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Raising the car

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The directors of the Sydney Festival have asked visual artists, Nam June Paik and Norman Ballard to put up a show at the Opera House, on the prompting of the Public Art Fund of New York, which wanted to show 32 Cars at The Rockefeller Center. It is expected that the viewers would enjoy the show, as the two renowned artists plan a show complete with pyrotechnics and laser beams.

Australia, Strategy & planning, Management dynamics, Management, Planning, Technology application, Fairs and festivals, Company business management, Artists, Sydney, Australia, Company business planning, Performing arts festivals

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Windows to the past

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Some of the works of architect Walter Burley Griffin and his wife Marion Mahoney will be sold at auction at Phillips in Sydney in July 2001. Griffin developed the Prairie style of architecture while he was working for Frank Lloyd Wright, and he went on to win a competition to design the city of Canberra in 1913.

Marketing, Architects, Art auctions, Architectural drawing, Griffin, Walter Burley, Mahony, Marion

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In their own image

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A description is presented concerning the recognition being given to artists including Grace Crossington Smith, Nora Heysen, Adelaide Perry and Claire Becket 50 years after they produced their works of art.

Women artists

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