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Top 3 headlines from around the world  
20/02/08 The Glorious Dead (All Media) (NOA South Africa) (Award)
20/02/08 The Glorious Dead (All Media) (NOA South Africa) (Award - 21 March 08)
NOA All Media Hills are alive with Art (Award 21 March)
Australia NOA - Silk Cut Art Awards - Printmaking (Award Prizes 21 March 2008)

Top 10 headlines from around the world
20/02/08 The Glorious Dead (All Media) (NOA South Africa) (Award)
20/02/08 The Glorious Dead (All Media) (NOA South Africa) (Award - 21 March 08)
NOA All Media Hills are alive with Art (Award 21 March)
Australia NOA - Silk Cut Art Awards - Printmaking (Award Prizes 21 March 2008)
International 25/06/08 Silk Cut Awards (Australia) Printmaking (Free Listing)
21/08/08 Silk Cut Awards (Subscribe)
South Africa (NOA) ABSA Art Atelier Competition (Award Prizes 21 March 2008)
South Africa (NOA) (All Media) ABSA Art Atelier Competition (25 March 2008 Competition - Prizes)
17/10/2007 Banksy, Italians Resist Slide in Art Auction Values (Bloomberg)
17/10/2007 China-s art boom fueled by Asian money (AFP Google)

Selection of the past seven days headlines
20/02/08 The Glorious Dead (All Media) (NOA South Africa) (Award)
20/02/08 The Glorious Dead (All Media) (NOA South Africa) (Award - 21 March 08)
NOA All Media Hills are alive with Art (Award 21 March)
Australia NOA - Silk Cut Art Awards - Printmaking (Award Prizes 21 March 2008)
International 25/06/08 Silk Cut Awards (Australia) Printmaking (Free Listing)
21/08/08 Silk Cut Awards (Subscribe)
South Africa (NOA) ABSA Art Atelier Competition (Award Prizes 21 March 2008)
South Africa (NOA) (All Media) ABSA Art Atelier Competition (25 March 2008 Competition - Prizes)
17/10/2007 Banksy, Italians Resist Slide in Art Auction Values (Bloomberg)
17/10/2007 China-s art boom fueled by Asian money (AFP Google)
27/09/07 Police seize photograph from art gallery (Times UK)
27/09/07 Australia rock art vandalised Marks made by vandals (right) appear on a wall with Aboriginal carvings at a site near Burrup in Western Australia in this photograph made available yesterday (Gulf Times)
27/09/07 Mawkish masterpieces - Millais- lurid colours and trite rhetoric have been despised by critics for years. But underneath all that, says Jonathan Jones, lies a startling emotional truth (Guardian UK)
27/09/07 Art Gallery of Ontario to display Ken Danby-s iconic painting -At the Crease- (Canadian Press)
27/09/07 Judge: Garden was art -WILDFLOWER WORKS I- | Park District may have to pay artist damages Artist Chapman Kelley-s Chicago Wildflower Works in full bloom in Grant Park. (Sunday Times.com)
27/09/07 Laing revives pop art as weapon against war in Iraq (Independent UK)
27/09/07 An Outpost of the Arts, Secured by a Military Dictator (NY Times)
27/09/07 Dave Warwak said he wouldn-t return to the classroom unless Fox River Grove Middle School served only lunches free of animal products, but with meat still on the menu, school officials on Monday fired the art teacher. (Chicago Tribune)
27/09/07 Author creates monument for art guardians (Utecho)
27/09/07 Canadian Art International: In the darkest hour there may be light (Canadian Art)
26/06/07 Police seize photograph from art gallery - A picture by the respected New York photographer Nan Goldin was at the centre of a police investigation into a show at a leading British art gallery yesterday. (Times UK)
26/06/07 Getty to hand back -looted art- One of the world-s wealthiest museums, the Getty in Los Angeles, has signed an agreement in Rome to return priceless artefacts allegedly stolen from Italy. (BBC UK)
26/06/07 South Asian art rakes in $10 mn at Christie-s NY sale (Economic Times)
26/06/07 Netherlands Receives Nazi Art Claim From Jewish Dealer-s Heirs (Bloomberg)
