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Scandinavian royals plan get-together in U.S.



(News/Politics)

Statue of Liberty unveiled, by painter Edward Moran NEW YORK (AFP) – Kings and queens from across Scandinavia, joined by the presidents of Iceland and Finland, will join in a royal get-together in New …

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Today’s financial crisis nothing to Renaissance Florence



(News/Economy)

… instruments was against God’s plans for us and could only bring social chaos,” he added. To illustrate his point, Parks points to Dutch painter Marinus Van Reymerswaele’s “The Moneychanger and His Wife”. …

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Korean contemporary art exhibition in Uppsala



(News/Arts & Leisure)

• ‘Time for North Korea to change its course’ • Michael Jackson fans condemn Swedish artist Bae Joonsung, The costume of Painter – Phantom of Museum O, J-2.S.Sargent fan hy with drawing legs, oil and …

4.

Korean contemporary art exhibition in Sweden



(News/Opinion)

… attaché Jin Hong RIM writes ahead of a unique art show. BAE Joon Sung, The Costume of Painter – Phantom of Museum GM, W. House stopp ym, 2009, Oil and lenticular on canvas • ‘I hope Sweden will …

5.

Danes give thumbs down to Bob Dylan paintings



(News/Nordic)

COPENHAGEN (AFP) – Art critics dismissed Bob Dylan as an amateur painter and said his work had no place in Denmark’s largest museum, after the American music icon’s new painting collection opened in Copenhagen. …

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Anders Zorn painting sold at record price



(News/Stocks & Investments)

… the art market is now once again heating up following the global recession. In London Swedish painter Carl Larsson on Wednesday demonstrated once again his international appeal as his painting “Esbjörn” …

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Booming demand for Swedish flags – to burn



(News/Politics)

… start, wholesalers stock huge quantities of cheap cloth and reap handsome rewards. “We are getting bigger orders from scores of painters and printers nowadays,” cloth merchant Mohammad Siddique said. …