Orientalist Art : Bidding Rewards The Brave

Flamborough Sculpture Trail Back To Its Best Thanks To Donations

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Walks in Torkshire
Flamborough Heritage Trail

http://www.yorkstories.co.uk/yorkshire_walks/flamborough_heritage_trail.htm

Art Lovers In Miami Beach Hope Sculpture Park Spawns Movement

A piece of waterfront city land in North Beach soon will be transformed into a public sculpture park and its boosters are hoping more art venues will follow.

Pink Floyd : Learn to Fly

Pink Floyd : Wish You Were Here

Time : Pink Floyd

Time (The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973), from Pink Floyd, live at P.U.L.S.E; recorded at Earls Court, London, in 1994. Roger Waters, one of the the composers of Time, is not in this show.
Current members of Pink Floyd are: David Gilmour (guitars, lead vocals) • Richard Wright(keyboards, secondary vocals, backing vocals) • Nick Mason(drums, percussion);

Lyrics:

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun,
but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time has gone, the song is over,
thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.
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Inside Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch

The gates to Michael Jackson's fabled Neverland Ranch swung open to reveal a shell of the fantasyland the popstar had created in his heyday

Email from Ishtiaq Ahmad from the Michael Jackson Memorial

Los Angeles police confirmed today that Michael Jackson's body will be on display as the biggest names in black American music give the singer a superstar's send-off.

Tens of thousands of fans gathered around Los Angeles's Staples Center – the sports arena where Jackson rehearsed the night before his death – for a public memorial show due to start at 10am (1800 BST).

Before then, Jackson family members were due to hold a private funeral ceremony at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills overlooking the city.

But they will not actually be putting the singer, who died 12 days ago after collapsing at his home, to rest.


William Bratton, the LA police chief, said that the gold-plated casket carrying Jackson's body would be taken across town for display at the public memorial.

He did not say how it would get there, but the celebrity news website TMZ.com – which was the first to report Jackson's death – said that it would be taken by helicopter if any safety issues arose.

A total of 8,750 pairs of tickets were handed out to the memorial show after more than 1.6 million fans applied via an online lottery.

The family has already announced that participants will include Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey, Usher, Lionel Richie, Kobe Bryant, Jennifer Hudson, John Mayer and Martin Luther King III.

Also taking part is Shaheen Jafargholi, a 12-year-old from Swansea, who came to prominence singing a Jackson song on the last series of Britain's Got Talent. The singer was reportedly enchanted by the boy's performance and had lined him up to take part in his ill-fated comeback concerts in London.

As Jackson's relatives left the family home this morning for the initial private service, Mr Bratton said that he had deployed an extra 1,400 officers for the occasion. “This is probably the largest event we’ve planned for since the 1984 Olympics,” he told CNN.

Although the event at the Staples Centre is limited to 20,000 ticket holders, authorities feared that as many as 250,000 people could flood the area just to soak up the atmosphere and glimpse the stars appearing in the service and have asked for fans to stay home and watch on TV.

“We have no idea how many people are going to show up here other than those who have the tickets inside the event inside of Staples,” Mr Bratton said. “We’re not anticipating disorderly crowds -- just anticipating very large crowds."

It was not just Los Angeles that was hit by Jacksonmania, however. The memorial show was to be rebroadcast live in theatres across the United States and fans around the world had made plans to say their own farewell to the singer.

In London, some fans planned to watch the event on a big screen outside the 02 Arena, where Jackson was to have performed 50 comeback shows starting next week. Others said they would watch at home after the BBC cleared the schedule on BBC Two.

The cast of West End tribute show Thriller Live planned to hold a minute’s silence before the curtain. The theatre said it would dim its lights in memory of the star.

Show and Sale Offers 'Vast Perspective' on Aviation Art

Ardell Bourgeois’ Hockey In The Duff, which chronicles how Canadians will play hockey anywhere the climate and conditions allow, is one of 25 paintings featured in the Centennial of Flight show and sale taking place at the Greenwood Military Aviation Museum from July 7-21.

Emily Carr Painting Sells For $2,164,500

Emily Carr's Wind in the Tree Tops

OCMA's Quiet Sale of 18 Paintings Raises Hackles

“Silver and Gold” by Granville Redmond is a classic of California Impressionism, an expert says. Another puts its worth at $1 million. The painting was one of 18 that were collectively sold for $963,000.

Old Masters Challenge Contemporary Art

Old master: Madonna and Child, attributed to Bronzino

Leo Mol, Winnipeg Sculptor, Dies at 94

Artist Leo Mol, seen in earlier years in the sculpture garden named for him in Assiniboine Park, died Saturday at age 94. (CBC)

Complete Patrick Watson Show at The Montreal Jazz Festival

Yves Léveillé Sextet With Special Guest Pianist Eri Yamamoto From New York

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Yves Léveillé Sextet - Paul McCandless - TVJazz.tv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmyDOLVBdno&feature=PlayList&p=A420B9D2ADD4DE3B&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=29

Visual Arts Festival is Now in Full Swing

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A Revival of 'Ragtime' Set to Return to Broadway

In this theater publicity image released by the Kennedy Center Press Office, the cast from the musical "Ragtime," seen earlier this year at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. The production will open Nov. 15 at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre in New York.
Kennedy Center Press Office, Joan Marcus / AP Photo

Montreal Jazz Festival Turns 30 With Stevie Wonder and Tribute to Miles Davis

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Man in The Miror

If there is a song which captures the freshness this artist has given to the world of pop music Man in the Mirror is one : it was in 1988 at the Grammy Awards with a Gospel Choir.

Netherlands: Accession to 1970 UNESCO Treaty to Protect Cultural Objects