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Dali painting returns to Beaverbrook gallery

Salvadore Dali’s Santiago El Grande is back in Fredericton after an exhibition in Atlanta, Ga. (CBC) The Beaverbrook Art Gallery’s signature piece Santiago El Grande is back on display in Fredericton after a successful visit to Atlanta, Ga. For the first time since the Salvador Dali masterpiece was acquired by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in 1959, it left Fredericton last August as part of a deal with the High Museum in Atlanta.

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RoboCop statue coming to Detroit

An on-line campaign raised $50,000 in six days to erect a statue of RoboCop in the city of Detroit, Michigan. (Courtesy: MGM Studios Inc.)Despite Mayor Dave Bing’s polite rejections, a statue of RoboCop is coming to Detroit. The people behind an on-line fund-raising campaign raised $50,000 in less than a week when a conversation between Bing and a Twitter user went viral ten days ago.

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Pacino to play Matisse in Deepa Mehta film

Al Pacino is to play Henri Matisse in film directed by Canada’s Deepa Mehta. (Matt J. Terrill/Associated Press) Veteran U.S. actor Al Pacino is to play Henri Matisse in a forthcoming film about the French artist, with the project to be directed by Canada’s Deepa Mehta. Variety reports the 70-year-old actor, known for his roles in The Godfather and The Merchant of Venice, has signed on to portray the French modernist painter, printmaker and sculptor.

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Camera surgically removed from art prof’s head

Bilal hopes his project will act as a trigger mechanism to encourage people to speak about surveillance and voyerism. (Photograph by Brad Farwell. Courtesy: Wafaa Bilal) A U.S. arts professor who had a camera implanted in the back of his head has been forced to remove it after his body began to reject the supports that held it in place.

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Toronto photographer wins Hanson award

Last Updated: Thursday, February 10, 2011 | 5:35 PM ETThe Canadian Press Aaron Vincent Elkaim shot this pic on Jan. 29 of protesters gathered at Dundas Square in Toronto to support the protests in Egypt against President Hosni Mubarak. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/Canadian Press) A freelance photographer from Toronto whose work has appeared in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and the National Post has been named the winner of the second annual Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award.

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Mapplethorpe’s pics secured by L.A. museums

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Trust will preserve Mapplethorpe’s art and archives. Valued at more than $30 million US, the collection is drawn largely from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation in New York.

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Caravaggio show set for National Gallery

Vistors look at Caravaggio’s painting ‘The Incredulity of Saint Thomas’ at a gallery in Germany. Some of the painter’s work comes to Ottawa’s National Gallery this summer. (Michael Sohn/Associated Press) Ottawa’s National Gallery is set to thrill art audiences this summer with the rare chance to see the paintings of Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.

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Stephen Colbert portrait set for charity auction

This portrait of Stephen Colbert, host of The Colbert Report, was enhanced by artists Shepard Fairey and Andrew Serrano in December. It will be auctioned for charity on March 8. (Comedy Central/Associated Press) TV satirist Stephen Colbert is again hoping to pull in a prominent buyer with a portrait set to be auctioned for charity next month.

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Blackwood exhibit honours Nfld. outport life

In a new exhibition Black Ice, Newfoundland artist David Blackwood chronicles the unflinching story of a vanished life in his home province, from a time when men and women struggled to survive against hostile elements. Opening at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto on Saturday, the first retrospective of Blackwood’s work showcases more than 70 prints and etchings that tap into the storytelling traditions the artist first learned as a child. Now 69, he lives mainly in Port Hope, ...

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Google’s Street View takes in art around the world

Google is opening the doors of some of the world’s most famous museums to armchair web surfers. Using its Street View cameras, the world wide web giant has entered 17 museums ranging from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid with the Google Art Project.

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