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Museums RSS FeedsQatar's Museum of Islamic Art: Despite flaws, a house of masterpieces - The new Museum of Islamic Art opened this week in Doha, Qatar...Feed Source: www.iht.com Probing cultural influences of art - The exhibition "Beyond Boundaries" appears to be about contacts between different cultures, although this is not spelled out in so many words.... Book review: 'The Man Who Invented Christmas' - In his book Les Standiford admits that the public's embrace of Dickens's short novel is but one evidence of the 19th century's changing attitude toward Christmas.... Book review: 'Le Corbusier: A Life' and 'Le Corbusier Le Grand' - In his book "Le Corbusier" Witold Nicholas Fox Weber has written an admiring biography; "Le Corbusier Le Grand," a 20-pound tome put together by the editors at Phaidon, is a giant scrapbook of the architect's life and work.... J.K. Rowling, Jennifer Hudson, Ron Howard - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Hollywood's No. 1 women: Winfrey and Jolie - When the going gets tough, the most powerful woman in Hollywood turns to macaroni and cheese.... Police seeking 2 people in Ruffalo shooting - Police are seeking two people they want to question about the shooting of actor Mark Ruffalo's brother.... Richard Schickel and George Perry's 'You Must Remember This' - The lavish, lively picture-book history "You Must Remember This" tells the story of Rin Tin Tin, a pup rescued from the German trenches at the end of World War I, who repaid that act of kindness by bringing riches to Warner Brothers, a near-insolvent movie studio in the early 1920s.... Soaring in art, a museum trips over finances - By putting art ahead of the bottom line, the the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has suffered financially and is now being audited by the state's attorney general.... Bob Dylan and Barry Feinstein's 'Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric' - The newest unboxing of the Bob Dylan archives is a series of 23 poems he wrote in the early 1960s to accompany a collection of Hollywood photographs by Barry Feinstein. Either half of this collaboration would be worth having, but combined, they add up to one of the oddest coffee-table books to come along in a while.... Mosaics that capture the ephemeral moment - Akomena, an Italian firm that has just celebrated its 20th anniversary, has developed a playful philosophy for its designs that blur the borders between soft and hard.... Iranian artists open a window to the world - Growing clout of Dubai auction houses and mid-East collectors brings into focus a culture isolated since the 1979 revolution... Chinese contemporary art bubble goes flat - After four-years of unprecedented boom, speculative buyers are pulling back and works by top-name artists are struggling to find buyers... Turner Prize reflects a 'new language' - It has become not just a barometer of the state and direction of British contemporary art but also a fixture on the social calendar.... CBGB club at center of bitter family feud - The ownership and legacy of CBGB, the landmark New York punk rock club that closed in 2006, are being challenged by a lawsuit that has riven the family of its proprietor, Hilly Kristal.... Dylan Loeb McClain: Chess - The weekly chess column.... A natural Cassavetes woman, theatricalized, magnified and multiplied - The walls come tumbling down in "Opening Night," Ivo van Hove's wild and woolly stage version of the 1977 John Cassavetes movie about a Broadway-bound play in crisis.... Van Hove's 'Opening Night': Breaking down walls - The Belgian director Ivo van Hove is known for his bold, actor-centered stagings of classic dramas. His "Opening Night," based on John Cassavetes's 1977 original screenplay, is making its U.S. premiere this week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.... A dazzling, but also dull, 'Raymonda' in Paris - The production, designed by Nicholas Georgiadis, is sumptuous, but the dancing fails to come to life.... 'Ulysses' ponders the 'fragility of coherence' - Monteverdi's "Return of Ulysses" had a short, magical run in Venice in a production devised by William Kentridge, the South African artist, with the Handspring Puppet Company and the Ricercar Consort.... Sundance tilts to heart-tuggers - If things turn out as expected, festivalgoers will have more to cry about than the room prices at Sundance next year.... Pierce Brosnan, Chris Rock, Susan Sarandon - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Lil Wayne leads Grammy noms with 8, Coldplay 7 - Lil Wayne didn't get a Grammy nomination for "A Milli," but his total haul was still pretty amazing ? eight.... Jazmine Sullivan hits it big with 5 Grammy nods - Jazmine