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Museums RSS FeedsA look back at Tompkins Square Park - In his new book, Q. Sakamaki, a Japanese photographer living in New York, returns to his early days in the city, focusing on Tompkins Square Park "as the symbol and stronghold of the anti-gentrification movement."...Feed Source: www.iht.com Steal this hook? DJ skirts copyright law - The DJ Girl Talk's rising profile has put him at the forefront of a group of musicians who are challenging the traditional restrictions of copyright law.... Book reviews: "The Lizard King" and "Off the Deep End" - Bryan Christy examines the underbelly of reptile dealing, while W. Hodding Carter look at his dream of swimming in the Olympics.... Ranking the greatest artworks of the twentieth century - The economist David Galenson is convinced that the type of economic analysis that explains the $4-plus gas at the pump can also explain the greatest artists of the last 100 or so years.... Boldly going one toke (or more) over the line - A look at how David Gordon Green, the man who made "All the Real Girls," became the man who made "Pineapple Express."... Learning on the job about birthing babies - The new comedy "Baby Mama" never comes fully to term, as it were.... Film review: 'Bottle Shock' - Randall Miller reconstructs a watershed moment in the wine world's acceptance of California, but the film is unable to figure out what kind of movie it wants to be, and flops around between madcap comedy and rousing drama.... Taking an a indie approach to distribution, too - In a glutted marketplace, some directors are opening their own films.... Sarah Brightman, Lisa Marie Presley, Steven Tyler - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Morgan Freeman discharged from Tenn. hospital - Morgan Freeman was discharged Thursday from a Tennessee hospital after the Oscar-winning actor was treated for broken bones and other injuries sustained in a weekend car crash in Mississippi.... Fashion critic Mr. Blackwell hospitalized - Acid-tongued fashion critic Mr. Blackwell has been hospitalized with a serious illness, his business partner said Thursday.... Tan Dun: Harmonizing music with athletics for the Olympics - Writing music for a major athletic event presented the composer Tan Dun with challenges that commissions for concert halls and opera houses do not.... Tan Dun infuses Western music with Chinese traditions - Tan Dun is a kind of rock star of the modern music scene, and whatever it is that is behind his extraordinary success, it surely isn't innocence ? or a lack of sophistication.... Ambitious Chinese saga 'The First Emperor' premieres at the Met - Music drives the theatrical experience of opera, and Tan Dun's score is an enormous disappointment, all the more so because whole stretches of it, and many arresting musical strokes, confirm his gifts.... Art historians outraged over Berlusconi decision over painting - The Italian prime minister reportedly ordered that a bare breast in an 18th-century piece of art be painted over so that it does not appear behind him during press conferences.... Sci-fi stars' 'Hamlet' wins over British critics - British critics were full of praise Wednesday for a sci-fi tinged "Hamlet" with a starry cast.... Book review: 'The 19th Wife' and 'Steer Toward Rock' - Janet Maslin reviews "The 19th Wife," in which David Ebershoff shows how the same issues have spanned great temporal changes in polygamist culture; Ligaya Mishan reviews "Steer Toward Rock" by Fae Myenne Ng, a narrative that starts in the 1950s but grows out of the history of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.... Scarlett Johansson, Maya Angelou, Kelsey Grammer - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Sci-fi stars' 'Hamlet' wins over British critics - British critics were full of praise Wednesday for a sci-fi tinged "Hamlet" with a starry cast.... Wahlberg to make cameo appearance on 'Entourage' - Fall is full for Mark Wahlberg.... Film on 'The Germs' brings a punk band back to life - The film, "What We Do Is Secret," cast Shane West as the late singer Darby Crash and in the process restarted his band.... An Olympic stadium worth remembering - China's Olympic stadium, pictured above, reaffirms architecture's civilizing role in a nation that is struggling to forge a new identity out of a maelstrom of inner conflict.... 'Baghdad High': 4 young Iraqis show the fabric of their lives - A Sunni, a Shiite, a Kurd and a Christian, handed cameras, chronicle their senior year.... Doris Lessing looks back on shadows and parents - Lessing once declared that "fiction makes a better job of the truth" than straightforward reminiscence. This observation does not apply to her latest book.... Questions you should never ask a writer - Some strong thoughts about political correctness.... Doris Lessing receives Nobel Prize in Literature - Lessing has written candidly about the inner lives of women and rejected the notion that they should abandon their own lives to marriage and children. