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Innovative museum exhibits famous novel
Fans of a romantic novel by author Orhan Pamuk are being urged to travel to Turkey to complete the book.
The 83 chapters in "Kemal and Fusun" are on paper, but at the end of the book there's a free a ticket to a museum in Istanbul that...
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Jogging tours of Rome
AP Television
Rome, Italy - April 16, 2011
1. Wide of jogging tour guide Nicole Stahel talking to German joggers before going on jogging tour of city
2. Nicole talking to people in tour, UPSOUND (German) Nicole Stahel, Jogging tour...
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Race against rot to save world''s oldest music hall
AP Television
London, UK - July 28, 2011
1. Mid exterior of entrance to Wilton''s music hall
2. Pull focus from lavender to sign reading: (English) "Wilton''s The City''s Hidden Stage"
3. Close of red stage curtain to wide of theatre
4....
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Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates punk in its annual costume exhibit
AP Entertainment
New York, 6 May 2013
1. Medium sign at start of exhibit: PUNK: Chaos to Couture
2. Wide of media previewing exhibition
3. Wide of media previewing exhibition
4. Medium of punk outfits
5. Close-up of spiked chain belt
6....
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Italy - Art aims to unite Catholicism and Islam
Vatican Art / Rome / March 30th / ENT 4
Art builds bridges at the Vatican
As a symbolic gesture to promote peace and harmony in a religiously divided world, the Vatican has opened up its hallowed doors to welcome a major new exhibition...
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100th anniversry of the birth of writer Julio Cortazar
A special series of exhibitions opened in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, commemorating the centenary of the birth of Argentine writer Julio Cortazar, one of the most influential writers in the Spanish-speaking world.
Cortazar, who died at the...
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Spruced up Mona Lisa copy goes on display at Prado museum
1. Close-up of face of the version of the 'Mona Lisa' (known as 'La Gioconda' in Spanish) held by the Prado Museum
2. Close-up of background of painting
3. Close-up of Mona Lisa's eyes
4. Wide of media filming painting
5. Close tilt...
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CLIENT REPLAY DW TV Magic of the circus comes to ice sculpture festival
Roevershagen, near Rostock, northern Germany
1. Mid of clown surrounded by ice sculptures
2. Pan from ice elephant to ice clown sculpture
3. Close up of ice elephant
4. Various of jumping jaguar ice sculpture
5. Mid of circus manager...
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Bank notes depicting Nelson Mandela's face go into circulation
1. Tilt up from groceries on shop counter to Gill Marcus, Governor of South African Reserve Bank, holding new bank notes featuring the face of Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa
2. Tilt up from bank notes to Marcus talking...
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China - World's largest Census undertaken / Artist and activist Ai Weiwei under house arrest / Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize
China - China goes door-to-door in world's biggest census
Beijing - 1 Nov 2010
1. Census workers walking in residential compound
2. Man opening door
3. Close of workers filling in forms and checking details with resident
4. Wide of...
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Cuba - Celebration of Beatles music
A three-day celebration of the pop-group, the Beatles, whose "counter-culture" music was banned by the Communist Cuban government until the mid-1970s, is being held in Havana. The unusual event commemorating the British rock superstars...
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Da Vinci's 'Adoration of the Magi' drawing makes US debut
1. Wide zoom into preparatory sketch for "Adoration of the Magi" by Leonardo da Vinci
2. People standing around looking at sketch
3. Electronic projection of painting "Adoration of the Magi"
4. Electronic projection of section of...
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Artist Frida Kahlo's clothing goes on public display
1. Wide of house where Frida Kahlo and husband Diego Rivera lived (now a museum) with inscription, reading: (Spanish) "Frida and Diego lived in this house 1929-1954"
2. Close-up of exhibit sign with image of Frida, sign reads: (Spanish):...
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Vicent van Gogh, Alberto Giacometti and Amedeo Modigliani star in New York's big-ticket art auctions which kick off tonight
VINCENT VAN GOGH, ALBERTO GIACOMETTI AND AMEDEO MODIGLIANI STAR IN NEW YORK's BIG-TICKET ART AUCTIONS
New York's annual autumn art auctions kick off tonight (TUES.,4 NOV. 2014) and they are being touted by the auction houses as perhaps...
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Thangkas paintings depicting Buddha are Thailand's most-bought pieces of art
1. Various of exterior of shop selling Thangka paintings in Thamel, Kathmandu's main tourist shopping area
2. Various of Thangka paintings depicting Buddha
3. Art dealer Ramesh Shahi Khadgi talking about Thangkas
4. Cutaway Thangka...
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THAILAND: 13 ANCIENT STONE STATUES RETURNED TO CAMBODIA
Thai/English
In a move to clean up its international image, Thailand has handed back 13 ancient stone statues, thought to have been looted from temples in Cambodia.
Thailand is seen as a centre for the lucrative trade in smuggled...
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Mexican art goes on display in New York
1. Wide shot exhibition hall at el Museo del barrio in Upper Manhattan on Fifth Avenue at East 104th Street
2. Medium shot exhibition hall
3. Portrait of Mr. Jacques Gelman by Angel Zarraga (1945)
4. Portrait of Mrs. Natasha Gelman by...
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Famous Van Gogh painting is restored to its former glory
AP Television
Amsterdam, Netherlands - 16 April, 2010
1. Wide of Van Gogh's painting 'The Bedroom' sitting on an easel
2. Various of paintings restorer at the Van Gogh Museum, Ella Hendriks' hand using a long cotton bud to clean the...
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Politically charged Chinese art
AP Television
Beijing, China, 5 December 2009
1. Pan Gao brothers walking in street
2. Exterior of Gao Brothers gallery
3. Close of sign reading Gao Brothers Centre for Contemporary Art
4. Zoom out from brothers to installation...
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UK - Mariko Mori's art exhibition in London
Tradition and Modernity Under same Roof
London's Serpentine Gallery is hosting the first ever exhibition in Britain of the work by the innovative Japanese multi-media artist, Mariko Mori. Mori's imagery combines art history, popular...
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French photo duo Pierre et Gilles love to shock
Famed French photography duo, Pierre et Gilles, are hoping to shock with their latest work - a huge photograph of Algerian-born former prostitute Zahia Dehar made over as Marie Antoinette, provocatively clutching her stomach and holding...
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Mexico celebrates Artist Frida Kahlo's death Aniversary
1. Pan from Diego Rivera´s house (in red) to Frida Kahlo´s smaller
house (in blue)
2. Medium shot of window of Kahlo´s former studio
3. Close up Tequila bottle and two antique glasses
4. Close up cigarettes (Frida Kahlo´s brand)
5....
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Islamic treasures go on show in Berlin
Berlin, March 16th 2010
1. Medium shot of plate with lion - 16th century
2. Pan plate with lion -16th century
3. Pan plate with lion -16th century
4. Medium shot interior of the exhibit
5. Man looking at exhibits
6. Medium shot "Three...
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More on 10 million dollar drawing discovered in back room
1. Pan left, exterior, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
2. Wideshot, zoom in, Michelangelo drawing
3. Closeup, tilt down, Michelangelo drawing
4. Wideshot, Drue Heinz Study Center for Drawings and Prints where drawing was...