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Stars including Beyonce, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake attend the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala
It's known as one of the most glamorous red carpets of the year, with movie stars, models and even a few star football quarterbacks putting on their most fashion-forward outfits for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute...
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British cannon recovered from 200 years at bottom of Detroit River is on display
A British cannon that sat at the bottom of the Detroit River for more than two centuries was put on display at a local museum on Wednesday after undergoing a three-year restoration.
Dan Rademaker, the Detroit police diver who discovered...
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US exhibit celebrates European art
1. Wide pan of exhibit
2. People looking at Velasquez paintings
3. Close-up of "Democritus" by Velasquez
4. People looking at Velasquez works
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gary Tinterow, Curator of 19th Century European Painting, Metropolitan...
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WRAP Waxwork figures of US President- elect unveiled
London, UK
1. Wide exterior of Madame Tussauds
2. Media at display for US President-elect Barack Obama wax figure
3. Wide of Obama wax figure standing in mock Oval office
4. Various of Obama figure
5. Tilt up from mock US presidential...
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Artist Marc Chagall celebrated in his home town
Marc Chagall spent most of his life in France and was considered to be a French painter during the Soviet era.
But in the period after his death in 1985 Chagall's homeland of Belarus embraced the artist as their own.
The Chagall Art...
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The phones used to make the world's first coast-to-coast conference call 100 year ago have been put on display at the California Historical Society's 1915 World's Fair exhibit space in San Francisco. (Jan. 22)
A century before the selfie, and long before phones were smart, the world's first coast-to-coast conference call was made on January 25, 1915.
To commemorate the centennial anniversary of that event, the original phones used to make the...
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A major new Picasso exhibit opens across three museums in Paris
Paris, 7 October 2008
1. Various exterior of Grand Palais in Paris
2. Pan on exhibition poster with Picasso still
3. Wide of exhibit
4. Medium shot of Picasso Portrait de Lee Miller en Arlesienne next to Vincent Van Gogh L'Arlesienne
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Contemporary exhibits like Eric Church's boots and Taylor Swift's tour bus added to Country Music Hall of Fame
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tenn., is no longer bursting at the seams, thanks to a $100 million (USD) expansion that has more than doubled its space and allowed it to add more interactive and contemporary...
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Museum presents natural history exhibition alongside major art works
This week, Madrid's Prado Museum presents a curious series of installations juxtaposing the museum's major art works with the original idea for the building's use as a natural history museum.
When it was commissioned by Charles III in...
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Birthday of Jane Austen - ahead of 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice
AP Television
Chawton, Hampshire, U.K - 22 October 2012
1. Mid shot exterior Jane Austen's house
2. Cutaway leaves on tree
3. Wide village of Chawton pan to Jane Austen's House
4. Close up sign pointing to Jane Austen's House
5. Tilt...
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Adolf Hitler's last known album of artworks stolen by the Nazis during World War II is being donated to the National Archives to mark the anniversary of the war's end in Europe. (May 8)
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Adolf Hitler's last known album of artworks stolen by the Nazis during World War II is being donated to the National Archives to mark the anniversary of the war's end in Europe.
The...
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New French exhibition celebrates the night
All things that go bump in the night are being revealed at a special exhibition to raise our awareness about nocturnal creatures.
Curators at Paris' National Museum of Natural History say their aim is to get everyone interested in the...
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Picasso Museum prepares to open five years after closing for renovation
The Picasso museum in Paris is preparing to reopen its doors to the public after being closed for five years for renovation and expansion - time that has been fraught with setbacks and dismissals.
When the museum officially opens on 25...
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Apple founder's home gets historical designation
The Silicon Valley home where Apple co-founder Steve Jobs grew up and built some of his first computers is now on the city's list of historic properties.
The historical commission in the city of Los Altos voted unanimously for the...
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Controversial exhibit previewed at Jewish Museum in NY
APTN - 13 March 2002
1. Wide shot interior exhibit space at Jewish Museum, shows sculpted clay heads by Christine Borland, "L'Homme Double", all depicting Nazi criminal Josef Mengele
2. Close up detail of Rudolf Herz's "Zugzwang", a room...
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The Victory Belles, a New Orleans dance troupe, help World War II veterans recall the good times of the 1940's. Their performances at the National World War II Museum bring big band songs and long forgotten memories back to life. (Dec. 5)
SOUNDBITE: Forrest Villarrubia, WWII Veteran
"I teared (laughing) bringing back many, many memories, many, many."
SOUNDBITE: Mandi Ridgdell, Victory Belle:
"To bring that back and to remind them of those times is an incredible feeling."...
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The Marley legacy lives on in the music in Jamaica
music/video/performance rights must be cleared
AP Television
Kingston, Jamaica - June 17th 2009
1. Wide of Bob Marley statue
2. Close up of Bob Marley statue
3. Wide shot Bob Marley's house / museum
4. Mid of Bob Marley graffiti
5. Close...
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Preview of opening of memorial to gays killed by Nazis
1. Wide of memorial
2. Mid of artists
3. Close of man taking photograph through memorial window
4. Wide of memorial
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ingar Dragset, memorial designer:
"We proposed to make a concrete stele, a concrete slab that is...
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Totem pole building revived in Canada
AP Television
First Nations Longhouse, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC, Canada - 22 August 2012
1. Wide tilt down on Haida totem pole carver, Clarence Mills, drawing on Thunderbird totem pole.
2. Medium over the shoulder shot of Mills...
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Bush on first anniversary + Laura donates dress to museum
January 20, 2002
1. Wide shot presidential helicopter landing
2. US President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush getting off helicopter and walking to White House
3. Bush speaking to reporters
4. White House
January 20, 2002
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Speech soundbites - Jeremy Corbyn endorsed as Labour Leader by half of UB40, Robin Campbell
Speech soundbites - Jeremy Corbyn endorsed as Labour Leader by half of UB40, Robin Campbell
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Stolen Matisse painting unveiled at National Gallery
A stolen Henri Matisse painting recovered by the Venezuelan authorities was unveiled at National Gallery in Caracas on Tuesday (8JULY).
Venezuela's Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz sought US cooperation in the investigation of the...
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Charles and Camilla continue visit, adds couple in British embassy
Washington, D.C. - 3 November, 2005
1. Prince Charles and wife the Duchess of Cornwall arrive at National Building Museum
2. Pan from ceiling to press conference
3. Charles walks to stage
4. SOUNDBITE (English): Charles, Prince of...
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Putin included in Session of State Council artwork
1. Wide of Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2. Poster stand outside museum
3. Wide of exhibition hall, people in front of the painting "The session at the Federation Council"
4. Close up of woman looking at painting
5. Wide of painting
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