Sullivan's first song was a No. 1 hit on the R&B and hip-hop charts, and her raspy voice has drawn her comparisons to Lauryn Hill. Still, the singer-songwriter was struggling for name recognition in a crowded field of music newcomers.... Book review: 'The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For' and 'The Man Who Owns the News' - Alison Bechdel's anthology is a graphic commentary on lesbian life; Michael Wolff's book is a somewhat star-struck portrait of Rupert Murdoch.... A rising profile for Miami's indie music scene - Thanks to Miami talents like Rachel Goodrich, the indie rock queen of a town more known for machined bass and beats than for handcrafted songs, the city's reputation as a dead zone for live music may be changing.... Sundance tilts to heart-tuggers - If things turn out as expected, festivalgoers will have more to cry about than the room prices at Sundance next year.... The 10 best books of 2008 - The editors of The New York Times Book Review pick the best works from the last year.... 100 notable books of 2008 - The Book Review picks outstanding works from the last year.... Notable children's books of 2008 - Eight exceptional books published in the last year.... A multicultural swirl of Africa, the Americas and even outer space - A decade ago exhibitions linking Africa and the Americas were not uncommon. They are now, though, which may be one reason that "S & M: Shrines and Masquerades in Cosmopolitan Times" looks so fresh.... The comic writer Robert Siegel visits his darker side - Robert Siegel, the former editor of the fake comic newspaper The Onion is the somewhat surprising screenwriter of "The Wrestler," an austere character study about a professional grappler whose glory days have long since passed him by.... Polanski asks court to dismiss child-sex charge - Lawyers for Roman Polanski made the request based on claims of judicial wrong-doing revealed in a documentary film.... Odetta, voice of American civil rights movement, dies at 77 - The singer, whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died Tuesday. She was 77.... Qatar's Museum of Islamic Art: Despite flaws, a house of masterpieces - The new Museum of Islamic Art opened this week in Doha, Qatar... Probing cultural influences of art - The exhibition "Beyond Boundaries" appears to be about contacts between different cultures, although this is not spelled out in so many words.... Book review: 'The Man Who Invented Christmas' - In his book Les Standiford admits that the public's embrace of Dickens's short novel is but one evidence of the 19th century's changing attitude toward Christmas.... Book review: 'Le Corbusier: A Life' and 'Le Corbusier Le Grand' - In his book "Le Corbusier" Witold Nicholas Fox Weber has written an admiring biography; "Le Corbusier Le Grand," a 20-pound tome put together by the editors at Phaidon, is a giant scrapbook of the architect's life and work.... J.K. Rowling, Jennifer Hudson, Ron Howard - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Hollywood's No. 1 women: Winfrey and Jolie - When the going gets tough, the most powerful woman in Hollywood turns to macaroni and cheese.... Police seeking 2 people in Ruffalo shooting - Police are seeking two people they want to question about the shooting of actor Mark Ruffalo's brother.... Richard Schickel and George Perry's 'You Must Remember This' - The lavish, lively picture-book history "You Must Remember This" tells the story of Rin Tin Tin, a pup rescued from the German trenches at the end of World War I, who repaid that act of kindness by bringing riches to Warner Brothers, a near-insolvent movie studio in the early 1920s.... Soaring in art, a museum trips over finances - By putting art ahead of the bottom line, the the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has suffered financially and is now being audited by the state's attorney general.... Bob Dylan and Barry Feinstein's 'Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric' - The newest unboxing of the Bob Dylan archives is a series of 23 poems he wrote in the early 1960s to accompany a collection of Hollywood photographs by Barry Feinstein. Either half of this collaboration would be worth having, but combined, they add up to one of the oddest coffee-table books to come along in a while.... Mosaics that capture the ephemeral moment - Akomena, an Italian firm that has just celebrated its 20th anniversary, has developed a playful philosophy for its designs that blur the borders between soft and hard.... Iranian artists open a window to the world - Growing clout of Dubai auction houses and mid-East collectors brings into focus a culture isolated since the 1979 revolution... Chinese contemporary art bubble goes flat - After four-years of unprecedented