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Gold brooch, part of King Croesus' treasure, set to return to Turkey
A 2,500-year-old solid gold brooch -- now on its way to a new national museum in Turkey -- has a back story so rich with mystery and intrigue it makes Indiana Jones’ adventures seem bland. As recounted by the Guardian, the winged seahorse was...
Tags: Indiana Jones (fictional character), Turkey, Arts, Germany, Turkey (animal)
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'The Eye Has to Travel': Fashion icon/editor Diana Vreeland remembered fondly for her self-made life ★★★
For an improbable number of years across the 20th Century, Harper's Bazaar fashion editor and Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland turned every bauble, bangle and bright shiny bead she personally approved on her publishers' expense accounts into something...
Tags: Music, Trips and Vacations, Movies, Twiggy
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Librarians were kids once, too
"From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg Every child fantasizes about running away from home to teach his or her parents a lesson. One summer, 12-year-old Claudia showed me exactly how it could be done, in comfort and...
Tags: Time (magazine), Chicago Tribune, Toy Industry, Literature, Book
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The vision of Vreeland
Decades before the devil wore Prada, Diana Vreeland sketched the job description.
During 35 years as fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar, then editor in chief at Vogue, Vreeland discovered Lauren Bacall, launched Twiggy, championed the bikini, blue jeans...Tags: Arts, Givenchy, Lauren Bacall, Documentary (genre), Barbra Streisand
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Update: Hurricane Sandy forces closures for Broadway, concerts, museums
Hurricane Sandy has forced many cultural institutions in the Mid-Atlantic region to close their doors and cancel performances. In New York, Broadway shows that perform on Mondays have canceled their scheduled evening performances. That includes "Annie,"...
Tags: Mamma Mia! (musical), Hurricane Irene (2011), Newsies (musical), Hurricane Sandy (2012), Arts
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Met Live in HD offering discounted student tickets at select venues
The Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD series will start offering discounted student tickets at select movie theaters starting this season. The first broadcast of the 2012-13 season is Saturday, with a live transmission of Donizetti's "The Elixir of Love,"...
Tags: Culture, Opera (genre), The Tempest (movie)
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How are Romney, Obama connected to the arts?
The Washington PostArt hardly ever comes up as a campaign issue in presidential elections. But once voters decide, the artistic tastes of the first family become well known from the pieces they choose to adorn the White House. Barack Obama has long taken pride in his...Tags: England, International Organizations, War of 1812, Arts, John Adams
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Shopping (sort of) at the Brooke Astor auction
Liz Smith"POWER IS the ability to do good things for others," said the late Brooke Astor, who had power, money and did good things for others. WENT TO Sotheby's the other night to see the treasures of Brooke Astor's Manhattan apartment and her Westchester country...Tags: Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Manhattan (New York City), Brooke Astor, New York Public Library, Hobbies
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'15 out of 15 stars'
All summer long, Printers Row invited kids ages 5-16 to send in book reviews. For the past five weeks, we've published most of the critiques we received, but we couldn't print them all. To see additional reviews, visit chicagotribune.com/printersrow....
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Asperger Syndrome, Harry Potter (fictional character), Museums, Book
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Remarkable people, remarkable meetings in 'Hello Goodbye Hello'
Liz Smith"When Arthur Miller shook my hand I could only think that this was the hand that once cupped the breasts of Marilyn Monroe," says Barry Humphries, the comic Dame Edna. SIT BACK, reader, especially if you're a curiosity seeker, minor historian, and...Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, Peggy Lee, Prada, Noel Coward
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Museum donates photographs to Festival of Arts
The Laguna Art Museum has donated a set of photographs by Paul Outerbridge to the Festival of Arts. According to a joint news release from LAM and Festival officials, Outerbridge (1896-1958) took the four photographs during the period of 1950 and 1955....
Tags: Music, Museum of Modern Art, Arts, Festive Events, Museums
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'The Scream' buyer is revealed to be financier Leon Black
The owner of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" has been revealed. Leon Black, the New York financier and head of the investment firm Apollo Global Management, is reported to be the person who paid $119.9 million for the highly coveted masterpiece. The Wall...
Tags: Frost Nixon (movie), Museum of Modern Art, Arts, The Wall Street Journal, Edvard Munch
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