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Museums RSS Feeds'Gethsemane': Putting white heat on politics - The new David Hare play, 'Gethsemane,' treats the political and social issues of the day, but sometimes seems dated. 'Piaf' boasts an outsized performance by Elena Roger....Feed Source: www.iht.com Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Springsteen - A round-up of the day's celebrity news.... Book review: The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath - The author Robert J. Samuelson sees the "Great Inflation" of the U.S. economy in the late 1970s as a watershed in American history.... Another kind of vampire romance - Heinrich Marschner's "Der Vampyr" is being revived at Bologna's Teatro Communale in a fine production by the veteran director Pier Luigi Pizzi.... 'Twilight': The vampire of the mall - Robert Pattinson, the heartthrob star of the coming film adaptation of the vampire romance novel "Twilight," meets his squealing fans.... A teenage vampire tale and its careful retelling - As the legions of teenagers who have read the novel on which the forthcoming film "Twilight" is based know, the awkward passage from youth to maturity isn't the very worst problem an adolescent can have.... A hip-hop writer's wish to reconcile 2 sides of New York - Hoch's show, "Taking Over," about gentrification in New York, is now in previews at the Public Theater and opens next Sunday.... When getting into preschool becomes an obsession - When the filmmaker behind "Nursery University," a documentary about the cutthroat admission process at elite preschools in New York, set out to make his film, he found that he couldn't get in, either.... Book review: 'American Lion' - Andrew Jackson's domestic life in the White House is a tale of revenge.... For Buffalo, New York, an architectural crossroads - Local preservationists are completing restorations on some of the most important landmarks in Buffalo, New York, while the federal government is considering a plan that could wipe out part of a historic neighborhood.... Kanye West, Lindsay Lohan, Ann Curry - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Recessionary design: A boom time for creative energy - Design has always coped well with austerity, and is especially well-equipped to do so now.... Bond film is tops at U.S. box office - The new James Bond film sold an estimated $70.4 million in tickets at North American theaters, setting an opening-weekend record for the franchise.... Beyoncé: Ready to shed her good-girl image? - In her new movie "Cadillac Records," Beyoncé Knowles swaggers and swears through her performance as Etta James.... Book review: 'A Great Idea at the Time' - Alex Beam relates how Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler and a few others whittled the literary, scientific and philosophical canon down to 443 exemplary works to be included in their Great Books of the Western World.... In 'Quantum of Solace', James Bond evolves as a tragic figure - "Quantum of Solace" begs the question: Is revenge the only possible motive for large-scale movie heroism these days?... Spy games with Daniel Craig - Unlike many movie stars who come to believe the myth of their superiority, Craig - whose second James Bond film, "Quantum of Solace," is being released this week - tends to mock his own celebrity.... Centennial Fleming and perennial Bond - There are now, in addition to the 12 Bond novels that Ian Fleming actually wrote, almost twice as many that he didn't. And in the movies, the spy is still going strong.... At auctions, contemporary art shows its strength - At sales of contemporary art at Sotheby's and Christie's this week the divergence between the economy at large and the auction scene was striking.... Miguel Syjuco, Olga Kurylenko, Juanes - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Studio shots offer glimpses of high society's best - Portrait photographs of the Asian elite from the late 1800s to early 1900s are being shown in the exhibition "Neither East Nor West: Asians in Monochrome" at the Asian Civilisation Museum in Singapore.... Mitch Mitchell, drummer for Jimi Hendrix Experience, dies at 61 - The jazzy and versatile British drummer for Hendrix died Wednesday in a hotel in Portland, Oregon. The cause was unknown, a publicist said.... Ricky Gervais: He's out for laughs, and no one is safe - In 'Out of England', Gervais blends the slimy self-delusion of David Brent, his character on the original version of "The Office," with the aggrieved hostility he perfected in "Extras" on HBO.... Chagall: The inflated stardom of a Russian artist - In an engaging, almost painting-by-painting biography, the writer Jackie Wullschlager backs up her dislike of Chagall (drawing on archival letters and memoirs), portraying the artist as a social climber and a prince of self-pity.... A documentary about the Obama campaign is drawing wide interest - A documentary, more than two years in the making, about President-elect Barack Obama's campaign is gathering significant interest from international distributors.... A.B. Yehoshua's 'Friendly Fire' - The depth, and burdens, of Jewish life in Israel form the central themes of Yehoshua's latest novel.... Roy Blount Jr's 'Alphabet Juice' - This alphabetically arranged book reads like a big bag of salty snacks: nibble five or six of its 500-plus entries and you'll have to wolf the whole thing.... James Kelman's 'Kieron Smith, Boy' - This is difficult writing of an unexpected sort. Kieron, and Kelman, give you no help, declining to distinguish what might be important from what's not. And that, in miniature, is how the book works as a whole.... Susan Cheever's 'Desire' - In "Desire," Cheever explores the nature of sex addiction, interspersed with her own experiences, specifically her relationship with her long-term adulterous lover turned third husband, a rakish, hard-drinking journalist named Warren.... Sylvia Brownrigg's 'The Delivery Room' - Brownrigg