Curated Video
Usain Bolt waxwork unveiled in London
HEADLINE: Usain Bolt waxwork unveiled in London
CAPTION: The world's fastest man was frozen in time on Monday, as London's Madame Tussauds waxworks museum unveiled its latest celebrity figure - a statue of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt....
Curated Video
Traditional theatre festival in Tehran
RESTRICTIONS: No Access VOA Persian/ No Access BBC Persian
AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media...
Curated Video
Preview of Toronto International Film Festival
AP Entertainment
Toronto, Canada, 8 September 2011
1. Wide pan of downtown Toronto
2. Pan of street and traffic
3. CU view of Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) sign
4. Cutaway of Director of Toronto Film Festival, Piers Handling, speaking to...
Curated Video
Impressionist masters to be auctioned off
1. Statue outside Christie's New York, zoom-in to Christie's sign
2. Wideshot of gallery interior
3. "Les grands arbres au Jas de Bouffan", Paul Cezanne, oil on canvas, 1885-1887 (estimated to sell for $US12-16 million)
4. Close up of...
Curated Video
USA: NEW YORK: CHRISTIES 20TH CENTURY ART AUCTION
English/Nat
Christie's 20th century art auction in New York on Tuesday night brought in 72.9 million (m) U-S dollars, including 28.6 million (m) for Pablo Picasso's "Nature morte aux tulipes."
The 1932 portrait of Picasso's mistress,...
Curated Video
USA - Preview Of Auctions
New York auctioneers this week are holding a series of sales featuring $300 million worth of Impressionist and Modern art. The annual Spring sales at arch rivals Christie's and Sotheby's will offer works by several major artists....
Curated Video
GERMANY: BERLIN/MOSCOW ART EXHIBITION OPENS
Berlin, Germany, 1 September, 1995
1. Exhibition sign in front of Museum, zoom out museum.
2. Posters in foyer
3. Wide shot Presser
4. SOUNDBITE: (German) Professor Joern Merkert - Director Berlin Museums
5. Catalogue exhibition
6....
Curated Video
USA: COLOMBIAN CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE ON DISPLAY IN WASHINGTON
Spanish/Nat
There's been a meeting of the two America's, north and south, as an exhibition of contemporary Colombian sculptures goes on show in Washington.
A 50-ton crane moved slowly up Washington D-C's Constitution Avenue on Saturday,...
Curated Video
Art inspired by classic Chanel handbags
music on catwalks not cleared for use. replace with your own clearable music
AP TELEVISION - mute
1. Various of archive footage and stills of Coco Chanel
New York May 2, 2005
2. Various of Chanel outfits
3. Mid of Chanel handbags...
Curated Video
Exciting finds unearthed at home of 2014 Winter Olympics
AP Television
Sochi, Russia - 29 September 2010
1. Close of stones being swept by archaeologist
2. Close of stone with turquoise polished surface
3. Wide of Yekaterina Armarchuk, senior research scientist at the Institute of...
Curated Video
Mermaids, angels and even the Eiffel Tower rose up from the beaches of Acapulco on Sunday as part of an annual sand sculpture competition.
Mermaids, angels and even the Eiffel Tower rose up from the beaches of Acapulco on Sunday as part of an annual sand sculpture competition.
Dressed in pink, hundreds of contestants spent six hours carving an array of sculptures for the...
Curated Video
Whether it's hanging from skyscrapers or exploring ancient culture, visitors to Hong Kong's 3D Trick Art Museum are experiencing art in a unique way. 3D Trick Art has long been popular on the streets of Asia, but now it's going to new heights. (June 27)
SOUNDBITE (English) Zaccheus Law, Hong Kong 3D Museum:
"I feel quite amazing when I first step in that museum because the painting they really can do the trick art illusion and I - we can feel a lot of interaction with the artwork so I...
Curated Video
UNICEF Iran celebrates 'Children's day'
Tehran, October 7, 2007
1. Wide of a street in middle-class Tehran
2. Young boy walking among cars in street selling pieces of cloth used for cleaning cars
3. Boy crossing street
4. Pan of UNICEF billboards on Tehran streets...
Curated Video
Moscow Metro unveils art exhibition in one of its underground trains
1. Metro train with highly decorated exterior pulling into Partizanskaya station
2. Mid shot of train with artworks visible through windows
3. Close-up of painting "Holy Family" by Vincenzo di Biagio Catena, displayed inside train...
Curated Video
Bosnia - Sarajevo Entertained
While the world waits for a definite outcome from the Dayton peace
talks, the people of Sarajevo are making the most of the relative
peace the ceasefire has provided. The world of arts and music have
combined forces to bring some much...
Curated Video
Newly-acquired American classics go on show
Washington DC's National Gallery of Art has acquired over 6-thousand works from a collection of famed American classics.
A small selection of the works are now going on show to gallery visitors, giving a taste of what's to come.
The...
Curated Video
Colourful bears painted to represent UN member states
A Rio de Janeiro beach got a splash of international colour on Wednesday ahead of the soccer World Cup next month, with the opening of an exhibition featuring 141 life-size statues of bears painted the colours of each of the United...
Curated Video
USA: ERIC CLAPTON GUITAR AUCTION AT CHRISTIE'S PREVIEW
English/Nat
Christie's New York on Thursday previewed some of the 100 guitars owned by Eric Clapton that will be put to auction later this month.
The auction will benefit a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center founded by Clapton in...
Curated Video
USA: REMBRANDT PAINTING SOLD FOR US$11.5 MILLION
English/Nat
A Rembrandt painting was sold in New York on Friday for eleven-point-five (m) million U-S dollars.
It is the second-highest price ever paid for a work by the Dutch master, according to auction house Christie's who auctioned...
Curated Video
Mini parks springing up in San Francisco
AP Television
San Francisco, California, USA - August 1, 2011
1.Mid of sidewalk with parklet in foreground
2. Mid low shot of people looking at parklet
3. Wide of San Francisco Union Square buildings through metalwork of parklet
4. Close...
Curated Video
Giant, brightly coloured sculptures paraded on streets of Mexican capital
1. Wide of Mexican folk art sculptures known as Alebrijes on parade
2. Mid of marching band with various Alebrijes in background
3. Mid of various Alebrijes on parade
4. Close of Alebrije that resembles spider
5. Zoom out from Alebrije...
Curated Video
Feature on the end of the Broadway strike
++music/video/performance rights must be cleared++
AP Entertainment
New York, 29th November 2007
1. Medium shot tilt up to Cyrano sign
2. Medium theatre entrance
3. Medium box office
4. Close-up person purchasing tickets pull out to...
Curated Video
Christie's auction of post-war and contemporary art
AP Entertainment
New York - May 16, 2007
1. Wide tilt down of Christie's Auction House
2. Pan from paintings on wall : Andy Warhol's "Green Car Crash (left)," Mark Rothko's "untitled" (middle) and Willem De Kooning "Untitled One" to...
Curated Video
Profiles of artists who paint with their mouths
Whittier, California
1. Close of mouth artist Robert Thome grasping paint brush grip with his mouth
2. Close of brush and paint palette
3. Thome positioning wheelchair
4. Various of Thome painting
5. Close of wheelchair moving
6....