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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and most respected art museums. Located along Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, the Met's permanent collection has more than two million works of art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and most respected art museums. Located along Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, the Met's permanent collection has more than two million works of art.
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Seeing more than the typical sites in NYC
Anyone who has ever tried to get any work done with young kids underfoot can only imagine what Harris Levine must have gone through — every day of his life.
The Polish immigrant tailor lived with his wife and three young children in three tiny...Tags: Baseball, Brooklyn Cyclones, New York Mets, Museum of Natural History, Fire Department of New York
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Traveling to New York City, on a ukelele string
Special to The Baltimore SunLast week, I took my son on the value bus from Baltimore to New York to see his sister perform in a New York University show. We rode the bus because it is: 1) always an adventure; 2) an interesting introduction to other people's fragrant lunches; and 3)...Tags: New York University, Values, New York, Hamburgers, John Lennon
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Something fun for nothing
The economy may not be so hot this summer, but you don't need a fat pocketbook - or any money at all - to have a good time.
Free activities are plentiful, from theater performances to movies to bowling. Some activities we've found are just for the kids,...Tags: People, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Theater, Donovan, DeSales University
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NYC stagehands forgo salary hike at Met Opera
Stagehands at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City have agreed to give up a 3 percent salary hike for the 2009-2010 season _ the last year of their current contract. The move will help the Met to deal with a looming deficit. The Met has agreed to...Tags: Music Theater, New York Times, Wages and Pensions, Opera, International Relations
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Michael Jackson: End of a signature era
Fashion CriticWe all wore them -- the black loafers, white ankle socks, rhinestone brooches, cropped military jackets and fedoras. Michael Jackson's sartorial signatures filled our closets in the 1980s. And his passing marks the end of an era when a pop singer's...Tags: Boy George, Adam Ant, Celebrity, Justin Timberlake, New York
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American art gets a higher profile in U.S. museums
Long the stepchild of a Eurocentric art world, American art is finding new favor at home as a growing number of institutions showcase work from Colonial times to World War II.
Today, the Huntington in San Marino will join the Metropolitan Museum of Art...Tags: Arts, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., New York, World War II (1939-1945), Los Angeles
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Robert Colescott, 1925-2009: Opinionated African-American painter and art satirist
Tribune NewspapersRobert Colescott, a wildly expressive and fearlessly opinionated painter who skewered racial and sexual stereotypes with hilarious force, has died. He was 83. Mr. Colescott, who had suffered from Parkinsonian syndrome, died June 4 at his home in Tucson,...Tags: Arts, United States, Delaware, New York, Tucson
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Robert Colescott dies at 83; African American artist skewered stereotypes with wit and explosive style
Robert Colescott, a wildly expressive and fearlessly opinionated painter who skewered racial and sexual stereotypes with hilarious force, has died. He was 83.
Colescott, who had suffered from Parkinsonian syndrome, died June 4 at his home in Tucson, said...Tags: Human Body, Arts, Delaware, New York, World War II (1939-1945)
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The Met Years?
On the Mets beatIn the wake of this media maelstrom over "The Yankee Years," the combustible new book from Joe Torre and Tom Verducci, don't hold your breath waiting for a similiar tome from axed Mets manager Willie Randolph. Unlike the Yankees,......Tags: Omar Minaya, New York Mets, Joe Torre
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At Met Museum gala, models turn out in full force
Special to NewsdayThe "supermuses" were out in full force at last night's annual Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit, one of the hottest invites to get if you're ANYONE in fashion, film, music or high society. The VIP party celebrates the Met's newest...Tags: Brooke Shields, Gisele Bundchen , Justin Timberlake, Jessica Alba, New York
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Kiefer Sutherland surrenders to NYPD
rocco.parascandola@newsday.com"24" star Kiefer Sutherland could wind up spending a lot more than 24 hours behind bars for head-butting a designer at a Soho soiree. Sutherland arrived at a lower Manhattan police station Thursday afternoon for questioning, the AP reports. After...Tags: Brooke Shields, Police, Kiefer Sutherland, Glendale (Los Angeles, California), Prosecution
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6 art shows to see
steve.parks@newsday.comNapoleon and Eugenie ( Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, June 7-Sept. 7). Experience the splendor and opulence of France's second empire with paintings, sculpture, decorative objects and historical artifacts from the Imperial Court of Napoleon...Tags: Arts, John Sloan, Gustav Stickley, Imperial and Royal Matters, Marsden Hartley
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