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In This Case: A Filled Gap and My First Win
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Peter (A Young English Girl) by Romaine Brooks The Luce Center staff can be a fairly competitive bunch: which of our scavenger hunts gets the most participants or which audio tour stops do visitors listen to most often. But lately, we’ve extended our competition to our ongoing Fill the Gap project where we ask you to help us fill the empty...
Come Home to Cocktails@Cooper-Hewitt
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When the Carnegie mansion was built, it may have been lavish, but it was designed to be home. That spirit lives on in Cocktails@Cooper-Hewitt, our popular summer series. Every Friday evening, Members and museum visitors come “home” to Cooper-Hewitt to unwind for the weekend. The Ed Fuqua Group provides smooth sounds of jazz wafting through the summer air of the...
Comments at an Exhibition: Visitors Respond to Rockwell
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Norman Rockwell, Boy and Father: Homework, Four Seasons Calendar, 1962, oil on canvas, Collection of George Lucas, © Brown and Bigelow With the exhibition Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg closing on January 2nd, we wanted to share some of the comments visitors have shared with us, both online as well as in...
Murakami Hits The Macy’s Day Parade
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Takashi Murakami's Kaikai and Kiki My parents will be pleased. Murakami’s well known characters Kaikai and Kiki will be seen in helium balloon form this November at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, so for the first time in ten years I will be attending the parade with them. From the New York Times: If familiar figures like Kermit the Frog and SpongeBob SquarePants...
Seeing Things: Looking, Watching, and Listening
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Kota Ezawa's LYAM 3D A walk through the museum the other day in honor of one year ending and the new year beginning, was a feast for the eyes...and ears. It's not just getting up close to a painting that can be rewarding, it's also hearing what other people say to each other when looking. Love, hate, indifference...I've heard them all....
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NYDailyNews.com - ArtsContractors in Australia inadvertently destroyed artwork this week by graffiti artist Banksy. It's the third time that misfortune has befallen one of his works in suburban Melbourne in recent years....
Two singers left after Ledet voted off 'Idol'
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsGospel-driven singer Joshua Ledet lost any prayer of becoming the next American Idol Thursday. The big voiced contender got the late-breaking ax, leaving as the final two, 16-year-old R&B singer Jessica Sanchez and wily folk-rock wanna-be Phillip Phillips....
Theater review: ‘C—k’ opens Off-Broadway
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsThe name of Mike Bartlett’s Olivier Award-winning drama rhymes with shock. That’s exactly what the title “C-k” is meant to do....
Disco legend Donna Summer dead at 63
NYDailyNews.com - ArtsThe pop music world was stunned Thursday by the death of Donna Summer, the original "Disco Queen" who over four decades proved that she and her music were stars, not fads. She was 63 and reportedly had been suffering from lung cancer, although she had...
'Cloud City' opens on Met Museum roof
NewYorkologyThe Metropolitan Museum of Art this week opened Tomás Saraceno’s “Cloud City” a site-specific rooftop structure that allows visitors to climb through a funhouse of intergalactic pods. “The work of art seems to hover over Central Park, Fifth Avenue, embedded into a weightless cloudscape—overlapped, multiplicity, mixed ascendance, and/or divergent-but-coexistent patterns...
"Showing is Proving and Proving is Nothing But Fear": A Q&A With Rocker and Painter John Mellencamp
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'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' to close June 24
NewYorkology“Priscilla Queen of the Desert” will end its Broadway run June 24, according to the show’s official website. The musical is based on the 1994 movie “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.” The show garnered a B+ median grade from the critics following its March 20, 2011 opening night,...
