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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and most respected art museums. Located along Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, the Met's permanent collection has more than two million works of art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and most respected art museums. Located along Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, the Met's permanent collection has more than two million works of art.
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Day trips: Green means beachin' fun in OC and western Md.
Ocean City
St. Patrick's Day Parade & Festival
Spend St. Patrick's Day by the seaside. Visit Ocean City for the 31st annual St. Patrick's Day Parade and Festival, sponsored by Delmarva Irish-American Club. The parade features pipe and drum bands,...Tags: Holidays, Arts, Trips and Vacations, Concerts, Garrett County
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Pacifica concert is the Candlelight prescription
Classical music is said to soothe the soul, but can it calm an upset stomach? Ellicott City resident Dr. Christopher Shih, a gastroenterologist who plays a little piano on the side, is likely to make listeners feel better when he appears as a guest artist...
Tags: Van Cliburn, Ellicott City, Classical Music (genre), Drugs and Medicines, Colleges and Universities
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Day trips: Gliding into the new year
Hershey, Pa.
The Spa at the Hotel Hershey
Enjoy a spa day at the "sweetest place on Earth." Throughout January, the Spa at the Hotel Hershey will be offering its guests the "Champagne Celebration." The two-hour treatment includes citrus oils and a blend...Tags: Arts, Abraham Lincoln, Trips and Vacations, James Monroe, New York City
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Quartet settles into Sunday program with new name
"What's in a name?" Shakespeare once famously asked. Quite a lot, learned the members of the Clipper Mill String Quartet, which plays at the next Sundays at Three chamber music concert, Dec. 4.
The group, which is made up of three full-time members of...Tags: Gustav Mahler, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Music Industry, Theater, Concerts
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BMA guards show their artistic sides with 'Guardists'
Art museum guards don't, as a rule, call much attention to themselves.
The unobtrusive men and women in uniform who ensure the safety of what's on the walls and floors are expected to issue do-not-touch reminders as needed. They'll also direct you to a...Tags: Arts, Fine Arts, Colleges and Universities, F-bomb Dropping, Boston
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Alexander McQueen's 'Savage Beauty' exhibit opens in NYC
'Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty' exhibit in New York
What: An exhibition celebrating Alexander McQueen's contributions to fashion and culture. The British designer, known for dressing the likes of Lady Gaga and Madonna with an edge, committed suicide...Tags: Salma Hayek, Colin Firth, Fashion Shows, Suicide, Alexander McQueen
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Darker nights at the opera
M any an opera plot is set in motion by a wicked curse that generates terrible heartache and loss. These days, it looks as if the real world of opera has been hit with a curse every bit as pernicious.
Although orchestras, art museums, theater troupes and...Tags: Arts, Lincoln Center, Music Theater, Bankruptcy, Anglicanism
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Project Runway: The nuts and bolts of fashion
Reality CheckHey kids! Welcome back to the least consistent Project Runway blog on the internet! One week we're here, and the next week, we're auf weidersehen. (What the hell?) I'm Kevin Van Valkenburg, and although my apologies were wearing thin, I......Tags: Michael Kors, Scott Weiland, Weaponry, Dresses (clothing), Budgets and Budgeting
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Richmond also has a thing about Poe
Special To The SunEdgar Allan Poe passed away in Baltimore during a visit to the city in 1849, and his body is buried at Westminster Cemetery downtown. But Poe spent much of his earthly existence in Richmond, Va., including most of his childhood. So it is only fitting...Tags: Arts, Edgar Allan Poe, Hospitals and Clinics, Election Day, Haunted Houses (attractions)
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Out-of-the-way museums offer hidden delights
Special To The SunSprinkled around Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood are some of the city's lesser-known museums. They are not lesser museums, by any means. But it is difficult to stand out in the shadow of the Smithsonian. So these institutions go about their...Tags: Arts, Armed Forces, George Washington, Japan, Civil Unrest
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A Colorful Life
Sun reporterWhen Grace Hartigan was a little girl, she was bewitched by gypsies. In the 1930s, the Travelers still roamed the countryside in nomadic caravans, and young Grace would shinny up the apple tree in her parents' backyard in Newark, N.J., to spy on them....Tags: Arts, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, Guggenheim Museum, Brain
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Joshua Johnson
Sun ReporterCity was home to black portrait painter Enigma: Joshua Johnson's artistic contributions and his status as a free black man intrigue historians -------------------- Joshua Johnson, considered by art historians and collectors the first significant black...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Minority Groups, Colonial Williamsburg, Bill Cosby, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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