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Museums RSS FeedsOscar winners reflect Hollywood's priorities - If the Oscars aren't a reliable guide to artistic accomplishment, they provide an infallible index to how the leaders of the motion picture industry want their business to be seen in any given year....Feed Source: www.iht.com I'm trying to see all these movies. You want to talk? Go home! - Seeing all the films that may receive Oscar nods this season requires a single-mindedness bordering on mania.... Putting the party spirit back into the Oscars - The producers for the 81st Academy Awards ceremony, set for Feb. 22, are Laurence Mark and Bill Condon, both New York-raised Hollywood transplants bitten long ago by the movie bug.... Chopin helps Nadia Reisenberg, a forgotten pianist, come back to life - She was best known as a teacher later in her life at the Juilliard School but a new CD set of her Chopin interpretations has revived interest in her early career as a concert pianist.... Putting the party spirit back into the Oscars - The producers for the 81st Academy Awards ceremony, set for Feb. 22, are Laurence Mark and Bill Condon, both New York-raised Hollywood transplants bitten long ago by the movie bug.... I'm trying to see all these movies. You want to talk? Go home! - Seeing all the films that may receive Oscar nods this season requires a single-mindedness bordering on mania.... Oscar winners reflect Hollywood's priorities - If the Oscars aren't a reliable guide to artistic accomplishment, they provide an infallible index to how the leaders of the motion picture industry want their business to be seen in any given year.... The 10 Best American Movies - It's Top Ten time again, and like everyone else Stanley Fish has a list, in his case a list of the 10 best American movies ever.... Spinoff of MTV reality series follows fashionista from California to New York - Whitney Port, star of the MTV series "The City," a spinoff from "The Hills," tries the Manhattan fashion scene after an early career in Hollywood.... Hope for a brighter future on a darker Broadway - STRONGCURTAIN CALLS/strong There is a sense of heavy reckoning on Broadway after nine productions, including "Hairspray," took their final bow on Sunday night.... Christopher Nolan, Rebecca Romijn, Laura Bush - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Rip Torn faces drunken driving charges in Conn. - Actor Rip Torn has pleaded not guilty to drunken driving charges in Connecticut, nearly two years after being fined and losing his license for similar charges in New York.... Arab-Israeli orchestra stops shows in Qatar, Egypt - Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and his orchestra of Arab and Israeli musicians have canceled performances in the Middle East this weekend because of fighting between Israel and Hamas, he said Tuesday.... Book review: 'The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death' - This novel is the writer Charlie Huston's almost entirely successful leap into crime fiction's mainstream.... Design loves a Depression - Few of the arts benefited from the late economic boom more than design, but a little austerity could give designers a new sense of relevance.... Barney Bubbles: Creating album sleeves that spoke volumes - Introspective and fragile, the British album-cover designer Barney Bubbles shunned publicity during his life. Now his work is being celebrated in "Reasons to be Cheerful," a book by Paul Gorman.... Google gives out-of-print books a new life online - Google's book search may allow writers to make money from titles that had been out of commercial circulation for years.... Mike Leigh, John Travolta, Sam Shephard - A roundup of the day's celebrity news... Funeral held for widow of 'Star Trek' creator - Funeral services were held for Majel Barrett Roddenberry, "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry's widow who played Nurse Christine Chapel in the original sci-fi TV series.... Puttin' off the ritz: The new austerity in publishing - Amid a relentless string of layoffs and pay-freeze announcements, book publishers are clamping down on some of the business's most glittery and cozy traditions.... Book review: 'Graham Greene: A Life in Letters' - "Graham Greene: A Life in Letters" traces, quite astonishingly, no refining of his sensibility and intelligence despite the British writer's vast and often exotic travel.... Universal sells movie unit for $150 million - The sale of Rogue Pictures, a maker and distributor of lower-cost films, to Relativity Media signifies further reordering in Hollywood's specialty movie business.... A bear saw around the corner - In "Mr. Market Miscalculates," James Grant serves up an edifying anthology of his previously published work from his much-read industry publication.... Michael Levey, British art historian, dies at 81 - Michael Levey, who presided over the expansion of the National Gallery in London as its director from 1973 through 1986, died on Sunday.... Danish writer Inger Christensen dies at age 73 - Inger Christensen's publisher says the Danish writer who built experimental poems, essays and novels around systematized and mathematical structures has died at age 73.... More US schools getting in tune with mariachi - Jose Perez often butted heads with his grandfather, who emigrated from Mexico years ago and feared his U.S.