brings an ironist's eye to the tragicomic proceedings of 'The Delivery Room,' where she risks monotony with so many baby-on-the-brain patients, while deftly shifting our point of view among her whining characters.... Forgotten art of French illustrator George Barbier is rediscovered at Fortuny Museum show - The elegantly erotic work of George Barbier disappeared from view after his death in 1932. Now his reputation is being reassessed in an exhibition in Venice of more than 200 paintings, fashion plates, drawings, dresses, books, articles, manuscripts, photographs and other pieces.... Chinese fine brush paintings show resilience at auction even as contemporary boom goes flat - A different collector base and less fizzy pricing both help to stabilize the market for classical and modern ink and color-wash scrolls.... Christie's auction of Yves Saint Laurent's art collection in Paris is called "sale of the century" - Pierre Bergé, long time partner of the French couturier, who died this year, looks for closure when the hammer falls in February on masterpieces expected to fetch more than $250 million.... Jewelry by Alexander Calder goes on show in New York - Best known for colorful mobiles and monumental "stabiles," the American-born sculptor Alexander Calder also made unpretentious and elegantly simple personal jewelry, using brass, precious metals and found objects.... A senior fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence - The claim of credit for the Africa anecdote is just the latest ruse by Martin Eisenstadt, who turns out to be a very elaborate hoax that has been going on for months.... 'Slumdog Millionaire': A journey into the heart of Mumbai - The film, directed by Danny Boyle, tells a story of love, pluck and greed through the eyes of a child forced to grow up too soon.... Orphan's lifeline out of hell could be a game show in Mumbai - A gaudy, gorgeous rush of color, sound and motion, "Slumdog Millionaire" doesn't travel through the lower depths, it giddily bounces from one horror to the next.... Contemporary art market defies financial turmoil - The sale in New York set several world records but there were several notables failures as well.... Contemporary art sale at Sotheby's nets $125 million - The sale was surprisingly strong and set several world records, including $5.46 million for a John Currin and $10.16 million for a Philip Guston.... Peter Matthiessen's trilogy has become a single novel: Does it matter? - Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," is a one-volume compilation of three novels that Matthiessen published from 1990 to 1999: "Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River" and "Bone by Bone." He is among the nominees for the National Book Award. Can his novel be considered new?... Theater director resigns amid gay-rights ire - The artistic director of the California Musical Theater resigned on Wednesday in the face of growing outrage over his support for Proposition 8.... 'Gethsemane': Putting white heat on politics - The new David Hare play, 'Gethsemane,' treats the political and social issues of the day, but sometimes seems dated. 'Piaf' boasts an outsized performance by Elena Roger.... Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Springsteen - A round-up of the day's celebrity news.... Book review: The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath - The author Robert J. Samuelson sees the "Great Inflation" of the U.S. economy in the late 1970s as a watershed in American history.... Another kind of vampire romance - Heinrich Marschner's "Der Vampyr" is being revived at Bologna's Teatro Communale in a fine production by the veteran director Pier Luigi Pizzi.... 'Twilight': The vampire of the mall - Robert Pattinson, the heartthrob star of the coming film adaptation of the vampire romance novel "Twilight," meets his squealing fans.... A teenage vampire tale and its careful retelling - As the legions of teenagers who have read the novel on which the forthcoming film "Twilight" is based know, the awkward passage from youth to maturity isn't the very worst problem an adolescent can have.... A hip-hop writer's wish to reconcile 2 sides of New York - Hoch's show, "Taking Over," about gentrification in New York, is now in previews at the Public Theater and opens next Sunday.... When getting into preschool becomes an obsession - When the filmmaker behind "Nursery University," a documentary about the cutthroat admission process at elite preschools in New York, set out to make his film, he found that he couldn't get in, either.... Book review: 'American Lion' - Andrew Jackson's domestic life in the White House is a tale of revenge.... For Buffalo, New York, an architectural crossroads - Local preservationists are completing restorations on some of the most important landmarks in Buffalo, New York, while the federal government is considering a plan that could wipe out part of a historic neighborhood.... Kanye West, Lindsay Lohan, Ann Curry - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Recessionary design: A boom time for creative energy - Design has always coped well with austerity, and is especially well-equipped to do so now.... Bond film is tops at U.S. box office - The new James Bond film sold an estimated $70.4 million in tickets at North American theaters, setting an opening-weekend record for the franchise.... Beyoncé: Ready to shed her good-girl image? - In her new movie "Cadillac Records," Beyoncé Knowles swaggers and swears through her performance as Etta James.... Book review: 'A Great Idea at the Time' - Alex Beam relates how Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler and a few others whittled the literary, scientific and philosophical canon down to 443 exemplary works to be included in their Great Books of the Western World.... In 'Quantum of Solace', James Bond evolves as a tragic figure - "Quantum of Solace" begs the question: Is revenge the only possible motive for large-scale