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Organizers rethink int'l art show in New Orleans

The nation's economic downturn is prompting officials to revamp the city's foray into international contemporary art shows.

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A Year in a Cage: A Life Shrunk to Expand Art
Source: The New York Times

Art takes total commitment, but few artists maintain it around the clock. An exception is the Taiwanese-born performance artist Tehching Hsieh (pronounced dur-ching shay), specifically, the five, grueling one-year pieces he executed, mostly in New York, from 1978 to 1986.

Art Show Opens in N.Y. With Less Hedge-Fund Money for Picasso
Source: Bloomberg.com

Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- At the Art Show last year, dealer Richard L. Feigen offered an $8.5 million Pablo Picasso still life. This year, he's highlighting less expensive art, including a $90,000 purple teapot painting by Georges Braque.

Louvre sets stage for "Funeral of Mona Lisa
Source: Reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - A giant, grey version of Mona Lisa with tears in her eyes and streaks of paint running down her front goes on display at the Louvre museum this week in the room next to the original by Leonardo da Vinci.

conservation as artists muse
Source: ipsnews.net

San Diego exhibit wrestles with art imitating nature versus art preserving nature.

International art show to feature works by displaced Katrina artists
Source: Hiram College

Forested Landscape, an exhibition of creative works from the Hiram College Creative Field Studies Program, will open Tuesday, Jan. 31, in the Frohring Art Center at the College.

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