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Italy, Florence - Boboli gardens
The Boboli Gardens were laid out for Eleonora di Toledo, the wife of Cosimo I de' Medici. The name is a curruption of "Bogoli", a family from whom land had been bought to construct the garden. The first stage was scarcely begun by...
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The Renaissance - How It Began And What It Represented
No period of history can boast of greater beauty than The Renaissance. This was the period, from approximately early 14th century to late 16th century, that gave us Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Shakespeare. This video looks at...
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The Renaissance - Music, Literature And Theatre
No period of history can boast of greater beauty than The Renaissance. This was the period, from approximately early 14th century to late 16th century, that gave us Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Shakespeare. This video discusses...
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Dream City biennale turns Tunis medina into living work of art
New ReviewFor its tenth edition, the Dream City biennale brings the medina of Tunis to life. The result of two years of work led by the association L’Art Rue, the festival transforms the alleys, houses, and squares of the old city into open stages...
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World-renowned bronze sculptor creates masterpieces in Kamloops, B.C.
New ReviewBusiness is booming for a sculptor near Kamloops who is making a king's ransom working in bronze. Shelley Joyce reports from Knutsford, B.C., where Nathan Scott can't keep up with the demand for his work.
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2025 Turner Prize nominated works go on show
New ReviewPreview of the installations nominated for the 2025 Turner Prize at Bradford's Cartwright Hall. Quotes from exhibition curator Michael Richmond plus works by by nominated artists Zadie Xa, Rene Matic, Mohammed Sami and Nnena Kalu
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Curator says Turner Prize show in Bradford is like having FA Cup final or Oscars in city
New ReviewAn exhibition curator said a show collecting installations nominated for the 2025 Turner Prize at Bradford's Cartwright Hall is like having the FA Cup final or the Oscars in the city.
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Watch: See the world's longest sand sculpture on Denmark's west coast
The world's longest sand sculpture wall can be found in Denmark, at the Sand Sculpture Festival in Søndervig on the country's west coast. Created by 40 artists from around the world, it is 200 metres long, 7 metres high and took 10 days...
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When plastic is welcome
A hardly known side of plastic bottles is their share in art. Apart from being harmful to nature once thrown away, these bottles can serve as inspiration for masterpieces and can be turned into whimsical artworks. T his happened in the...
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Rodin and the art of ancient Greece
The Thinker, the Kiss and many other masterpieces by Auguste Rodin are on display at the British Museum in London . The pieces are on loan from the Musee Rodin in Paris. The new exhibition called 'Rodin and the art of ancient Greece'...
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This Is the World's Most Expensive Piece Of Crypto-Art
"The Forever Rose" was created using blockchain and sold for $1 million. Art, physical or virtual, gets its value from the artist or significance of the art, says Andy Tian, co-creator of the piece.
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Biennale Lyon 2017: modernity via art
Explore modernity via art! “Floating Worlds” is the theme of this year’s Biennale of Contemporary Art in the French city of Lyon. This is the second of three of France’s most important art events examining the concept of ‘modernity’....
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Amazing Rodin in New York
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is honoring the centennial of the French master sculptor Auguste Rodin’s death with a special exhibit. Nearly 50 pieces of the museum’s extensive collection are on display, including iconic works...
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Art exhibits get political following Trump's travel ban
New exhibition of Iranian art opens at Toronto's Aga Khan Museum; New York's Museum of Modern Art takes down works by Western artists and replaces them with pieces by Muslim artists
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Annual festival in Japan features massive ice sculptures
Dozens of displays including 1/3-scale Arc de Triomphe, Star Wars icons
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Dancer Sergei Polunin sits for sculptor Frances Segelman
The dancer Sergei Polunin shot to international fame when in 2010 he became the Royal Ballet’s youngest ever principal. Two years later he resigned saying he had become so unhappy that, “the artist in me was dying.” Since then he has...
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Bugatti exhibition at the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles
Bugatti – the name resonates with car lovers the world over, beauty, class, speed, sex-appeal, these automobiles had the lot. Now some of the classic cars are part of one of the rarest collections in history which has gone on display in...
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Australian sculpture show draws global artists to the beach
Sculpture by the Sea along the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk near Sydney is the largest open-air sculpture show in the world. A visit to an outdoor sculpture park in Northern Bohemia twenty years ago inspired exhibition founder David...
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Christo’s oil-barrel Mastaba dreams materialise in France
For 30 years, Bulgarian-born artist Christo has wanted to build a monumental ‘Mastaba’ – a type of ancient Egyptian tomb – out of oil barrels in the desert of Abu Dhabi. His project has just materialised on a smaller yet still impressive...
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‘The Language of Beauty’ Mayan art on show in Berlin
Sculptures celebrating the human body, precious jewellery, animals and deities are on show in an exhibition of Mayan art in Berlin. Mexican Mayan art goes on tour in Berlin – https://t.co/dzT8ocvhP9 pic.twitter.com/rr59gHpA8q— Vallarta...
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A life-sized Sylvester Stallone in latex
From Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger to Star Wars’ Yoda and Darth Vader, Walter Huaman’s life-size sculptures of famous movie characters may resemble those seen in Madame Tussauds’ museum but instead of using wax the...
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Artistic festival lights up London
Lumiere London features illuminated exhibits in 30 locations around the city
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Ice sculpture show draws thousands near Berlin
Visitors have to stand chilling temperatures but it’s worth it to see this unique exhibition in Elstal near Berlin. It took sculptors from around the world three weeks in minus 10 degrees Celcius to create the statues of ice and sand...
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Macedonian Postcards: Ilinden monument (Makedonium) – Krusevo
In this episode of Macedonian Postcards we’re in the central town of Krusevo. Key facts: Neighbours are Bulgaria, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia & Greece The total land area is more than 25,000 square kilometres Macedonian is the main language,...