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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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Mappetite Mappetite, $14 Calling all foodies. Here's a new way to get recommendations for where to eat when you're playing tourist. A new product called Mappetite combines a guidebook to basic landmarks with a restaurant guide, in a simple,...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), New York, United Nations
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Do the Big Apple like a native
The Associated PressYou don't need big bucks to enjoy the Big Apple. 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 for free....Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Times Square, Transportation, Museum of Modern Art, Coney Island
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Quilts reflect rural strength of community
Special to The Morning CallLucy Mingo remembers the day in the mid 1990s when Atlanta art collector and entrepreneur William Arnett walked into her house in Gee's Bend, Ala., and admired her quilts. ''He told me they were art. I told him they were just something I made to keep...Tags: Nature Religion, Slavery, Culture, New York Times, New York
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Thomas Friedman sounds the call for a green revolution
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIT IS 90 degrees on a crisp fall day, 89% humidity. One-hundred thousand refugees are stranded in Texas, courtesy of Hurricane Ike. Could just be a bad day. Then again, it could be something worse. The headline of Thomas Friedman's column in this...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Human Rights, Agricultural Research and Technology, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Petroleum Industry
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NY seniors go back to school without leaving home
Associated Press WriterKathy Leeds grows increasingly animated as she describes the courses she is taking this fall, including classes in current events, art and literature. But Leeds will never step foot on a campus or in a classroom for that matter. She is a 79-year-old...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Colleges and Universities, Sociology, Museum of Modern Art, Long Island
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Van Gogh, Chagall and Calder top blockbuster New York museum shows for fall
ehulme@am-ny.comIn the next few weeks, the art world wakes up from its long summerıs nap. Here are some of the exciting shows headed our way. MOMA 11 W 53rd St, 212-708-9400 Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night Sept. 21-Jan. 5 This ambitious retrospective looks back...Tags: Long Island City, Montebello, Painting, Petroleum Industry, Museum of Modern Art
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DINING MAPS: Delicious directions
Calling all foodies. Here's a new way to get recommendations for where to eat when you're playing tourist. A new product called Mappetite combines a guidebook to basic landmarks with a restaurant guide, in a simple, lightweight foldout map format. The...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), New York, United Nations
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USS Mount Whitney
On Friday, the U.S. Navy's Mediterranean fleet, including the USS Mount Whitney, arrived to Poti, a key Georgian port, to deliver tons of humanitarian aid. The port is still occupied by hundreds of Russian troops. Although Russia has watched the arrival...Tags: Defense, Charity, Wars and Interventions, Dick Cheney, Armed Forces
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More art highlights
steve.parks@newsday.comSEPT. 7. Infrastructures: Photographs by Bryan Whitney. Photographic images of communication towers emphasizing the complexity and mystery of some of the most distinctive structures in the contemporary landscape. (Reception Sept. 21.) Anthony Giordano...Tags: Kansas, Manhattan (New York City), Muhammad Ali, Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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: Hell's Kitchen, Times Square, Altria Group, Brooklyn Bridge, Henry Hudson
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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: Music, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), David Merrick, Movies, Rock and Roll Music
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Artworks by noted psychedelic artists go to NYC auction
A collection of original art by noted psychedelic artists, depicting some of the biggest names in rock 'n' roll, is going on the auction block Wednesday. Paintings, printing plates, ink drawings and painted cel vinyls of The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix,...Tags: Hobbies, Alice Cooper, Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, Auction Service
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