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy called her an "epicist of the female experience."... Natalie Dessay, Renée Fleming, Morgan Freeman - A round-up of the day's celebrity news.... Dallas Opera co-founder Rescigno dies in Italy - Nicola Rescigno, the co-founder of the Dallas Opera and one of Maria Callas' favorite conductors, has died at a hospital in Italy, officials said Tuesday. He was 92.... "Brangelina" babies finally unveiled on Web - The most famous babies on the planet, the latest spawn of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, made their world premiere on the Internet on Sunday, having outfoxed the paparazzi since they were born three weeks ago.... Reverence but no outpouring for Solzhenitsyn - The response raised the question of whether Alexander Solzhenitsyn's work still resonates in today's Russia.... Solzhenitsyn, 20th-century oracle, dies - The Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose literary struggles revealed the afflictions of Soviet Communism, died late on Sunday in Moscow at 89.... Paul Lansky: An electronic-music pioneer pulls the plug - The composer Paul Lansky's shift from writing computer music to more traditional composition is emblematic of the field's disintegration, at least from the way it was constructed even a decade ago.... With Flemish nationalism on the rise, Belgium teeters on the edge - In its escalating dysfunction, Belgium demonstrates the inextricable link between culture and nationhood.... Maria Bello, Chace Crawford, Salman Rushdie - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Murdoch says UK TV advertising holding up - News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch said television advertising in the United States was good, despite a slowing economy, while Asia was a long-term bet driven by the emergence of a wealthy middle class.... "Brangelina" babies finally unveiled on Web - The most famous babies on the planet, the latest spawn of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, made their world premiere on the Internet on Sunday, having outfoxed the paparazzi since they were born three weeks ago.... For Luca Veggetti, a fresh dance of independence - The Italian choreographer Luca Veggetti, who has long identified with what he calls the distinctly American sense of freedom, is creating a 15-minute quartet that's to premiere in January in New York.... Book Reviews: 'The Gargoyle' and 'So Long at the Fair' - In Andrew Davidson's "The Gargoyle," a terrible burn leads to a relationship with a visitor to the hospital; and Christina Schwarz's 'So Long at the Fair' tells of passion and infidelity moving through two generations of a Wisconsin family.... Philippe Starck is tilting toward windmills - Starck is battling on a new front - developing cheap, attractive, energy-saving products to "introduce everybody to ecology."... A week at the beach, with a divorce imminent - In 'Bottomless Belly Button,' Dash Shaw's engrossing 720-page graphic novel, three generations of the Loony family spend a week together at their beach house coping with the divorce of the clan's grandparents.... In Japan, dressing up from toe to toe - One of the first things the foreign visitor notices in Japan is the immense importance attached to socks - and the vast range of foot coverings available in every shape and form.... Fantasies of the East, lacking accuracy and understanding - "The Lure of the East," on view at Tate Britain until Aug. 31, reveals the switch from yearning admiration to triumphalist contempt that took place as Britain, in particular, and Europe, more generally, moved from fearful cohabitation to colonial conquest.... 'Iron Fists': The insidious side of brand loyalty - Steven Heller's "Iron Fists" makes a sophisticated and visually arresting comparison between modern corporate-branding strategies - slogans, mascots, jingles and the rest - and those adopted by "four of the most destructive 20th-century totalitarian regimes."