movie heroism these days?... Spy games with Daniel Craig - Unlike many movie stars who come to believe the myth of their superiority, Craig - whose second James Bond film, "Quantum of Solace," is being released this week - tends to mock his own celebrity.... Centennial Fleming and perennial Bond - There are now, in addition to the 12 Bond novels that Ian Fleming actually wrote, almost twice as many that he didn't. And in the movies, the spy is still going strong.... At auctions, contemporary art shows its strength - At sales of contemporary art at Sotheby's and Christie's this week the divergence between the economy at large and the auction scene was striking.... Miguel Syjuco, Olga Kurylenko, Juanes - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Studio shots offer glimpses of high society's best - Portrait photographs of the Asian elite from the late 1800s to early 1900s are being shown in the exhibition "Neither East Nor West: Asians in Monochrome" at the Asian Civilisation Museum in Singapore.... Mitch Mitchell, drummer for Jimi Hendrix Experience, dies at 61 - The jazzy and versatile British drummer for Hendrix died Wednesday in a hotel in Portland, Oregon. The cause was unknown, a publicist said.... Ricky Gervais: He's out for laughs, and no one is safe - In 'Out of England', Gervais blends the slimy self-delusion of David Brent, his character on the original version of "The Office," with the aggrieved hostility he perfected in "Extras" on HBO.... Chagall: The inflated stardom of a Russian artist - In an engaging, almost painting-by-painting biography, the writer Jackie Wullschlager backs up her dislike of Chagall (drawing on archival letters and memoirs), portraying the artist as a social climber and a prince of self-pity.... A documentary about the Obama campaign is drawing wide interest - A documentary, more than two years in the making, about President-elect Barack Obama's campaign is gathering significant interest from international distributors.... A.B. Yehoshua's 'Friendly Fire' - The depth, and burdens, of Jewish life in Israel form the central themes of Yehoshua's latest novel.... Roy Blount Jr's 'Alphabet Juice' - This alphabetically arranged book reads like a big bag of salty snacks: nibble five or six of its 500-plus entries and you'll have to wolf the whole thing.... James Kelman's 'Kieron Smith, Boy' - This is difficult writing of an unexpected sort. Kieron, and Kelman, give you no help, declining to distinguish what might be important from what's not. And that, in miniature, is how the book works as a whole.... Susan Cheever's 'Desire' - In "Desire," Cheever explores the nature of sex addiction, interspersed with her own experiences, specifically her relationship with her long-term adulterous lover turned third husband, a rakish, hard-drinking journalist named Warren.... Sylvia Brownrigg's 'The Delivery Room' - Brownrigg brings an ironist's eye to the tragicomic proceedings of 'The Delivery Room,' where she risks monotony with so many baby-on-the-brain patients, while deftly shifting our point of view among her whining characters.... Forgotten art of French illustrator George Barbier is rediscovered at Fortuny Museum show - The elegantly erotic work of George Barbier disappeared from view after his death in 1932. Now his reputation is being reassessed in an exhibition in Venice of more than 200 paintings, fashion plates, drawings, dresses, books, articles, manuscripts, photographs and other pieces.... Chinese fine brush paintings show resilience at auction even as contemporary boom goes flat - A different collector base and less fizzy pricing both help to stabilize the market for classical and modern ink and color-wash scrolls.... Christie's auction of Yves Saint Laurent's art collection in Paris is called "sale of the century" - Pierre Bergé, long time partner of the French couturier, who died this year, looks for closure when the hammer falls in February on masterpieces expected to fetch more than $250 million.... Jewelry by Alexander Calder goes on show in New York - Best known for colorful mobiles and monumental "stabiles," the American-born sculptor Alexander Calder also made unpretentious and elegantly simple personal jewelry, using brass, precious metals and found objects.... A senior fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence - The claim of credit for the Africa anecdote is just the latest ruse by Martin Eisenstadt, who turns out to be a very elaborate hoax that has been going on for months.... 'Slumdog Millionaire': A journey into the heart of Mumbai - The film, directed by Danny Boyle, tells a story of love, pluck and greed through the eyes of a child forced to grow up too soon.... Orphan's lifeline out of hell could be a game show in Mumbai - A gaudy, gorgeous rush of color, sound and motion, "Slumdog Millionaire" doesn't travel through the lower depths, it giddily bounces from one horror to the next.... Contemporary art market defies financial turmoil - The sale in New York set several world records but there were several notables failures as well.... Contemporary art sale at Sotheby's nets $125 million - The sale was surprisingly strong and set several world records, including $5.46 million for a John Currin and $10.16 million for a Philip Guston.... Peter Matthiessen's trilogy has become a single novel: Does it matter? - Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," is a one-volume compilation of three novels that Matthiessen published from 1990 to 1999: "Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River" and "Bone by Bone." He is among the nominees for the National Book Award. Can his novel be considered new?... Theater director resigns amid gay-rights ire - The artistic director of the California Musical Theater resigned on Wednesday in the face of growing outrage over his support for Proposition 8.... 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 © 2008, Marketershandbook.com. All Rights Reserved. |