. Close of artwork of heads nodding, Fermentation of Nose, 2011
3. Wide of 2 paintings of Chairman Mao by Andy Warhol, Mao, 1973...