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• Erotic Picasso art sparks Greek school row: reports

  - 2008-03-08

  ATHENS AFP — A collection of erotic prints by Pablo Picasso has sparked a dispute in Salonika, northern Greece, after parents and school headmasters called into question whether they were suitable for minors, Greek media reported Saturday. Schools were initially banned from visiting the exhibition of Picasso's 'Suite 347'...

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• Expo in Ahmadinejad's Iran showcases avant-garde art

  - 2007-10-13

  TEHRAN AFP — A video installation by world-famous US artist Bill Viola. Contemporary Japanese art tackling AIDS. A print by an Iranian filmmaker whose most recent work was not shown in the Islamic republic. Perhaps not what you would expect to find in central Tehran, currently in the midst...

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• African modern art exhibition finishes world tour in Africa

  - 2007-06-24

  JOHANNESBURG AFP — Africa Remix, an exhibition of African contemporary art that has attracted hordes of visitors to the world's biggest museums, ends its tour with a first time opening on the continent in Johannesburg Sunday. Launched in 2004 in Dusseldorf, Germany, before making its way to London, Paris,...

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• Rotterdam exhibition showcases Le Corbusier's many facets

  - 2007-05-26

  ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands AFP — An exhibition showcasing the many facets of Le Corbusier -- architect, urban planner, photographer and painter -- opened Saturday in Rottderdam where several buildings are inspired by him. Le Corbusier, as Charles-Edouard Jeanneret was better-known, was a leading modernist whose style was imbibed in...

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• The fabric of dreams on show in Max Mara retrospective

  - 2006-12-18

  BERLIN AFP — Italian fashion house Max Mara has opened its cashmere-lined archives for a new exhibition here that shows the craft and marketing that have made the brand a byword for classy coats. Eighty models that date from the late fifties to this season are on display at the...

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• London museum to host Kylie Minogue's hotpants

  - 2006-10-25

  LONDON AFP — A leading London museum is to host an exhibition of outfits worn by Kylie Minogue, charting her rise from soap opera actress to multi-million selling pop princess, a spokeswoman said. The Australian singer will be the subject of a show at the Victoria and Albert Museum featuring...

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• Game on! London exhibition celebrates the history of video games

  - 2006-10-20

  LONDON AFP — The Science Museum in London will launch the first exhibition dedicated to the history of video games, with fans able to put their old skills to the test on more than 120 classics. "It's very rare to be able to have the whole of an industry on...

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• Getty Museum explores Rubens-Brueghel friendship

  - 2006-07-07

  LOS ANGELES AFP — The Paul Getty Museum this week opened an exhibition exploring the creative friendship between Dutch masters Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder which in the early 17th century spawned more than 20 works of art. Billed as the first exhibition devoted to the...

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• Working models of Da Vinci's inventions go on show in Vienna

  - 2005-03-08

  VIENNA AFP — The scientific genius of Leonardo da Vinci is on show at an exhibition here of 62 functioning full-scale and miniature models of his inventions, the biggest such display in the world. His designs include a forerunner of the bicycle, breathing apparatus for divers, hang gliders, elevators,...

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• British artists vie for controversial Turner Prize

  - 2003-12-05

  LONDON AFP ? A whiff of scandal is in the air again as Britain waits to hear on Sunday who has won the Turner Prize, one of contemporary art's most controversial awards. More than 50,000 visitors have passed through the doors of the Tate Britain gallery in central London...

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