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Artist carries on family tradition

Albuquerque Journal 08 Dec 2019

She knew it would be her life at 6 ... 15 ... She especially treasures some “greasy gold” antique French beads housed in an old glass spaghetti sauce jar. Pigment-painted earrings with beaded edges by Assiniboine/Sioux bead artist Jessa Rae Growing Thunder ... She paints traditional designs on the earrings with pigment paints and beads the edges ... 15....

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Warren dives into wealth tax at Peterborough bowling alley

The Keene Sentinel 07 Dec 2019

Warren told The Sentinel she would be open to a value-added tax, but argued her wealth tax plan would more effectively raise revenue from only the ultra-wealthy by having no exemptions for any particular kinds of assets — such as paintings or antiques — that were protected under the French model that was ultimately repealed....

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France to open anti-hate crimes office following Jewish graveyard vandalism

The Jerusalem Post 06 Dec 2019

About 107 graves were painted with swastikas and the like at the cemetery, which is known for housing Karl Marx's ancestors, on Tuesday night. French Interior Minister Christophe ......

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French post-impressionist painting sells for EUR 9.5 million

Deccan Chronicle 06 Dec 2019

A painting by French post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin fetched 9.5 million euros ($10.5 million) in a Paris auction on Tuesday....

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More than 100 graves defaced in Jewish cemetery in France

Daily American 05 Dec 2019

French police have launched an investigation after Nazi swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were spray painted on 107 graves in a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg. CNN's Matthew Chance reports ... ....

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Art Maker: Richard Cohen, pastel painter

Daily Hampshire Gazette 05 Dec 2019

... with a French painter, create oil and watercolor paintings....

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Holiday ArtWalk, Christmas Stroll, and pop-up parties focus on local, handmade goods

Billings Gazette 05 Dec 2019

Painter Jennifer Eli French, who is known for her intricate and delicate painting techniques, has released a series of hand-painted earrings, available at Stapleton Gallery ... During Friday's ArtWalk, Martin will have her wares on display at McCormick Cafe alongside Justin Dowler's brightly colored abstract paintings....

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Rare Tahitian painting by Gauguin sells for €9.5m at Artcurial in Paris

The Art Newspaper 04 Dec 2019

Paul Gauguin’s painting Te Bourao II (The Purao Tree) sold at auction in Paris last night for €9.5m, considerably higher than the €5m-€7m estimate. Artcurial, which handled the sale, says that it was the first Gauguin Tahitian picture to come onto the French market in 22 years....

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Swastikas, slurs graffitied on more than 100 graves at Jewish cemetery in France

WPTV 04 Dec 2019

French police have launched an investigation after Nazi swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were spray-painted on 107 graves in a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg. French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, who visited the cemetery in Westhoffen, eastern France, on Wednesday morning, described the incident as a "heinous act of anti-Semitism."....

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More than 100 Jewish graves defaced in France with Nazi swastikas

The Independent 04 Dec 2019

Vandals spray swastikas over post boxes painted with face of late Holocaust survivor and renowned French politician Simone Veil in Paris, France ... Vandals spray swastikas over post boxes painted with face of late Holocaust survivor and renowned French politician Simone Veil in Paris, France....

photo: AP / Jean-Francois Badias

Strasbourg chief Rabbi Harold Abraham Weill, left, and a another member of the Jewish community watch vandalized tombs in the Jewish cemetery of Westhoffen, west of the city of Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019

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Swastikas sprayed on more than 100 graves in Jewish cemetery in France

CNN 04 Dec 2019

Paris (CNN)French police have launched an investigation after Nazi swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were spray-painted on 107 graves in a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg ... Tarnish the memory of our French republic ... French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the attack in a tweet on Tuesday evening....

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‘Russia is no longer enemy of NATO, international terrorism is’: Macron calls on bloc to ...

Russia Today 04 Dec 2019

French President ... In his speech, the French leader managed to combine the persistent NATO’s desire to paint Russia as an eternal “threat” and “menace” for the alliance with his own repeated calls for a “constructive” dialogue with Moscow....

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Julian Barnes’s The Man in the Red Coat: gently rambling, lightly polemical non-fiction

New Statesman 04 Dec 2019

This more-ish book is best, if inadequately, described as a biography of Samuel-Jean Pozzi, the French gynaecologist ... When he refers to the “swaggery art critic Robert Hughes”, you want to say that as a writer on painting and as a writer of prose, Barnes isn’t fit to polish Hughes’s biker jacket or reposition his bow-tie....