... Murdoch says UK TV advertising holding up - News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch said television advertising in the United States was good, despite a slowing economy, while Asia was a long-term bet driven by the emergence of a wealthy middle class.... Lee Israel's 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' - While writing as Noël Coward, Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber and, most convincingly, Louise Brooks, Lee Israel remained more an enhancer than an outright fabricator.... From a forger, an unapologetic memoir - Despite her admitted fakery of more than 400 letters, Lee Israel insists that her own memoir is true to the facts.... Sylvain Trudel's 'Mercury Under My Tongue' - Sylvain Trudel's acid novel "Mercury Under My Tongue," tartly translated from the French by Sheila Fischman, is a tale told by a 16-year-old named Frédéric Langlois who is dying of bone cancer in a Montreal hospital.... Sam Raimi, J.K. Rowling, Aretha Franklin - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Indonesia rediscovers its own rock legend - It took a half century and YouTube to bring Indonesia's rock 'n roll legends back home.... Ludacris' Obama song unlikely to alienate voters - Ludacris' new song, "Politics as Usual," may have cost him one of his biggest fans, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.... Sometimes singing in English, but with a gallic (and goofy) savoir-faire - Sébastien Tellier is firmly in the line of French songwriters who wrap their pop tunes in parody, lest anyone think they are unsophisticated enough to be nearly sincere.... Ammon Shea's 'Reading the OED' - Ammon Shea, a sometime furniture mover, gondolier and word collector, has written an oddly inspiring book about reading the whole of the Oxford English Dictionary in one go.... In strangers, a centenarian finds literary lifeline - A cadre of devoted friends read to Elizabeth Goodyear, who is 101, blind and confined to her Manhattan apartment.... Julia Reed's 'The House on First Street' - Against all the odds, I enjoyed this book; a critique of New Orleans's 'rich flavor,' and a Hurricane Katrina memoir. The author strikes me as a decent egg, for one thing, and we certainly agree about what makes New Orleans worthwhile.... 'Swing Vote': When a presidential election hinges on a drunk in a dying town - In a film that swings between light comedy and dark thoughts, Kevin Costner plays a good ole drunk, trapped in a town that's more Dust Bowl Hooverville than Capraesque, whose vote will decide the American presidency.... A look back at Tompkins Square Park - In his new book, Q. Sakamaki, a Japanese photographer living in New York, returns to his early days in the city, focusing on Tompkins Square Park "as the symbol and stronghold of the anti-gentrification movement."... Steal this hook? DJ skirts copyright law - The DJ Girl Talk's rising profile has put him at the forefront of a group of musicians who are challenging the traditional restrictions of copyright law.... Book reviews: "The Lizard King" and "Off the Deep End" - Bryan Christy examines the underbelly of reptile dealing, while W. Hodding Carter look at his dream of swimming in the Olympics.... Ranking the greatest artworks of the twentieth century - The economist David Galenson is convinced that the type of economic analysis that explains the $4-plus gas at the pump can also explain the greatest artists of the last 100 or so years.... Boldly going one toke (or more) over the line - A look at how David Gordon Green, the man who made "All the Real Girls," became the man who made "Pineapple Express."... Learning on the job about birthing babies - The new comedy "Baby Mama" never comes fully to term, as it were.... Film review: 'Bottle Shock' - Randall Miller reconstructs a watershed moment in the wine world's acceptance of California, but the film is unable to figure out what kind of movie it wants to be, and flops around between madcap comedy and rousing drama.... Taking an a indie approach to distribution, too - In a glutted marketplace, some directors are opening their own films.... Sarah Brightman, Lisa Marie Presley, Steven Tyler - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Morgan Freeman discharged from Tenn. hospital - Morgan Freeman was discharged Thursday from a Tennessee hospital after the Oscar-winning actor was treated for broken bones and other injuries sustained in a weekend car crash in Mississippi.... Fashion critic Mr. Blackwell hospitalized - Acid-tongued fashion critic Mr. Blackwell has been hospitalized with a serious illness, his business partner said Thursday.... Tan Dun: Harmonizing music with athletics for the Olympics - Writing music for a major athletic event presented the composer Tan Dun with challenges that commissions for concert halls and opera houses do not.... Tan Dun infuses Western music with Chinese traditions - Tan Dun is a kind of rock star of the modern music scene, and whatever it is that is behind his extraordinary success, it surely isn't innocence ? or a lack of sophistication.... Ambitious Chinese saga 'The First Emperor' premieres at the Met - Music drives the theatrical experience of opera, and Tan Dun's score is an enormous disappointment, all the