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Wednesday, 21 August 2019

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Leadership Livingston Class of 2020 announced at State of Parish

The Advocate 21 Aug 2019

The Leadership Livingston Class includes Jeremy Aydell, Sport Clips; Courtney Chaney, Livingston Parish Council; Jim Chapman, Farrell-Calhoun Paint Company Inc.; Chastity Chauvin, French Settlement High School; Jeanette Clark, city of Denham Springs; John Dillon, All Star Nissan ......

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Zao Wou-Ki’s ‘Voie Lactée’ to Highlight Christie’s Shanghai Auction

Barrons 20 Aug 2019

A Milky Way-themed oil painting by Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-Ki will be a star lot at a Christie’s auction in Shanghai this September ... Christie’s didn’t disclose who offered the painting for sale ... A Milky Way-themed oil painting by Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-Ki will be a star lot at a Christie’s auction in Shanghai this September....

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Jeffrey Epstein kept a taxidermied tiger and POODLE in his home office at his Upper East Side mansion, bizarre new photos reveal

This is Money 16 Aug 2019

The painting is reportedly an oil-on-canvas named Femme Fatale by Dutch-French artist Kees van Donge worth $5.9million ... 'The picture behind the desk was very interesting' and painted by 'a decent artist', the trader told the Post. The newspaper reports that the painting is an oil-on-canvas named Femme Fatale by Dutch-French artist Kees van Donge....

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Learning how to relax and enjoy the island life in Mauritius

The Star 16 Aug 2019

Mauritians generally speak two main languages – French and English. “English is the administrative language but we use French to communicate ... When we were there, we managed to catch an acrobatic performance, a lively cultural dance show, a live painting/graffiti show, a water juggler, and a mini concert by a famous French band (Emile & Images)....

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Should Muslims boycott their Pilgrimage?

People's World 16 Aug 2019

According to their faith of Islam, millions of Muslims around the world head to Saudi Arabia to perform the religious rituals of Pilgrimage (Hajj) and Omrah ... Pilgrims for these two rituals bring Saudi Arabia billions of dollars annually ... $450 million for a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, $500 million for a yacht, and $300 million for a French palace ... ....

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Clothes in art: Louvre Abu Dhabi takes kids on a costume adventure

The National 15 Aug 2019

What we do know about the simple but elegant-looking statuette herself is that she’s made from kiln-baked and painted clay ... From Asia, the museum takes its young visitors to Paris, when the French neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres painted Don Pedro of Toledo Kissing the Sword of Henri IV, between 1814 and 1820....

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2019 Shanghai Book Fair opens with over 500 exhibitors

Sina 15 Aug 2019

SHANGHAI, Aug ... 14 to 20, will have more than 100 sub-sessions in the city ... Online reading and audio books are also recommended ... An exhibition on Victor Hugo will be jointly held by the Pearl Art Museum in Shanghai and the Paris Musees, showcasing more than 200 works of the eminent French writer, including manuscripts, paintings and books ...  . ....

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Petoskey News-Review 15 Aug 2019

Entertainment for kids includes a bounce house, face painting and lawn games ... The French called the settlement La Croix or Cross Village ... The FCEC Painting Group meets at 12.30 p.m ... soup and salad bar; noon, lunch is chicken wings, french fries, winter blend vegetables, fruit, bread; 12.30 p.m. painting; 1 p.m....

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Face to face with Mona Lisa, the words Translyvanian vampire flash through my brain

The Irish Times 14 Aug 2019

The world’s most frequented museum received a record 10.2 million visitors last year, three-quarters of them non-French ... Is the painting French or Italian? I venture, anticipating the Afflitto family’s answer ... I spoke to American, Chinese, French and Spanish admirers of the painting, as well as Italian....

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Gods and monsters: how John Flaxman’s drawings made antiquity modern

New Statesman 14 Aug 2019

Flaxman’s figures and graphic style can be found in the paintings of the two greatest French neoclassicists – Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres; in William Blake and Francisco Goya; in the paintings of the German medievalist Nazarenes and Dante Gabriel ......

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Fans think Gordon Ramsay's son Oscar is his 'tiny twin' but do you see the resemblance?

AOL 14 Aug 2019

"Monday mornings with dad" ... 34 PHOTOS. Gordon Ramsay ... (Photo by Larry French/Fox/PictureGroup) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** ... Undated Optomen Television handout showing comedienne Dawn French painting the face of chef Gordon Ramsay with chocolate in a scene from Ramsay's show The F Word which is to be shown on Channel 4 on Tuesday May 8 ... ....

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Shanghai show highlights genius of Victor Hugo

China.dot.org 13 Aug 2019

The Inner World of a Genius, at the Pearl Art Museum in Shanghai, features more than 200 works connected to Hugo, including a painting of Hugo's daughter ... An exhibition featuring French writer Victor Hugo's celebrated creations and related works will take place at the Pearl Art Museum in Shanghai from Tuesday through Dec....

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Dinard: a very British film festival on the coast of France – so what happens ...

The Conversation 13 Aug 2019

Dinard Film Festival The French seaside town of Dinard, which sits on the Brittany coast in north-western France, is known as the “ most British ” of French resorts. Over the years it has attracted the likes of Winston Churchill, who liked to paint there, as well as Oscar Wilde, who wrote of the town in De Profundis, his prison lament....