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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a modern art museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It was founded in 1937 to showcase avant-garde art. Its current location ¿ designed by Frank Lloyd Wright ¿ was opened in 1959.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a modern art museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It was founded in 1937 to showcase avant-garde art. Its current location ¿ designed by Frank Lloyd Wright ¿ was opened in 1959.
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The List: Art
Martin Kersels: Heavyweight Champion
That title may be the perfect tongue-in-cheek label for this retrospective of a 6-foot, 7-inch, 350-pound artist who presents himself as a hilariously creative lummox. A fan of Buster Keaton and a student of Paul...Tags: Natural Resources, Wildlife, Clothing and Textiles Industry, August Sander, Museum of Modern Art
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NY's Guggenheim Museum poised to hire new director
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is on the verge of hiring the outgoing director of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art as the new head of its flagship museum in Manhattan and satellite branches around the world. Richard Armstrong would replace...Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, Contracts, Alexis Smith, Society, Venice
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Wright's Taliesin showcases 'organic' architecture
Associated Press WriterThousands come each year to the Wisconsin River valley where Frank Lloyd Wright built his home and tested his ideas about building in harmony with nature. Nestled on a hillside overlooking the river, Wright's Taliesin has the cantilever roofs, wide...Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, Architecture, Christianity, Lakewood, Wisconsin
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Corrections and clarifications, Aug. 28, 2008
•A story in the main news section Tuesday was accompanied by a list of kosher restaurants in Chicago that mistakenly included the Jerusalem Kosher Restaurant on West Devon Avenue. The restaurant has closed. •A caption in Transportation Aug....Tags: Devon Avenue, Restaurant and Catering Industry, New York
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Architect Gehry won't continue NYC theater project
Architect Frank Gehry will no longer be involved in the design of a new building in Brooklyn for the Theatre for a New Audience. The theater's founder says the change is due to Gehry's packed schedule and the need to finish the building's design in...Tags: Theater, Fort Greene
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TOURS & MORE
TOURS Ritz Tours' "Thailand in a Week" getaway offers air transportation, eight days of accommodations and sightseeing with visits to the Grand Palace and the jungle for an up-close look at elephants in their natural habitat. Rates start at $1,699 a...Tags: Beach Vacations, Baltimore Orioles, Major League Baseball, Tourism and Leisure, Beverage Industry
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Broadway a big hit for Verdugo Hills High drama students
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNew York Behold America's theater capital, twinkling, preening, clanging, stoking ambitions and devouring tourist dollars. Now behold the drama students of Verdugo Hills High School, their parents ferrying them from the San Fernando Valley to LAX, their...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Family, Dancing, Broadway, Whole Foods Market
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Skip the lines and save at New York's main attractions
Quit standing around in museum lobbies. To save dollars and time in line at eight more-or-less mandatory Manhattan destinations, consider a Citypass ([888] 330-5008, www.citypass.com). For $74 per adult (or $54 if you're 12 to 17), this booklet gets you...Tags: People, Museum of Natural History, Battery Park, Transportation, Manhattan (New York City)
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Sherman E. Lee, 90; former director of Cleveland art museum gave it international prestige
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSherman E. Lee, a former longtime director of the Cleveland Museum of Art whose keen-eyed collecting of old European and Asian masterpieces gave it international prestige, died of natural causes July 9 in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 90. Lee took the helm of...Tags: Jacques-Louis David, Libraries and Museums, Family, Arts, Police Arrests
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Bruce Conner, 74; Bay Area artist worked in film, sculpture, assemblage
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBruce Conner, a Bay Area artist who used sculpture, drawing, film and photography to explore mortality and other cosmic mysteries, died Monday at his home in San Francisco. He was 74. The cause was complications from a liver condition, according to his...Tags: Sculpture, Arts, Christopher Knight, Health and Safety at School, Movies
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He pushed limits of architecture
Tribune criticWalter A. Netsch Jr., the maverick, strong-willed Chicago architect whose geometrically complex buildings, including the University of Illinois at Chicago campus and the U.S. Air Force Academy chapel in Colorado, departed from glass-box orthodoxy and both...Tags: Retirement, Architecture, Northwestern University, Colorado, Elections
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LACMA mend fences with the Prices
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJOE AND Etsuko Price are back. Twenty-five years ago, they joined with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to fulfill a dream. The Prices donated $5 million to help construct the Pavilion for Japanese Art and promised a spectacular collection of...Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, Libraries and Museums, Architecture, Charity, Arts
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