more so because whole stretches of it, and many arresting musical strokes, confirm his gifts.... Art historians outraged over Berlusconi decision over painting - The Italian prime minister reportedly ordered that a bare breast in an 18th-century piece of art be painted over so that it does not appear behind him during press conferences.... Sci-fi stars' 'Hamlet' wins over British critics - British critics were full of praise Wednesday for a sci-fi tinged "Hamlet" with a starry cast.... Book review: 'The 19th Wife' and 'Steer Toward Rock' - Janet Maslin reviews "The 19th Wife," in which David Ebershoff shows how the same issues have spanned great temporal changes in polygamist culture; Ligaya Mishan reviews "Steer Toward Rock" by Fae Myenne Ng, a narrative that starts in the 1950s but grows out of the history of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.... Scarlett Johansson, Maya Angelou, Kelsey Grammer - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Sci-fi stars' 'Hamlet' wins over British critics - British critics were full of praise Wednesday for a sci-fi tinged "Hamlet" with a starry cast.... Wahlberg to make cameo appearance on 'Entourage' - Fall is full for Mark Wahlberg.... Film on 'The Germs' brings a punk band back to life - The film, "What We Do Is Secret," cast Shane West as the late singer Darby Crash and in the process restarted his band.... An Olympic stadium worth remembering - China's Olympic stadium, pictured above, reaffirms architecture's civilizing role in a nation that is struggling to forge a new identity out of a maelstrom of inner conflict.... 'Baghdad High': 4 young Iraqis show the fabric of their lives - A Sunni, a Shiite, a Kurd and a Christian, handed cameras, chronicle their senior year.... Doris Lessing looks back on shadows and parents - Lessing once declared that "fiction makes a better job of the truth" than straightforward reminiscence. This observation does not apply to her latest book.... Questions you should never ask a writer - Some strong thoughts about political correctness.... Doris Lessing receives Nobel Prize in Literature - Lessing has written candidly about the inner lives of women and rejected the notion that they should abandon their own lives to marriage and children. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy called her an "epicist of the female experience."... Natalie Dessay, Renée Fleming, Morgan Freeman - A round-up of the day's celebrity news.... Dallas Opera co-founder Rescigno dies in Italy - Nicola Rescigno, the co-founder of the Dallas Opera and one of Maria Callas' favorite conductors, has died at a hospital in Italy, officials said Tuesday. He was 92.... "Brangelina" babies finally unveiled on Web - The most famous babies on the planet, the latest spawn of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, made their world premiere on the Internet on Sunday, having outfoxed the paparazzi since they were born three weeks ago.... Reverence but no outpouring for Solzhenitsyn - The response raised the question of whether Alexander Solzhenitsyn's work still resonates in today's Russia.... Solzhenitsyn, 20th-century oracle, dies - The Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose literary struggles revealed the afflictions of Soviet Communism, died late on Sunday in Moscow at 89.... Paul Lansky: An electronic-music pioneer pulls the plug - The composer Paul Lansky's shift from writing computer music to more traditional composition is emblematic of the field's disintegration, at least from the way it was constructed even a decade ago.... With Flemish nationalism on the rise, Belgium teeters on the edge - In its escalating dysfunction, Belgium demonstrates the inextricable link between culture and nationhood.... Maria Bello, Chace Crawford, Salman Rushdie - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Murdoch says UK TV advertising holding up - News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch said television advertising in the United States was good, despite a slowing economy, while Asia was a long-term bet driven by the emergence of a wealthy middle class.... "Brangelina" babies finally unveiled on Web - The most famous babies on the planet, the latest spawn of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, made their world premiere on the Internet on Sunday, having outfoxed the paparazzi since they were born three weeks ago.... For Luca Veggetti, a fresh dance of independence - The Italian choreographer Luca Veggetti, who has long identified with what he calls the distinctly American sense of freedom, is creating a 15-minute quartet that's to premiere in January in New York.... Book Reviews: 'The Gargoyle' and 'So Long at the Fair' - In Andrew Davidson's "The Gargoyle," a terrible burn leads to a relationship with a visitor to the hospital; and Christina Schwarz's 'So Long at the Fair' tells of passion and infidelity moving through two generations of a Wisconsin family.... Philippe Starck is tilting toward windmills - Starck is battling on a new front - developing cheap, attractive, energy-saving products to "introduce everybody to ecology."