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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a preeminent art museum in Manhattan on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. The museum's collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawings, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books, film, and electronic media.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a preeminent art museum in Manhattan on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. The museum's collection offers an overview of modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawings, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books, film, and electronic media.
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Pro-Tibet artist from New York detained in Beijing
BEIJING - A New York artist who planned to use laser beams to flash "free Tibet" on buildings in downtown Beijing was detained yesterday, according to a colleague and a pro-Tibet group. James Powderly, co-founder of Graffiti Research Lab in New York, was...Tags: Brooklyn Bridge, Freedom of the Press, Olympic Games, Justice and Rights, Civil Rights
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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: Subway Transportation, Times Square, Tourism and Leisure, David Letterman, Theater
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Perez Celis, 69; Argentine painter, sculptor, muralist
Washington PostPerez Celis, an Argentine painter, sculptor and muralist whose highly visible works adorned museums, banks, airports and universities as well as soccer stadiums and wine bottles, died of leukemia Aug. 2 at a clinic in Buenos Aires. He was 69. Celis had...Tags: Arts, Cancer, Walt Whitman, Jorge Luis Borges, Washington Post Company
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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: Times Square, Subway Transportation, High Schools, Mel Brooks, Rupert Murdoch
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Sleeping With The Stars: Celebrity Real Estate
Shaq Again Cuts Price In Miami Beach Basketball's Shaquille O'Neal has trimmed the asking price for his island mansion in Miami Beach again, to $29 million from $32 million. O'Neal, who was traded in February to the Phoenix Suns from the Miami Heat,...Tags: Homes, Vehicles, Tennis, Baseball, Passenger Cars
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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: Subway Transportation, Statue of Liberty, Subway Transportation Industry, Manhattan (New York City), Guggenheim Museum
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Real architectural movement
The Associated PressPrefabricated houses don't have to be ticky-tacky. Contemporary prefab homes now possess all the flair and durability of traditional housing. Computerized designs and innovative materials are behind this architectural revolution, replacing cookie-...Tags: Homes, Frank Lloyd Wright, Building Material, Manhattan (New York City), Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Calder jewelry recalls his mobiles
Associated PressPHILADELPHIA—Think of Alexander Calder, and the first thing to come to mind would likely be the suspended abstract sculptures that silently orbit above the heads of museum-goers around the world. Though best known for those enormous yet graceful...Tags: Alexander Calder, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marcel Duchamp, Marc Chagall
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The Hammer Museum's James Elaine builds a bridge to China's art scene
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLET OTHERS talk about the lure of art from China. James Elaine did something about it. He moved there. "China is here to stay," says Elaine, an artist and curator who has organized edgy exhibitions and introduced emerging figures at the UCLA Hammer...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Book, Arts, Multi-Sport Events, Beijing Games
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NYC show highlights advances in prefab home design
Prefabricated houses don't have to be ticky-tacky. Contemporary prefab homes now possess all the flair and durability of traditional housing. Computerized designs and innovative materials are behind this architectural revolution, replacing cookie-...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Building Material, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Homes, Metal and Mineral
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X-ray shows Picasso's 'Guernica' not in danger
Associated PressMADRID—Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica" depicts intense suffering, but its own health is not in danger. That's the diagnosis after the first X-ray of Pablo Picasso's 20th Century anti-war painting carried out by the Reina Sofia art museum. The X-...Tags: Arts, Pablo Picasso, New York, Wars and Interventions, Francisco Franco
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On Exhibit At MoMA: Not Your Mother's Prefab
Associated PressPrefabricated houses don't have to be ticky-tacky. Contemporary prefab homes now possess all the flair and durability of traditional housing. Computerized designs and innovative materials are behind this architectural revolution, replacing cookie-...Tags: Homes, House M.D., Building Material, Manhattan (New York City), Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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