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By Larry London Washington 31 December 2007 Hip-Hop artist T-Pain is only 22 years-old, and he has already produced more music than artists who've spent a lifetime in the entertainment field. He's just been nominated for five Grammy Awards. That's
Budding US Artists Strive to Shoot for Stars 初露头脚的美国艺术生勤学苦练 渴望日后大红大紫 At a theater outside Washington, Ari Goldbloom-Helzner is rehearsing the lead role in the stage musical based on the 1980 film Fame. I wa
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: What at first seemed like a standard bit of legalese has now created a controversy. The language appears in the contracts given to artists performing at this year's South by Southwest music festival. Musicians accuse the festival o
Who was the better artist, a caveman or Leonardo da Vinci? It turns out that early depictions of four-legged animals walking are more accurate in some ways than modern oneseven those crafted by the Renaissance master. The study is in the journal PLoS
By Mary Morningstar Washington 17 December 2007 More than a dozen Country holiday albums were released this season. Top sellers include new collections by Toby Keith, Taylor Swift and Diamond Rio. VOA's Mary Morningstar reports on a compilation that'
Nam June Paik Turned Video into an Object of Art Im Shirley Griffith. And Im Mario Ritter with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Nam June Paik is widely considered one of the first video artists. Today, video art is a rich and popular field in mod
Creative New Zealand wants to make changes. At the moment, Creative New Zealand has four organisations: the Arts Council, the Arts Board, Te Waka Toi, and the Pacific Arts Committee. Together these organisations have 55 staff including 28 directors.
An Unusual Instrument for Sale at the Smithsonian Craft Show Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC from VOA Learning English. Im June Simms. Today we play songs from a long-awaited album from the band Phoenix. We also tell about a way to unload unwanted clothin
By Amanda Cassandra New York 26 October 2006 Comic and cartoon art is moving out of specialty shops and into galleries and museums as traditional art venues recognize its artistic and literary value. From VOA's New York Bureau, Correspondent Barbara
Kenyan soapstone carver Elkana Ong'esa has earned an international reputation for his carvings. His sculptures adorn the entrances of the United Nations building in New York and UNESCO's headquarters in Paris. Now a new work will be unveiled soon at
Picasso, Other Greats Created 'Wearable Art' Artists such as Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder and Robert Rauschenberg left behind works of art which are instantly recognizable: Picasso, whose portraits of his lovers merge profile and full face in a di
Anna Wilson Marries Country and Pop on 'Countrypolitan Duets' Country meets pop and jazz on a new album by singer-songwriter Anna Wilson. Anna Wilson taps into Nashville's so-called Countrypolitan era with the help of past and present country stars a
Ryan Tedder, the Busiest Guy in Music Business? Ryan Tedder may be the busiest guy in the music business these days. Lead singer for the band OneRepublic, Tedder also writes and produces hits songs for other artists, last year earning an estimated $2
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The Auckland Art Gallery announced today that they will receive a very generous gift of 15 paintings. The gift is from Julian and Josie Robertson, an American couple who have spent some time in New Zealand for the last 30 years. They said they love N
By George Dwyer Washington 02 November 2007 Afghanistan, a nation once renowned for its artists and intellectuals, has again begun to sprout a vibrant arts movement. For years, artistic expression was stifled in the war-torn nation by religious extre
New Zealand has chosen two artists to represent our country in Venice for the Biennale Art Exhibition, Judy Millar and Francis Upritchard. They will be among artists from 90 other countries. This is the most famous biennale (which means every two yea
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When Pixar Studios creators of computer animated films including Finding Nemo and The Incredibles made Cars, it was a bad sign. That film was supposedly about the value of old things, especially mourning the death of Route 66. But it was really about
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