... A week at the beach, with a divorce imminent - In 'Bottomless Belly Button,' Dash Shaw's engrossing 720-page graphic novel, three generations of the Loony family spend a week together at their beach house coping with the divorce of the clan's grandparents.... In Japan, dressing up from toe to toe - One of the first things the foreign visitor notices in Japan is the immense importance attached to socks - and the vast range of foot coverings available in every shape and form.... Fantasies of the East, lacking accuracy and understanding - "The Lure of the East," on view at Tate Britain until Aug. 31, reveals the switch from yearning admiration to triumphalist contempt that took place as Britain, in particular, and Europe, more generally, moved from fearful cohabitation to colonial conquest.... 'Iron Fists': The insidious side of brand loyalty - Steven Heller's "Iron Fists" makes a sophisticated and visually arresting comparison between modern corporate-branding strategies - slogans, mascots, jingles and the rest - and those adopted by "four of the most destructive 20th-century totalitarian regimes."... Murdoch says UK TV advertising holding up - News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch said television advertising in the United States was good, despite a slowing economy, while Asia was a long-term bet driven by the emergence of a wealthy middle class.... Lee Israel's 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' - While writing as Noël Coward, Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber and, most convincingly, Louise Brooks, Lee Israel remained more an enhancer than an outright fabricator.... From a forger, an unapologetic memoir - Despite her admitted fakery of more than 400 letters, Lee Israel insists that her own memoir is true to the facts.... Sylvain Trudel's 'Mercury Under My Tongue' - Sylvain Trudel's acid novel "Mercury Under My Tongue," tartly translated from the French by Sheila Fischman, is a tale told by a 16-year-old named Frédéric Langlois who is dying of bone cancer in a Montreal hospital.... Sam Raimi, J.K. Rowling, Aretha Franklin - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Indonesia rediscovers its own rock legend - It took a half century and YouTube to bring Indonesia's rock 'n roll legends back home.... Ludacris' Obama song unlikely to alienate voters - Ludacris' new song, "Politics as Usual," may have cost him one of his biggest fans, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.... Sometimes singing in English, but with a gallic (and goofy) savoir-faire - Sébastien Tellier is firmly in the line of French songwriters who wrap their pop tunes in parody, lest anyone think they are unsophisticated enough to be nearly sincere.... Ammon Shea's 'Reading the OED' - Ammon Shea, a sometime furniture mover, gondolier and word collector, has written an oddly inspiring book about reading the whole of the Oxford English Dictionary in one go.... In strangers, a centenarian finds literary lifeline - A cadre of devoted friends read to Elizabeth Goodyear, who is 101, blind and confined to her Manhattan apartment.... Julia Reed's 'The House on First Street' - Against all the odds, I enjoyed this book; a critique of New Orleans's 'rich flavor,' and a Hurricane Katrina memoir. The author strikes me as a decent egg, for one thing, and we certainly agree about what makes New Orleans worthwhile.... 'Swing Vote': When a presidential election hinges on a drunk in a dying town - In a film that swings between light comedy and dark thoughts, Kevin Costner plays a good ole drunk, trapped in a town that's more Dust Bowl Hooverville than Capraesque, whose vote will decide the American presidency.... Events at the Old Operating Theatre Museum - The latest events held by the Museum... Grants received by the Old Operating Theatre Museum - Details of grants and projects undertaken by the Museum ... Development Plan for the Old Operating Theatre Museum - Opportunity to look at the plans to improve the Museum - could we purchase the Church below the herb Garret?... News from the Old Operating Theatre Museum - News from our Home Page... History of Medicine Pages - Major rewrite of the History of Medicine Page ... Latest Press Releases from the Museum - The latest press releases from the Old Operating Theatre Museum ... Copyright © 2008, Real Estate Investment Tips. All Rights Reserved. |