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• Exhibit slamming eight years under Bush begins US tour

  - 2008-06-24

  WASHINGTON AFP — An exhibition slamming the legacy of US President George W. Bush was unveiled Tuesday in Washington in a 45-foot (15 meters) long, 28-ton bus parked just steps from the White House. Emblazoned on the side of the bio-diesel powered bus are the words "The Bush Legacy,"...

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• Bangladesh cancels French museum show after theft of rare artefacts

  - 2007-12-25

  DHAKA AFP — Bangladesh cancelled plans to send rare artefacts to Paris for a museum exhibition next year after two ancient statues of a Hindu deity were stolen en route to France. The 1,500-year-old rare terracotta statues of the Hindu god Vishnu disappeared from Zia International Airport in Dhaka...

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• Anti-war protest replica wins Turner Prize

  - 2007-12-03

  LONDON AFP — An exact replica of a 40-metre (130-foot) long one-man anti-war protest outside Britain's parliament won this year's Turner Prize on Monday. Mark Wallinger's painstaking recreation, "State Britain", which is now featured inside the Tate Britain gallery in Liverpool, was praised by the award panel for its...

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• Gauguin retrospective opens in Rome

  - 2007-10-05

  ROME AFP — A massive retrospective of French Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin opens in Rome Saturday, pulling together 150 of his masterpieces from more than 50 collections around the world. The focus of the exhibition will be the painter's relationship with the classical world and Rome in particular --...

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• Cultural critics slam Kylie and Kate shows in London

  - 2007-02-06

  LONDON AFP — Cultural critics poured scorn on decisions by two major London museums to devote shows to celebrities including Kylie Minogue and Kate Moss, claiming they were chasing crowds not quality. The Victoria and Albert Museum's "Kylie -- The Exhibition" opens Thursday, the week before "Face of Fashion"...

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• Kate Moss at center of new London portrait exhibition

  - 2006-11-08

  LONDON AFP — British supermodel Kate Moss is to be at the center of a new exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery, featuring work by some of the world's leading contemporary fashion photographers. "We hope to create an exhibition that will extract from the field of fashion what we believe...

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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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• Iron stomach needed for exhibition of Chinese bodies

  - 2005-11-22

  NEW YORK AFP — Skinned and dissected, muscles, tendons and organs in full view, 22 bodies provided by a Chinese university have become one of the most controversial exhibitions seen in New York in recent years. The bodies have been placed in normal poses inside glass cases for people...

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• Gritty news photos show great convulsions of the world

  - 2005-08-30

  PERPIGNAN, France AFP — A major exhibition in southern France of images by press photographers is a heart-rending catalog of the world's miseries, and a reminder of the hazards of trying to capture them on film. That danger was underlined on Sunday in Baghdad, where a Reuters television soundman...

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• Prince uses art to bring change in Laos

  - 2004-04-17

  WASHINGTON AFP ? Nearly 30 years after communists seized power from a conservative monarchy in Laos, Prince Nithakhong Somsanith only reluctantly accepts the death of royalty in his tiny Southeast Asian country. "I sincerely feel monarchy is alive today because Buddhism has remained and these two elements are inseparable...

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