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Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 12:20am EDT
SAN FRANCISCO —In almost any city, it’s possible to find a place that looks like a getaway but feels like home. North Beach in San Francisco is that place for me.
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Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:15pm EDT
In this week’s Mailbox: a new arrival at the Prague Zoo, the “Key Statue”, the largest painting in the Czech Republic. Listeners quoted: Steven Bell, Lynda-Marie Hauptmann, Rassem ben Brahim.
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Posted: March 20th, 2010, 12:44am EDT
This was "spring fever" Friday, offering a sunny start to the weekend. And it's got many hoping it's finally safe to put winter in the rear view mirror. On golf season opening day at Dunwoodie Park off-duty cop Keith Miller was putting around and drinking in the sunshine. "It's like a fresh glass of lemonade. You take that first sip and go 'ah!'" Miller said.
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Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:15pm EDT
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first United States museum exhibition of the late works of American artist Andy Warhol (1928–1987) and the first major Warhol survey in New York since the 1989 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Created amid the frenetic activity of Warhol’s celebrity, the nearly fifty paintings on view reveal the artist’s vitality, energy, and spirit of experimentation.
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Posted: March 19th, 2010, 4:08am EDT
He travels the globe training pastors and laity in conjunction with his Leadership Ministries. She often stays behind to turn area houses into exquisite reflections of their owners' tastes and dreams. Together they honor the spirit of it all in a Colonial Georgian style home they share in a quiet Montgomery neighborhood.
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Posted: March 18th, 2010, 2:46am EDT
Officials hope to show importance of culture
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Posted: March 17th, 2010, 3:17am EDT
The trinity of James Innes, Kristi Ryba, and Daphne vom Baur are fascinated by religious art, its history, and perhaps most important of all, how exploring those iconic images can mythologize their own lives. Unexpected subjects and colors give old themes a new look. The results are surprisingly bold and effective. by Nick Smith The trinity of James Innes, Kristi Ryba, and Daphne vom Baur are ...
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Posted: March 16th, 2010, 3:33pm EDT
FrogTape® brand painter's tape is releasing step-by-step how-to videos that demonstrate methods for achieving a variety of painting effects and finishes reminiscent of New Orleans â the setting for Disney's most recent animated blockbuster, "The Princess and the Frog."
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Posted: March 14th, 2010, 11:15pm EDT
PageBreak -- MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“The Drawings of Bronzino.” Through April 18. | “Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage.” Through May 9. | “The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy.” Through May . . .
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Posted: March 14th, 2010, 5:15pm EDT
Crown Prince Naruhito met with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in Rome on Sunday before returning home via the city, bringing an end to his weeklong…
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Posted: March 14th, 2010, 4:02am EDT
To create wonder, John Paul Alexander of Penfield says, art must be filled with small truths, which support the imagination of the viewers.
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Posted: March 10th, 2010, 3:04am EST
A restorer using an ultra-violet light to expose greater details on a Giotto painting in the Peruzzi chapel at the Santa Croce church in Florence.
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Posted: March 9th, 2010, 4:48am EST
Restoration experts have used ultra violet rays to shed new light on masterpieces by one of the Western World's greatest painters.
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 9:46pm EST
A restorer uses an ultra-violet light to expose greater details on a Giotto painting in the Peruzzi Chapel at the Santa Croce Church in Florence.
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 6:16pm EST
Circa 1300, Giotto was the next big thing. Dante mentions him in The Divine Comedy as the artist who now "has the cry". He was more than a trendsetter: he was an original of the most radical type. He began the whole tradition of European painting, transforming it from the flatness of the Greek-Byzantine icon to the rounded solidity of a Roman statue. Realism is the word.
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 2:46pm EST
The steep hills, crisscrossing streets and clustered shops and restaurants in North Beach all reflect the urban delights that make San Francisco distinct. Yet, the level of comfort here reminds one of home, found simply by walking around the neighborhood, sitting in Washington Square or dining in a favorite quiet Italian restaurant.
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 12:57pm EST
* Ultra-violet light reveals centuries-old original details
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 11:40am EST
Restorers using ultra-violet rays have rediscovered rich original details of Giotto's paintings in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence's Santa Croce church that have been hidden for centuries.
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 3:22am EST
Restorers using ultra-violet rays have rediscovered rich original details of Giotto's paintings in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence's Santa Croce church that have been hidden for centuries.
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 1:25am EST
FLORENCE, March 8 — Restorers using ultra-violet rays have rediscovered rich original details of Giotto’s paintings in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence’s Santa Croce church that have been hidden for centuries. “We have uncovered a secret Giotto,” said Isabella Lapi Ballerini, head of Florence’s Opificio delle Pietre Dure, one of the world’s most prestigious art restoration laboratories. Last year ...
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Posted: March 7th, 2010, 2:16am EST
The steep hills, crisscrossing streets and clustered shops and restaurants in North Beach all reflect the urban delights that make San Francisco distinct. Yet, the level of comfort here reminds one of home, found simply by walking around the neighborhood, sitting in Washington Square or dining in a favorite quiet Italian restaurant.
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Posted: March 5th, 2010, 8:34pm EST
Andy Warhol, "The Last Supper", 1986. Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 78 x 306 inches. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Purchase with exchange funds from the Harry A. Bernstein Memorial Collection. Photo: Mitro Hood.
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Posted: March 4th, 2010, 6:19am EST
The problem Richard Hamilton has always faced is that everyone wants him to be Ricky. By which I mean, our Andy, as in, a British Andy Warhol . Hamilton was one of the first guys to collage consumer electronics and interior design and body-builders, remember?
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Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 12:40pm EST
As much curiosity has been dispensed on Amrita Sher-Gil after her death as in her 29-year-old lifetime, but these twin-set volumes of her correspondence, complete with annotations and notes by nephew Vivan Sundaram, come closest to what she might have considered an autobiography.