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on Sat Feb 4 1:45 AM
Revolution in painting of Christ on exhibit
DETROIT -- Seventh-century Dutch master Rembrandt was revolutionary in how he portrayed Jesus Christ in his paintings, according to artwork and information on exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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on Fri Feb 3 10:10 PM
Hungary’s Malev Airline Halts Flights
The money-losing airline was placed under control of a bankruptcy trustee, prompting creditors to begin seizing its planes outside the country.
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on Fri Feb 3 6:30 PM
Qatar Royals paid £158.4m for Paul Cezanne painting
The Qatari royal family has paid £158million for Paul Cézanne's The Card Players, the highest price ever paid for a work of art.
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on Fri Feb 3 6:01 PM
French court upholds Scientology fraud conviction
(AP, February 3, 2012)
Paris, France - A French appeals court on Thursday upheld the Church of Scientology's 2009 fraud conviction on charges it pressured members into paying large sums for questionable remedies.
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on Fri Feb 3 5:16 PM
Puck Goes Back to His (Ginger) Roots
Before he rocked western culinary civilization with Spago in 1982, Wolfgang Puck had worked in his native Vienna and Paris. He went to the U.S. in 1973 and landed in Indianapolis, Indiana, not exactly a gourmand's Mecca -- in fact, it's heartland...
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on Fri Feb 3 5:00 PM
Bringing back Bresson: cinema's patron saint resurrected
TIFF Cinematheque senior programmer James Quandts 1998 retrospective of Robert Bresson films gave TIFF buzz far beyond Toronto. Now Quandts overseen a new Bresson retrospective, which opens at TIFF this week and will tour a dozen North...
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on Fri Feb 3 12:24 PM
Rio delays picking course designer for Games
The designer of the Olympic golf course for the 2016 Summer Games won’t be announced until March.
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on Fri Feb 3 10:45 AM
The Week in Style Blogs -- The Cut
The beginning of February is a particularly depressing time of winter — we start pinning our hopes on groundhogs, for Pete's sake — that cheerful, shiny things like Stockholm Streetstyle's photo of Anja Rubik in gold...
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Guardian Sport Network | Transfer near-misses mean PSG remain a work in progress | Sport
| on Fri, Feb 3, 9:41 AM
Despite having the money to chase football's biggest names, Paris St-Germain failed to lure the stars they really wantedThe clue was in the number. "A press conference will take place on Wednesday 1 February at 15:30 at Parc des Princes to present...
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on Thu Feb 2 9:30 PM
'The Artist' Star Jean Dujardin's 'Sexist' Poster Causes French Fuss
Oscar nominee and SAG best actor winner Jean Dujardin is in the midst of a tempest over salacious French posters for a new movie in which he appears.
Dujardin, who is nominated for Best Actor for "The Artist," appears in an upcoming...
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