26/06/07 Dutch Government Faces Another Huge Claim for Art (Art Info)
26/06/07 Mass MoCA to dismantle unseen exhibit- Huge display still unfinished (Boston)
26/06/07 Elton John defends photograph seized in -child porn- art raid (Daily Mail UK)
26/06/07 Defying rough terrain, Nigerian female artists create (Guardian Nigeria)
26/06/07 Letters Reveal the Sex Life of Artist Vincent Van Gogh (Fox News)
26/06/07 Fisk University and Museum of Wal-Mart Heiress Agree to Share Prized Art (NY Times)
25/09/07 Warhol, Banksy May Double Sotheby-s October Sales in London Andy Warhol, Banksy and Yue Minjun will star in Sotheby-s October contemporary art sales, which the auction house valued at as much as 68.4 million pounds ($138.37 million), or double last year-s auctions during London-s Frieze Art Fair. (Bloomberg)
25/09/07 Revealed: the eBay Banksy print fraud -Unauthorised prints by the anonymous graffiti artist Banksy have been sold on eBay as limited edition, signed works, by employees of the company which publishes and authenticates the artist’s works on paper, Pictures on Walls (POW). (The Art Newspaper)
25/09/07 Art sales: The -degenerates- who frightened the Nazis (Telegraph UK)
25/09/07 Ten things you never knew about Ophelia - Benjamin Secher reveals the roles of a tin bath, a straw hut and a deformed vole in the birth of Britain’s favourite painting (Telegraph UK)
25/09/07 Art Cologne Clocks 8,500 Visitors at New Sister Fair in Majorca (Bloomberg)
25/09/07 Claimant-s kin fear anti-Semitic backlash from -monster- Holocaust art claim (Haaretz)
25/09/07 Art exhibit in child porn probe Police have seized an exhibit at the Baltic modern art gallery on Tyneside on the grounds it may have breached child pornography laws. (BBC UK)
25/09/07 Baselitz Praises Hirst, Gives Upside-Down View of Art World (Bloomberg)
25/09/07 Speculation in the Art Market? You Bet. (Conde Nast)
25/09/07 Billionaire says he paid the maximum price for Rostropovich art collection (Canada Press)
21/09/07 Crumbling Communists, Mystic Dog Elevate Istanbul Art Biennial (Bloomberg)
21/09/07 Anger over art showing Pope in sex pose (News.com Australia)
21/09/07 Chinese Canvas of Communist Bigs and Baby Sells for $3.1 Mln (Bloomberg)
21/09/07 China-Beijing art fair opens (Xinhuanet)
21/09/07 Seeking collectors in Shanghai, not censors (Japan Times)
21/09/07 Chickens slaughtered for art- Whether it was artistic liberty or plain goriness, patrons attending an exhibition at the Institute of Jamaica on Sunday were left shocked and appalled when, to their horror, an artist slaughtered chickens as part of his display. (Jamaica Gleaner)
21/09/07 Early paintings by Bacon to appear in first major retrospective of his work for 25 years (Independent UK)
21/09/07 Pope’s panties are out–cardinal’s bling is in - Banned: this sculpture of the Pope has been withdrawn from display in Milan (The Art Newspaper)
21/09/07 “Artists are our most useful ambassadors” (The Art Newspaper)
21/09/07 How many more curators will join the trade? (The Art Newspaper)
20/09/07 Chinese paintings may fetch $110m More than 280 Chinese paintings estimated to be worth HK$110 million, including 20 by renowned Chinese painter Qi Baishi, will be auctioned off next month. (The Standard UK)
20/09/07 A journey to the heart of fine art Train stations may be more traditionally associated with delays and bad coffee than fine art, but this could be about to change. London-s National Gallery is to bring reproductions of some of its most famous art works to the new St Pancras International terminal, which is currently under construction. (Guardian UK)
