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The Whitney Museum of American Art has a collection of more than 12,000 works in a wide variety of media. It emphasizes exhibiting the works of living artists. Annual and biennial exhibitions showcase younger and lesser-known artists.
The Whitney Museum of American Art has a collection of more than 12,000 works in a wide variety of media. It emphasizes exhibiting the works of living artists. Annual and biennial exhibitions showcase younger and lesser-known artists.
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In a small world, his dome is still big
Chicago Tribune correspondentNEW YORK — Broke and despondent over his prospects, the young New Englander who had moved to Chicago stared out at Lake Michigan and thought about suicide. But instead, he decided to dedicate his life to helping humanity. That, at least, is one...Tags: Vehicles, Spaceship Earth, Health and Safety at School, Euthanasia, Margaret Fuller
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MOVIES WALL-E. The latest Pixar production features an unlikely hero: a lovable robot designed to haul garbage. Opens Friday. WANTED. Smokin' hot Angelina Jolie trains skinny James McAvoy to be a super-assassin. Opens Friday. See story on page C8....Tags: Stevie Nicks, Nikon at Jones Beach, Lyle Lovett, Angelina Jolie, Pixar
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Jonathan J. Gorrie
Jonathan J. Gorrie, a furniture restorer and musician, died of a heart attack June 3 at Union Memorial Hospital. The Hampden resident was 38. Mr. Gorrie was born in Prospect Park, Pa. He was raised there and in Oxford, Maine, where he graduated from high...Tags: Furniture, Diseases, Queen Anne's County, Heart Disease, Charles Theatre
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Breuer house a lesson on sales
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNEW YORK -- Artist David Diao says, "I was the beginning," and he doesn't mean it in a good way. First he bought a Marcel Breuer-designed house -- a novel home, for sure, designed around a sleek aluminium Spartan Trailer -- on 15 acres two hours upstate....Tags: Furniture, Homes, Chicago Real Estate, Real Estate Transactions, Real Estate Agents
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Turning lawns into salad bars
Sun reporterClarence Ridgley points out to a neighbor the herb patch, the baby broccoli plants surrounded by onions and his mini-orchard. Nothing unusual. These are staples of a backyard garden. But this is a front yard in Baltimore. Drivers slow to stare. All...Tags: Druid Hill, Photography, Architecture
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Can a museum -- even MOCA -- contain this work?
Times Art CriticIf an artist makes art intended to function outside the confines of an art museum, does it make sense for an art museum to present a retrospective exhibition of that artist's work? That's the peculiar question encountered at the Geffen Contemporary at...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Little Tokyo, Faye Dunaway, Sculpture, Building Material
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'Sand' at Parrish, Buckminster Fuller at Whitney
Special to NewsdaySand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor (June 29-Sept. 14 at Parrish Art Museum, Southampton). We play in it, loll on it, build castles out of it, and wash it out of our hair, but what, exactly, does sand mean? Its physical and metaphysical significance is...Tags: Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Biology, Milton Avery, Jasper Johns
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Advice for Artropolis-bound
Tribune criticVisitors to Artropolis—the four-day event of art fairs at the Merchandise Mart, featuring 780 exhibitors and 16,000 artworks—include art professionals, amateurs, collectors, students, tour groups from museums and families with strollers as...Tags: Venice, Merchandise Mart
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Style File: Down under dressing, Gap's new canvas, the first gown
The first gown Admirers of Jenna Bush's Oscar de la Renta wedding dress can get a similar look without going bankrupt, wedding experts say. Bush, who married Henry Chase Hager on May 10, wore a embroidered organza V-neck gown with matte beading and short...Tags: Chuck Close, Family, Oscar de la Renta, Fashion Trends, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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Artworks by noted psychedelic artists go to NYC auction
A collection of original art by noted psychedelic artists, depicting some of the biggest names in rock 'n' roll, is going on the auction block Wednesday. Paintings, printing plates, ink drawings and painted cel vinyls of The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix,...Tags: Folk Music, Hobbies, Eric Clapton, Auction Service, Bob Dylan
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