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Thursday, 14 November 2019

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Fine Arts Paris to expand with new investment, but will it rival the city's Biennale?

The Art Newspaper 13 Nov 2019

... has the same quality of works, and Fine Arts Paris's November dates are much better for our clients than the September dates of Biennale Paris,” says dealer Franck Baulme, whose painting La Rixe (c.1625) by Georges Lallemant, priced €250,000, has been reserved by a French museum....

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When Art enters the realm of AI

Asiatimes 13 Nov 2019

Last year, the art world was stunned when an AI painting sold for US$432,500, and auctioneers are keen to further test demand for computer-generated works ... Sotheby’s will put two paintings by the French art collective Obvious up for sale this week, including “Le Baron De Belamy.”....

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Baker’s brilliant North Strand two-bed for €425k

The Irish Times 13 Nov 2019

In 2014, the third highest volume of sales anywhere in Dublin city was along North Strand ... The old floorboards in these reception rooms have been painted white, which really brightens up both rooms, as does the light flooding in through the French doors in the drawing room, allowing pieces of mid-century furniture to take centre stage ...   ....

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Steps to achieve gorgeous hands with the perfect manicure, right at home

Indian Express 12 Nov 2019

This is achieved by buffing, which brightens, smoothes and creates natural shine in addition, giving you a perfectly prepped base to paint on ... Paint it like a French girl. It is always suggested you apply a clear base coat to your nails before painting to prevent staining....

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'Steal it': Twitter suggests other uses for the Mona Lisa

Independent online (SA) 11 Nov 2019

During every minute of the Louvre Museum's operating hours, tourists crowd en masse to see the world's most famous painting in all its glory ... A lot of people seemed to have stopped reading at the headline and thought Farago wanted to do away with the painting completely ... Verifying paintings, even da Vinci's works, is a hotly contested topic anyway....

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Artist profile: Julie McGowan

The Essex Reporter 11 Nov 2019

After retirement and not having touched a paint brush in forty years, I took classes from Vermont landscapist Andrew Orr, several contemporary Hudson River School masters (including Erik Koeppel and Ken Salas), and one of the New Luminists (William Davis) to learn how to paint landscapes....

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How to make seeing the world's most famous painting less underwhelming

Union Leader 10 Nov 2019

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Over 80 headstones vandalized in Jewish cemetery in Denmark

Cleveland Jewish News 10 Nov 2019

(JTA) — More than 80 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Denmark were overturned and vandalized with green paint ... The green paint was just dashed on the headstones and did not form any words or symbols, the French news agency AFP reported ... Choose from the options below. ....

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It’s Time to Take Down the Mona Lisa

Indian Express 10 Nov 2019

You will find here a cleaner, sprightlier Leonardo — or at least you will in the show downstairs, where four of the Louvre’s five paintings by the artist have been relocated ... Relocated to the Richelieu painting wing, ... The French painting wing was trafficked by just a few visitors....

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DayeTime: Be proud of your French heritage

Avoyelles Today 09 Nov 2019

I am not of French ancestry, but my wife, children and grandchildren are. For that reason, I am quick to defend the Louisiana French from derogatory and erroneous slanders ... Is it a coincidence the answer just happens to paint the French settlers as illiterate bumpkins? ... There is no “anti-defamation league” for French Louisianians....

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In Bucks County, get to know these Pennsylvania impressionists, courtesy of the late Gerry Lenfest

Philadelphia Daily News 09 Nov 2019

They had moved to a pretty place where they could paint the river, the creeks, the woods, pastures, mills, and villages, often in a style influenced by the French impressionist painters whose name they took ... Unlike their French counterparts, who celebrated spring and summer, the Pennsylvania impressionists excelled in their depiction of winter....

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Feature: Dazzling CIIE national pavilions offer glimpse into world's best

Xinhua 09 Nov 2019

A nuclear-powered icebreaker, helicopter, large farm machines and energy engineering projects are showcasing Russia's industrial vigor against a backdrop formed by multiple oil paintings depicting the country's stunning scenery. In the unmistakably French pavilion of blue, white ......

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Let Mona Lisa be

Indian Express 09 Nov 2019

Millions of visitors troop in to the Louvre, in itself an architectural marvel and heritage structure, just to view the oil-on-wood painting Da Vinci is believed to have completed in 1507. Since the French Revolution, this Renaissance masterpiece has been housed here except for a brief period when it was stolen....