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Trip inspired wax exhibits
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AN ARTIST has created a haunting display of thousands of wax
figures after visiting refugee camps in the Middle East.
Jane Frere is showing her work, entitled Return of the Soul: The
Nakbah Project, as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival.
Her installation, created following her ...
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The making of a president: scientists and artists build Washington.(INFO ZONE)
Magazine article from: WR News, Senior Edition (including Science Spin)
; ...Washington used to create the three wax figures? In 1785, Jean-Antoine Houdon created...Schwartz, who headed up the creation of the wax figures, says that several historical sources...model became the basis for the three wax figures. * If the bust was made when Washington...
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Weather reporting with Roker.(Celebrities)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Jet
; ...Manhattan. The life-like Roker figure is located in the Do the Weather With Al exhibit. It stands among the nearly 200 realistic wax figures, which bear a duplicate image of some of the world's best-known celebrities. The $50 million Times Square attraction opened...
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Spend it on Beckham.(SPORTS)(soccer player David Beckham)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
; ...famous player, is coming to America. Actually, his wax image has already arrived. Madame Tussauds New York recently, unveiled wax figures of Beckham and his Posh wife, Victoria, a former member of the Spice Girls. Beckham will arrive in the flesh after finishing...
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Ephemeral bodies; wax sculpture and the human figure.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...Toussaud's or Santa Claus candles. Getty research specialist, Panzanelli has selected several essays that examine the history of wax figures, including the first translation of von Schlosser's 1910 History of Portraiture in Wax. Little remains of wax sculptures from...
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Nicolas Carone at Lohin Geduld.(NEW YORK)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...Geduld, the gallery brought a large group of these sculptures to the U.S. for the first time. He also exhibited several small wax figures (mostly headless) and numerous drawings (in the back room). The 25 stone heads, which variously evoke the antique and the...
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The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...These are the two questions the author asks in this fascinating book. From the arrival of Marie Tussaud in England with thirty wax figures to the coronation of Elizabeth II and the advent of mass television, the author describes a past that differs very much from...
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Editorial.(historic development of and social views toward museums)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; A Museum in the American sense of the word means a place of amusement, wherein there shall be a theatre, some wax figures, a giant and a dwarf or two, a jumble of pictures, and a few live snakes. In order that there may be some excuse for the use...
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Classroom use.(Three-dimensional Innovation)
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities
; ...France, and Florence, Italy, although she eventually discovered an interest in sculpture after seeing some 18th-century Italian wax figures. * Having grown up in the countryside, she enjoyed studying Nature. And, it is this love of natural objects that sparked her...
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UAE: DUBAI RELIEF CITY, UNICEF LAUNCH MASSIVE CHARITY CAMPAIGN FOR IRAQI CHILDREN.(Muhammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, Return of Iraqi children to schools)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; ...Humanitarian Works in UAE, in cooperation with UNICEF, are organizing a massive donation campaign for Iraqi children. The campaign entitled Return of Iraqi children to schools is meant for supporting and taking care of the education of Iraqi children who have been subjected...
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Finding Athena.(young FEMINISTS)
Magazine article from: Women's Health Activist
; ...scientists. I could imagine what great contributors to science would represented, How would Margaret, Mead or Goodall look as wax figures? I couldn't wait to see. As I turned the corner that would become one of the most important corners of my life, I saw Albert...
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