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Topless Arthur painting fetches $1.9M at auction
NEW YORK -- A painting of actress Bea Arthur topless has sold for $1.9 million at a New York City auction.
The painting is by artist John Currin and is titled Bea Arthur Naked. It sold at Christie's auction of postwar and contemporary art on Wednesday. It had been expected to bring in between $1....
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WAG 100: Picasso
Pablo Picasso
La Misereuse accroupie
(The Crouching Beggar),
1902. Oil on canvas.
© Picasso Estate /
SODRAC (2012).
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
The Crouching Beggar is part of Pablo Picasso's Blue Period, which lasted for approximately three years and coincided with the artist's
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At this community art auction (volunteer) time really is money
After purchasing a house last year, teacher Ben Shedden and his wife, Eden, a full-time student, didn't exactly have a stash of cash with which to adorn its "drab" bare walls.
So the Winnipeg couple went to a silent art auction and successfully bid on two paintings by local artists.
The
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Graphic play real story of aboriginal incarceration
A pregnant aboriginal woman who was born in prison contemplates her depressing fate as she prepares to also give birth to a daughter while behind bars.
Jasmine, the prison-garbed central figure in the gritty comic drama Jail Baby, is resigned to repeating family history: "Born to be in prison.
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Paisley's summer tour warms up MTS in October
AFTER Winnipeg endured a long winter, the summer will extend to October, at least if country singer Brad Paisley has anything to say about it.
Paisley's Beat This Summer Tour hits Winnipeg's MTS Centre Wednesday Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. with guest artists Chris Young and Lee Brice.
Tickets are $30.
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Dynamic Duo
Boy walks into a bar. Boy meets girl. The rest of this narrative does not turn out the way you think.
The guy in question is Winnipeg musician Rusty Matyas, a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who's played in dozens of bands, co-fronting the Waking Eyes and serving as a sideman with the likes...
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Obama hosting concert honouring Carole King
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is putting on a show at the White House next week for singer-songwriter Carole King.
She is the first woman to receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress.
The White House says Obama will present the award to King during a
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New songs from K'naan won't be 'safe'
TORONTO -- Somali-Canadian rapper K'naan says lingering disappointment over his last album is pushing him to write and release a new batch of songs.
The Wavin' Flag musician says he's found renewed focus to "be honest" in his work, after playing it too safe with 2012's Country, God or the
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Ex-Groupon CEO Mason 'takin' care of business' with motivational album, plans for new company
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is diving into several new ventures, including indulging his inner rock star with an album of "motivational business music."
Mason said Thursday on his blog that he recently spent a week in Los Angeles and recorded a collection of seven songs
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Paisley tour hitting city in October
After Winnipeg endured a long winter, the summer will extend to October, at least if country singer Brad Paisley has anything to say about it.
Paisley’s Beat This Summer Tour hits Winnipeg’s MTS Centre Wednesday Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. with guest artists Chris Young and Lee
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K'naan working on new songs after deriding 2012 album for chasing U.S. fame
TORONTO - Somali-Canadian rapper K'naan says lingering disappointment over his last album is pushing him to write and release a new batch of songs.
The "Wavin' Flag" musician says he's found renewed focus to "be honest" in his work, after playing it too safe with 2012's "Country, God or the Girl.
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Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles signs up producer Rick Rubin, goes solo
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles is releasing a solo album.
Nettles says Friday in a news release that she is working with Rick Rubin and will release the album in the fall.
Rumours that Nettles would release a solo album have been prevalent for a while. Grammy Award-winning
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Justin Bieber faces bill for monkey's upkeep in Germany as deadline to reclaim it passes
BERLIN - Justin Bieber will face a bill for thousands of euros (dollars) for his pet monkey's two-month stay at an animal shelter since it was seized by German customs, officials said Friday as a deadline expired for him to reclaim the animal.
A spokesman for Munich's customs office said the
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Tim McGraw recasts Academy of Country Music's annual TV special, to air Sunday
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - When the producers of the Academy of Country Music's annual television special approached Tim McGraw about the 2013 edition, the country music star immediately flashed on the program's format.
"They were tribute shows and I certainly didn't want anything to do with that," the
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Dylan adds rock 'n' roll to elite academy
NEW YORK -- Michael Chabon had long been mystified by that Bob Dylan lyric about "midnight's broken toe."
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, the keynote speaker Wednesday at the annual induction ceremony of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was explaining his undiminished passion for
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Seeker lead singer suffers brain hemorrhage
MELBOURNE, Australia -- The lead singer of the 1960s Australian folk-pop group The Seekers is recovering from a brain hemorrhage suffered after a concert.
Bass player Athol Guy told Nine Network television on Thursday that 69-year-old Judith Durham is "resting very comfortably" in a hospital.
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Winnipeg Arts Council honouring Brownstone for lifetime achievement
THE Winnipeg Arts Council will recognize 91-year-old actress Doreen Brownstone with a special award for lifetime achievement at the seventh annual Mayor's Luncheon for the Arts next month.
It's the first time that a lifetime achievement award will be handed out by WAC and it goes to an actress
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How 23-year-old Candice Glover of South Carolina won the 12th season of 'American Idol'
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - With a flawless voice that recalled past "American Idol" finalist Jennifer Hudson and a sense of determination after not making it in previous seasons, Candice Glover did the one thing Hudson wasn't able to do: She won the title of "American Idol."
"I always knew for some
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Indie-rockers the National argue against reputation for sad music
TORONTO - The National's frontman Matt Berninger has heard so many times in so many ways that his band's songs are sad that it eventually became a bit of a bummer.
Even in resoundingly upbeat reviews the indie-rockers have amassed over the years, rock scribes have dug deep for new and creative
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B.C. company buys FAB 94.3, QX 104
A pair of Winnipeg radio stations have a new owner.
The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, based out of Kamloops, B.C., has purchased classic pop station FAB 94.3 FM from Bell Media and country station QX 104 FM from Astral.
The Pattison group has also purchased KooL FM 101.5 FM, an adult
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