20/09/07 Asian Art Standing Apart Everywhere I go, dinner parties, benefits, the Hamptons, people only ask me about Chinese contemporary art," an art adviser, Kim Heirston, said. (NY Sun)
20/09/07 Sausalito cracks down on art walk booze - The light and airy Sausalito Art Walk has been dealt a heavy dose of reality by city officials who have warned galleries not to hand out alcohol during the event without a permit. (Marinij)
20/09/07 Fat Feet, Chainsaw Sculpture Fill Baselitz Show: Martin Gayford (Bloomberg)
20/09/07 On the offensive Georg Baselitz-s art tackles the visceral reality of postwar Germany with child Hitlers, vegetal phalluses and chopped-up woodcutters, (Guardian UK)
20/09/07 Arts found to ease depression (Net Doctor)
20/09/07 Aboriginal art: worthy but uninspiring (Times UK)
20/09/07 The place of Aboriginal art in history (University of Newcastle, Australia)
20/09/07 Henry Moore: In the garden of delights - Kew is the perfect setting for Henry Moore-s huge late sculptures, says Serena Davies (Telegraph UK)
19/09/07 Russian government played role in surprise sale of Rostropovich art collection (International Herald Tribune,Associated Press)
19/09/07 Swedish artist displays prophet cartoon (Lucianne)
19/09/07 Support reaffirmed for artist who got "barbaric" death threat from Islamist group (Reporters without borders)
19/09/07 Children As Art Collectors - Portland-s Dakota King rolls through her home town-s galleries on a red carpet. "She has such a great eye," art dealer MaryAnn Deffenbaugh told the Wall Street Journal. (Seattle PI)
19/09/07 Alvin S. Lane, Lawyer and Art Collector, Dies at 89 (NY Times)
19/09/07 Outcry over graffiti artists- jailing gathers pace online (Independent UK)
19/09/07 Israeli-Palestinian art show at U.N. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
19/09/07 German cardinal regrets -misunderstanding- of use of Nazi-associated word (The Associated Press)
19/09/07 Painter denies stabbing man to death in drunken frenzy (Gulf News)
18/09/07 Christie-s to Sell $154 Million of Art During Frieze Fair (Bloomberg)
18/09/07 Russia Reveals Rostropovich Art Deal (Associated Press)
18/09/07 Van Gogh monument vandalised AMSTERDAM (ANP) - The monument to Theo van Gogh in the Oosterpark in Amsterdam was vandalised last week. -Al Qaeda- was written on the statue in black letters, the police said on Saturday. (Expatica)
18/09/07 Russioan oiligarch takes home Rostropovich art collection (Karinform)
18/09/07 Russian billionaire buys Rostropovich art (News.Com.Australia)
18/09/07 Swedish Artist Threatened With Death for Mohammad Cartoon - Swedish police have ordered artist Lars Vilks out of his own home telling him it is no longer safe for him to live there. (Chosun)
18/09/07 Rwandan portrait on art shortlist A photograph of a Rwandan woman who was raped during the 1994 genocide has been nominated for the UK National Portrait Gallery-s Photographic Portrait Prize. (BBC UK)
18/09/07 German cardinal faces fury for reference to "degenerate" art (Catholic World News)
18/09/07 -Remarkable- artist from Vancouver feared dead in Thai crash (Vancouver Sun)
18/09/07 A Golden Age, Gobbled Up by the Gilded Age (NY Times)
17/09/07 Sotheby-s Ends Singapore Art Auctions With S$10.8 Million Sale (Bloomberg)
17/09/07 Warhol Self-Portrait Fetches Record Art Price in Korea (Chosun)
17/09/07 The greatest art should not be moving (Telegraph)
17/09/07 Cleric rapped for using Nazi term on art (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY )
17/09/07 Aboriginal art under threat (Sydney Morning Herald)
17/09/07 New record prices set at Sotheby-s for Southeast Asian art pieces- SINGAPORE : An auction of modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art held on Sunday set record prices (Channel News Asia)

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