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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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See NYC on the cheap
AP Travel EditorYou don't need big bucks to enjoy the Big Apple big time. Travel like a New Yorker on the subway. Eat like a New Yorker on the street. And see the city like a New Yorker by visiting public spaces, landmarks and famous places, many of which can be enjoyed...Tags: Arts, Transportation, Labor Day, Brooklyn Museum, Statue of Liberty
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NYC Picks: Latino Film Festival
The Ninth Annual New York International Latino Film Festival runs July 22-27 and will showcase more than 100 films. Here are some to check out this weekend. Tickets are $10-$80 depending on film or panel. Go to nylatinofilm.com/tickets/info.html.
1. "The...Tags: Times Square, Grand Central Terminal, Brooklyn Bridge, Henry Hudson, Hell's Kitchen
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"Hair": Reviving The Revolution
Courant Staff WriterJames Rado sits in the lobby of New York's Public Theater, the building where the musical "Hair" began its journey. The "American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" moved in 1968 from off-Broadway's Public to Broadway's Biltmore, where it played for 1,750...Tags: George H.W. Bush, Yale Repertory Theatre, Rock and Roll Music, Music Theater, Movies
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Some strategies for exercise in heat, humidity are all wet
New York Times News ServiceYou already know that if you exercise outside on hot and humid days, you should drink plenty of water. And you are probably well aware of the risk of heat stroke. But if you're going to be out exercising anyway, you may have different questions: How...Tags: Defense, Weather Reports, New York Times, Cycling, Marathon
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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: Nebraska, Arts, Movies, John F. Kennedy, Museum of Modern Art
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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, Auction Service, Chicago Real Estate, Manhattan (New York City), Homes
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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: Philosophy, Spaceship Earth, Vehicles, Health and Safety at School, Suicide
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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: Arts, Iowa, George Washington, Jasper Johns, Winslow Homer
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Art review: Whitney Biennial is a wasteland
ariella.budick@newsday.comAs I slogged through the Whitney's amorphous, random and mostly incomprehensible Biennial, a line from T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" echoed in my brain: "These fragments I have shored against my ruins." The heaps and scraps scattered around the museum felt...Tags: Arts, Assault, Manhattan (New York City), Photography, Crimes
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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: Pat Benatar, Oscar de la Renta, Manhattan (New York City), Family, Chuck Close
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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, Arts, Libraries and Museums, Bronx (New York City), Faye Dunaway
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A weekend on the wagon
ehulme@am-ny.comThese days, alcohol and extracurricular activities seem to go hand-in-hand. But you don't need booze to have fun -- or do you? We challenged three amNewYork staffers to abstain from drinking for a weekend. The lesson we learned, evidently, is that...Tags: Shirley Temple, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Clay Aiken
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