Artists have painted wall murals in the rooms and hallways, and the 1850s mansion is a surreal backdrop.
If you hang a black flat-screen on a darkly painted wall, it will no longer pop jarringly.
The chief task, entrusted this summer to the 30 engineers at work behind the cream-painted wall at Burnaby, is to turn Ballard from a research laboratory into a mass-production company.
Neither does Boilly's head of an intense young woman or Corot's delightful cow, elegantly silhouetted against the freely painted stone wall of a barn.
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She looked with the in-turned eyes of memory, but it was like looking into a house with every wall painted black.
Throughout the school classrooms are marked with the year their students will attend college, and the alma mater of each teacher is painted prominently on a wall in each room.
Favorites are a recently acquired set of 17th-century Dutch silvered, painted and varnished leather wall hangings, shown with Pieter de Hooch's painting "Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting" (c. 1663-65) in which similar coverings appear.
From my travels over the years, I am convinced that a wave of bottom-up entrepreneurial activism is emerging across the globe, and what I saw painted on that railway wall in Mumbai is just one little facet of it.
There was just the goal he had painted on the red-brick wall beside the house, for noisy football practice.
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's "Soft Shuttlecock" drapes its 24-foot-long painted canvas feathers over a stone wall high overhead.
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No more than 15 minutes after he had painted, he rested a mirror against the wall, arranged the items and lit a large candle.
The main exhibits are the surprisingly large textile wall hangings, most of them vivacious painted cottons, although some are embroidered and block-printed or woven silk brocade.
In the downstairs powder room artist Tracey Price painted a celestial scene on the ceiling and a French countryside wall mural.
The East Side Gallery was created in 1990, when artists from around the world painted more than 100 works on the part of the inner wall that kept East Germans from crossing into the security zone.
Spanning 1.3 km, this is the longest stretch of the Berlin Wall still standing and it is covered in graffiti and murals painted in the euphoric aftermath of Berlin's unification.
Wall Street rallied as Thursday's laundry list of moving pieces painted a mostly happy picture, with roots in Fed's rate cut, coupled with the start of a new month.
The weather service painted a vivid picture in its warning of the destruction it expects: a towering wall of water -- possibly up to 22 feet high -- crashing over the Galveston Bay shoreline as the brunt of Ike comes ashore.
Last Thursday, on the other side of a wall from where Ms. Guthrie worked, Andrew Stewart, head stylist, painted a backdrop for a group of decanters, jewelry boxes and other small goods for the "Little Bit of Luxe" sale.
On a nearby wall hangs "Totem Figure, " a facial relief carved in wood and painted by Cecil Skotnes, who in the 1950s and 1960s presided over a Johannesburg artists' salon called Polly Street that became a training ground for many of South Africa's most influential painters and sculptors.
The labels are informative little essays nicely placed like slanted tabletops, below sightline. (The cartoonish icons for the audio guide, however, are inexplicably placed right next to the paintings on the wall.) And the subtopics landscape and portraiture, what was painted overseas versus what was created back home in America, etc.
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