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- Margarito stops Cotto to claim WBA welterweight title
- LAS VEGAS, Nevada AFP — Mexico's Antonio Margarito stopped previously unbeaten Miguel Cotto in the 11th round here Saturday to claim the Puerto Rican's World Boxing Association welterweight world title. The Mexican, who gave up the International Boxing Federation belt to fight Cotto, sent his bloodied opponent to the...
- Research articles 2008-07-26
- Pavlik retains WBC and WBO middleweight titles
- ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey AFP — Unbeaten American Kelly Pavlik emphatically stopped Welshman Gary Lockett in the third round Saturday to retain his World Boxing Council and World Boxing Organization middleweight titles. Referee Eddie Cotton called a halt to the bout at the request of the battered Lockett's corner...
- Research articles 2008-06-07
- Bradley shatters Witter dreams
- NOTTINGHAM, England AFP — Timothy Bradley sent Junior Witter to the canvas before triumphing by a split points decision to win the WBC light-welterweight title at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham on Saturday. Bradley floored Englishman Witter in the sixth round but the champion regained his composure before...
- Research articles 2008-05-10
- Guerrero stops Litzau to retain IBF featherweight title
- LEMOORE, California AFP — Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero emphatically stopped Jason Litzau in the eighth round here Friday to retain his International Boxing Federation featherweight world title. Guerrero knocked down Litzau once in the eighth, the challenger climbing off the canvas only to be sent down again by a...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Boxer Khan toasts birthday with 72-second victory
- BOLTON, England AFP — Britain's Amir Khan celebrated his 21st birthday in blistering style on Saturday with a 72-second win over compatriot Graham Earl to defend his Commonwealth lightweight title. The referee stopped the fight after Khan, an Olympic silver medallist in 2004, sent Earl to the canvas twice...
- Research articles 2007-12-08
- Mayorga spoils Vargas boxing retirement party
- LOS ANGELES AFP — Ricardo Mayorga knocked down Fernando Vargas in the first and 11th rounds to capture a majority decision here Friday in a duel of former world champions, sending Vargas to retirement in defeat. Two judges scored the Nicaraguan fighter a winner by scores of 115-111 and...
- Research articles 2007-11-24
- Disputed British art prize winners back on show
- LONDON AFP — Highlights from over 20 years of Britain's often-controversial Turner Prize art show go on display from Tuesday, in a retrospective exhibition which is once again fueling fierce debate. A pickled cow by ex Britart badboy Damien Hirst and Chris Ofili's elephant dung canvas are among the...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- English boxer Witter savours sweet sensation of victory
- DONCASTER, England AFP — Junior Witter described his seventh round knock-out win over Vivian Harris to defend his WBC light-welterweight title on Friday as his "sweetest victory". The Englishman made an impressive second defence of his world title by flooring Harris for the second time in the fight with...
- Research articles 2007-09-08
- Peter Greenaway applies brush to cinematic canvas in 'Nightwatching'
- VENICE, Italy AFP — British director and art house favourite Peter Greenaway has applied his own unique brush to the cinematic canvas to illuminate the many secrets of the Rembrandt masterpiece "The Nightwatch". Greenaway's voluptuous film "Nightwatching," shown at the Venice film festival on Thursday, explores the three women...
- Research articles 2007-09-06
- Luevano clinches WBO featherweight title
- LONDON AFP — America's Steven Luevano sent England's Nicky Cook to the canvas five times on the way to winning the World Boxing Organisation WBO featherweight title at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday. Luevano claimed the vacant title with a dominant display against Cook, who first visited...
- Research articles 2007-07-14
- Driven By Design
- C loaked in a silver canvas, the machine sat on the roof of a glass-and-steel box in the industrialized outskirts of Turin, Italy; at its side stood three senior designers from Pininfarina, the storied automotive-styling house. Jason Castriota, best known for his Ferrari exteriors, lifted a corner of the canvas...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Australian master's secret sweetheart emerges from canvas
- MELBOURNE AFP — A bullet-riddled canvas by one of Australia's most respected painters has revealed a story of hidden passion dating back more than a century, art historians said Tuesday. The National Gallery of Victoria said restoration work on Arthur Streeton's impressionist masterpiece "Spring" showed the painted over figure...
- Research articles 2007-06-12
- 83rd Annual Spring Salon Award Winners
- First Place Douglas M. Fryer: "Seated Model, Karli" oil on panel and "Studio Model, Karli at Five Months" oil on panel Second Place Edie Roberson: "The Ladies Club" (acrylic, pencil, pastel) Fred D. Howard: "North Heber Summer" oil on canvas...
- Research articles 2007-05-13
- Martina Navratilova exhibition shows tennis as art
- PARIS AFP — Who but world's women's tennis legend Martina Navratilova would have believed hitting a ball could become art hung on a wall? Yet for the past six years in secret, Navratilova and Slovak artist Juraj Kralik have been painting canvases produced by hitting balls, which are going...
- Research articles 2007-03-22
- Thieves make surprise cash withdrawal from art gallery
- OSLO AFP — A Norwegian painting featuring 16,311 dollars (12,400 euros) of banknotes glued to a canvas proved too tempting to thieves, who made off with it at the weekend, the gallery that displayed it said Monday. Some 100,000 bills of 1,000 kroner each were glued to Norwegian artist...
- Research articles 2007-02-26
- An Op Art original
- In the '60s, she was making art that was part of the psychedelic fabric of its day, mind-blowing optical trickery, paintings that vibrated and moved, art that anticipated a digital medium few had imagined. But Edna Andrade was no hippie, no part of the like-wow drug culture that embraced the...
- Research articles 2007-01-11
- Nino keeps light flyweight title after majority draw with Viloria
- LAS VEGAS, Nevada AFP — Mexico's Omar Nino has retained the World Boxing Council light flyweight title on a majority draw despite being knocked down twice by US ex-champion Brian Viloria. Two judges saw the 12-round bout 113-113 while the third saw Nino a 115-112 winner. Omar's record went to...
- Research articles 2006-11-18
- Goya painting stolen en route to New York exhibition
- NEW YORK AFP — Thieves have made off with a painting by 18th century Spanish master Francisco de Goya after intercepting the canvas en route to New York for a special exhibition opening Friday, officials said. "Children with a Cart," a 1778 painting on loan from the Toledo Museum of...
- Research articles 2006-11-14
- Pictures take a chance with words
- From 1974 through the late 1980s, every Jennifer Bartlett show at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York was a highly anticipated event. Then Bartlett parted company with Cooper, the gallery with which she had been so closely identified. Her subsequent exhibitions at various galleries often seemed to catch her...
- Research articles 2006-10-20
- Oops, US tycoon jabs elbow through Picasso he sold
- WASHINGTON AFP — Las Vegas gaming tycoon Steve Wynn, proudly showing to friends a Picasso he had just sold for 139 million dollars, accidentally poked his elbow through the canvas, according to a witness. "There was a terrible noise," wrote author Nora Ephron on the blog The Huffington Post, who...
- Research articles 2006-10-18
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