-born grandson didn't appreciate the sacrifices his family made. Then the teenager started playing the music of the elder's homeland.... Rooting for a people's opera, against the odds - New York City Opera's already daunting problems are unfolding amid the global economic crisis. Will it be able to weather the storms?... Book review: 'Things I've Been Silent About' - Azar Nafisi, author of 'Reading Lolita in Tehran' has written a second memoir, more intimate than the first, a dissection of her often difficult family life in Iran.... When talking heads are caught in scenes of silence - In "The Silent Echo Chamber" at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, in Springfield, Connecticut, the actor Harry Shearer displays video of celebrities and politicians in the minutes before appearing live on television.... 'Somebody': Admiring Brando, even at his worst - Why do the great ones so rarely have the capacity to handle their genius? Marlon Brando is not the first talent to invite the question, but Stefan Kanfer helps establish him as the all-time Exhibit A.... When, if ever, can museums sell their works? - The recent controversy over the decision by the National Academy Museum in New York to sell some of its works raises the question: Should the ban on selling art to cover operating costs be eased?... 'Hitler's Private Library': Searching Hitler's books for the roots of the Third Reich - In poring over Hitler's markings and marginalia in the remnants of his 16,000-volume library, Timothy W. Ryback seeks to reconstruct the steps by which he created his mental map of the world.... I'm trying to see all these movies. You want to talk? Go home! - Seeing all the films that may receive Oscar nods this season requires a single-mindedness bordering on mania.... Of time's passage and a child who grows from a man - "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" sighs with longing and simmers with intrigue while investigating the philosophical conundrums and emotional paradoxes of its protagonist's condition.... Holocaust facts and fictions - The dispute about a Holocaust survivor's invented love story raises questions about fictional touches in books and movies about a historic horror.... Oscar winners reflect Hollywood's priorities - If the Oscars aren't a reliable guide to artistic accomplishment, they provide an infallible index to how the leaders of the motion picture industry want their business to be seen in any given year.... I'm trying to see all these movies. You want to talk? Go home! - Seeing all the films that may receive Oscar nods this season requires a single-mindedness bordering on mania.... Putting the party spirit back into the Oscars - The producers for the 81st Academy Awards ceremony, set for Feb. 22, are Laurence Mark and Bill Condon, both New York-raised Hollywood transplants bitten long ago by the movie bug.... Chopin helps Nadia Reisenberg, a forgotten pianist, come back to life - She was best known as a teacher later in her life at the Juilliard School but a new CD set of her Chopin interpretations has revived interest in her early career as a concert pianist.... Putting the party spirit back into the Oscars - The producers for the 81st Academy Awards ceremony, set for Feb. 22, are Laurence Mark and Bill Condon, both New York-raised Hollywood transplants bitten long ago by the movie bug.... I'm trying to see all these movies. You want to talk? Go home! - Seeing all the films that may receive Oscar nods this season requires a single-mindedness bordering on mania.... Oscar winners reflect Hollywood's priorities - If the Oscars aren't a reliable guide to artistic accomplishment, they provide an infallible index to how the leaders of the motion picture industry want their business to be seen in any given year.... The 10 Best American Movies - It's Top Ten time again, and like everyone else Stanley Fish has a list, in his case a list of the 10 best American movies ever.... Spinoff of MTV reality series follows fashionista from California to New York - Whitney Port, star of the MTV series "The City," a spinoff from "The Hills," tries the Manhattan fashion scene after an early career in Hollywood.... Hope for a brighter future on a darker Broadway - STRONGCURTAIN CALLS/strong There is a sense of heavy reckoning on Broadway after nine productions, including "Hairspray," took their final bow on Sunday night.... Christopher Nolan, Rebecca Romijn, Laura Bush - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Rip Torn faces drunken driving charges in Conn. - Actor Rip Torn has pleaded not guilty to drunken driving charges in Connecticut, nearly two years after being fined and losing his license for similar charges in New York.... Arab-Israeli orchestra stops shows in Qatar, Egypt - Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and his orchestra of Arab and Israeli musicians have canceled performances in the Middle East this weekend because of fighting between Israel and Hamas, he said Tuesday.... Book review: 'The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death' - This novel is the writer Charlie Huston's almost entirely successful leap into crime fiction's mainstream.... Design loves a Depression - Few of the arts benefited from the late economic boom more than design, but a little austerity could give designers a new sense of relevance.... Barney Bubbles: Creating album sleeves that spoke volumes - Introspective and fragile, the British album-cover designer Barney Bubbles shunned publicity during his life. Now his work is being celebrated in "Reasons to be Cheerful," a book by Paul Gorman.... Google gives out-of-print books a new life online - Google's book search may allow writers to make money from titles that had been out of commercial circulation for years.... Mike Leigh, John Travolta, Sam Shephard - A roundup of the day's celebrity news... Funeral held for widow of 'Star Trek' creator - Funeral services were held for Majel Barrett Roddenberry, "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry's widow who played Nurse Christine Chapel in the original sci-fi TV series.... Puttin' off the ritz: The new austerity in publishing - Amid a relentless string of layoffs and pay-freeze announcements, book publishers are clamping down on some of the business's most glittery and cozy traditions.... Book review: 'Graham Greene: A Life in Letters' - "Graham Greene: A Life in Letters" traces, quite astonishingly, no refining of his sensibility and intelligence despite the British writer's vast and often exotic travel.... Universal sells movie unit for $150 million - The sale of Rogue Pictures, a maker and distributor of lower-cost films, to Relativity Media signifies further reordering in Hollywood's specialty movie business.... A bear saw around the corner - In "Mr. Market Miscalculates," James Grant serves up an edifying anthology of his previously published work from his much-read industry publication.... Michael Levey, British art historian, dies at 81 - Michael Levey, who presided over the expansion of the National Gallery in London as its director from 1973 through 1986, died on Sunday.... Danish writer Inger Christensen dies at age 73 - Inger Christensen's publisher says the Danish writer who built experimental poems, essays and novels around systematized and mathematical structures has died at age 73.... More US schools getting in tune with mariachi - Jose Perez often butted heads with his grandfather, who emigrated from Mexico years ago and feared his U.S.-born grandson didn't appreciate the sacrifices his family made. Then the teenager started playing the music of the elder's homeland.... Rooting for a people's opera, against the odds - New York City Opera's already daunting problems are unfolding amid the global economic crisis. Will it be able to weather the storms?... Book review: 'Things I've Been Silent About' - Azar Nafisi, author of 'Reading Lolita in Tehran' has written a second memoir, more intimate than the first, a dissection of her often difficult family life in Iran.... When talking heads are caught in scenes of silence - In "The Silent Echo Chamber" at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, in Springfield, Connecticut, the actor Harry Shearer displays video of celebrities and politicians in the minutes before appearing live on television.... 'Somebody': Admiring Brando, even at his worst - Why do the great ones so rarely have the capacity to handle their genius? Marlon Brando is not the first talent to invite the question, but Stefan Kanfer helps establish him as the all-time Exhibit A.... When, if ever, can museums sell their works? - The recent controversy over the decision by the National Academy Museum in New York to sell some of its works raises the question: Should the ban on selling art to cover operating costs be eased?... 'Hitler's Private Library': Searching Hitler's books for the roots of the Third Reich - In poring over Hitler's markings and marginalia in the remnants of his 16,000-volume library, Timothy W. Ryback seeks to reconstruct the steps by which he created his mental map of the world.... I'm trying to see all these movies. You want to talk? Go home! - Seeing all the films that may receive Oscar nods this season requires a single-mindedness bordering on mania.... Of time's passage and a child who grows from a man - "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" sighs with longing and simmers with intrigue while investigating the philosophical conundrums and emotional paradoxes of its protagonist's condition.... Holocaust facts and fictions - The dispute about a Holocaust survivor's invented love story raises questions about fictional touches in books and movies about a historic horror.... 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 ... Copyright © 2009, OkieWebs. All Rights Reserved. |