boom, speculative buyers are pulling back and works by top-name artists are struggling to find buyers... Turner Prize reflects a 'new language' - It has become not just a barometer of the state and direction of British contemporary art but also a fixture on the social calendar.... CBGB club at center of bitter family feud - The ownership and legacy of CBGB, the landmark New York punk rock club that closed in 2006, are being challenged by a lawsuit that has riven the family of its proprietor, Hilly Kristal.... Dylan Loeb McClain: Chess - The weekly chess column.... A natural Cassavetes woman, theatricalized, magnified and multiplied - The walls come tumbling down in "Opening Night," Ivo van Hove's wild and woolly stage version of the 1977 John Cassavetes movie about a Broadway-bound play in crisis.... Van Hove's 'Opening Night': Breaking down walls - The Belgian director Ivo van Hove is known for his bold, actor-centered stagings of classic dramas. His "Opening Night," based on John Cassavetes's 1977 original screenplay, is making its U.S. premiere this week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.... A dazzling, but also dull, 'Raymonda' in Paris - The production, designed by Nicholas Georgiadis, is sumptuous, but the dancing fails to come to life.... 'Ulysses' ponders the 'fragility of coherence' - Monteverdi's "Return of Ulysses" had a short, magical run in Venice in a production devised by William Kentridge, the South African artist, with the Handspring Puppet Company and the Ricercar Consort.... Sundance tilts to heart-tuggers - If things turn out as expected, festivalgoers will have more to cry about than the room prices at Sundance next year.... Pierce Brosnan, Chris Rock, Susan Sarandon - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Lil Wayne leads Grammy noms with 8, Coldplay 7 - Lil Wayne didn't get a Grammy nomination for "A Milli," but his total haul was still pretty amazing ? eight.... Jazmine Sullivan hits it big with 5 Grammy nods - Jazmine Sullivan's first song was a No. 1 hit on the R&B and hip-hop charts, and her raspy voice has drawn her comparisons to Lauryn Hill. Still, the singer-songwriter was struggling for name recognition in a crowded field of music newcomers.... Book review: 'The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For' and 'The Man Who Owns the News' - Alison Bechdel's anthology is a graphic commentary on lesbian life; Michael Wolff's book is a somewhat star-struck portrait of Rupert Murdoch.... A rising profile for Miami's indie music scene - Thanks to Miami talents like Rachel Goodrich, the indie rock queen of a town more known for machined bass and beats than for handcrafted songs, the city's reputation as a dead zone for live music may be changing.... Sundance tilts to heart-tuggers - If things turn out as expected, festivalgoers will have more to cry about than the room prices at Sundance next year.... The 10 best books of 2008 - The editors of The New York Times Book Review pick the best works from the last year.... 100 notable books of 2008 - The Book Review picks outstanding works from the last year.... Notable children's books of 2008 - Eight exceptional books published in the last year.... A multicultural swirl of Africa, the Americas and even outer space - A decade ago exhibitions linking Africa and the Americas were not uncommon. They are now, though, which may be one reason that "S & M: Shrines and Masquerades in Cosmopolitan Times" looks so fresh.... The comic writer Robert Siegel visits his darker side - Robert Siegel, the former editor of the fake comic newspaper The Onion is the somewhat surprising screenwriter of "The Wrestler," an austere character study about a professional grappler whose glory days have long since passed him by.... Polanski asks court to dismiss child-sex charge - Lawyers for Roman Polanski made the request based on claims of judicial wrong-doing revealed in a documentary film.... Odetta, voice of American civil rights movement, dies at 77 - The singer, whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died Tuesday. She was 77.... Events at the Old Operating Theatre Museum - The latest events held by the Museum... Grants received by the Old Operating Theatre Museum - Details of grants and projects undertaken by the Museum ... Development Plan for the Old Operating Theatre Museum - Opportunity to look at the plans to improve the Museum - could we purchase the Church below the herb Garret?... News from the Old Operating Theatre Museum - News from our Home Page... History of Medicine Pages - Major rewrite of the History of Medicine Page ... Latest Press Releases from the Museum - The latest press releases from the Old Operating Theatre Museum ... Copyright © 2009, LadyWeb. All Rights Reserved. |