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...particularly high[an error occurred while processing this directive] concentration of great American painters - including Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler and Mary Cassatt - passed through the City of Light. From Oct. 24-Jan. 18, their labors will be on display in "Americans in Paris, 1860-1900" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The 100 oil paintings by 37 mostly Impressionist painters have already wowed crowds and critics in both London and Boston...
Many a Sunday brunch has been ruined when I open the New York Times—eager to read an in-depth feature about this month’s offerings at the Museum of Modern Art—but find instead a rave review about an opening in Berlin. The college student who can barely afford an online Times Select subscription surely cannot hop a plane to Paris/London/Bilbao—why must Nicholas Ouroussoff tempt me so? Like the unnaturally blue bagels left beside the toaster, so too is the Times’ Arts section rejected when they insist...
...after Russian veterans unfurled Soviet flags. That prompted an outraged reaction, including a threat by one Estonian nationalist leader to blow up the monument. The park where the memorial is situated has since been cordoned off and remains under 24-hour police guard. Ask Heiki Ahonen, director of a museum dedicated to the Nazi and Soviet occupations, how Estonia is faring as it seeks to construct an integrated society, and he snorts: "This is not nation building; it's more like putting out fires." Perhaps the next generation will work out such tricky issues. Galja Burnakova, 29, taps the side...
...collection is a beautiful, yet ambiguous exploration of the lives of children in a small community in Eastern California. Culled from films and photographs made by Lockhart during her three-year part-time residency in Pine Flat, the exhibition currently resides at Harvard’s Sackler Museum. The films, like their titles—”Hunter,” “Harmonica,” “Kissing,” and “Guns in Rain”—tend to be compositionally simple, but not simplistic. Each ten-minute film...
...three weeks after her May 27 birth. The first biological child of Jolie (who has an adopted son Maddox and daughter Zahara) and Pitt’s first child as well, Shiloh even has a likeness of herself with mom and dad in Madame Tussaud’s wax museum. July 28 was a big day: Lance Bass, former teen heartthrob and member of the boy band N’Sync, publicly announced that he was gay, and Mel Gibson belligerently said that “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world” while...