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Garden exhibit goes to pots at LongHouse Reserve
irenevirag@optonline.netLike a lot of things in the garden, a well-planted pot is a work of art. But you need more than plant material and potting mix. You need an eye, a sense of daring, an inspiration. I was struck by this when I attended the opening of an invitational...Tags: Botany, North Carolina, Natural Science, Brooklyn (King's, New York), Kentucky
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Connecticut's Meritorious Parkway
Seventy years ago today, the first section — roughly half — of the 34-mile Merritt Parkway opened to the hoopla of crowds and ribbon-cutting. Luminaries including former heavyweight champ Gene Tunney, hosts of mayors and first selectmen, state...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Tourism and Leisure, Greenwich, University of Virginia
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Portrait Of The Artist-Drunk
Courant Staff WriterJeff Stimmel made a documentary about artist Chuck Connelly, and when he was finished, HBO sent a copy of the final cut to Connelly. Connelly gave it a thumb's up. Stimmel didn't expect this. "I was a little surprised. I thought he wouldn't like it,"...Tags: Bantam Lake, Martin Scorsese, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock
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Artist mixed paint, sculpture, cast-offs
Times Art CriticRobert Rauschenberg, the protean artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art between 1950 and the early 1970s, died Monday night, according to New...Tags: Tiffany & Company, Missouri, Manhattan, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko
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A & P heir who lost millions
Huntington Hartford II, the heir to the A&P supermarket fortune whose quest to be taken seriously as a patron of the arts led him to bankroll movies, plays, galleries and publications that ultimately drained his wealth, died May 19 at Lyford Cay in the...Tags: Arts, General Motors Corp., Frank Lloyd Wright, Maine, William Faulkner
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Robert Rauschenberg, iconic artist, dead at 82
Tribune criticRobert Rauschenberg, the American painter, sculptor, printmaker, photographer and performance artist who was one of the most influential artists in the second half of the 20th Century, died Monday night at his home in Captiva Island, Fla., according to...Tags: Andy Warhol, School Supplies, Music Industry, John Cage, Newspaper and Magazine
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Modernist helped shape early art in America
New York Times News ServiceJoseph Solman, a painter who, with Mark Rothko and other modernists, helped shape American art as early as the 1930s and, into a new century, continued to paint in his studio above the Second Avenue Deli in New York, died Wednesday at his home in...Tags: Amedeo Modigliani, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Major League Baseball, Baseball
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Huntington Hartford II, 97; A & P heir spent his fortune on the arts
The Washington PostHuntington Hartford II, heir to the A&P supermarket fortune whose quest to be taken seriously as a patron of the arts led him to bankroll a series of movies, plays, galleries and publications that ultimately drained his wealth, died Monday at Lyford Cay...Tags: Religious Leaders, Music Theater, Pablo Picasso, William Faulkner, Marilyn Monroe
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On this day in history
On April 24, 1792, French military officer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote the words and music to "La Marseillaise." In 1800 the Library of Congress was established. In 1877 federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North's post-...Tags: Estee Lauder Companies, Computing and Information Technology, Religious Leaders, Massachusetts, Pope
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Irving Penn photographs in Morgan Library exhibit
ariella.budick@newsday.comThe 99-year-old photographer Irving Penn has an eye that turns everything elegant. His portraits of artists and writers, now on view at the Morgan Library and Museum, bestow crisp clarity on even the sloppiest dressers and messiest minds. His cool lens...Tags: Truman Capote, Aaron Copland, Jorge Luis Borges, Manhattan, Photography
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