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Museums RSS FeedsMaverick animators draw for the adults - An insurgent element of artists in the United States continues to make animation for adults, often with traditional methods of pencil and film....Feed Source: www.iht.com 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.... London theater: An exhilarating 'August: Osage County' and an excellent 'The Pride' - The British premiere of "August: Osage County" by Tracy Letts reminds a British public that the American theater can do heavy lifting, too. Alexi Kaye Campbell's "The Pride" marks the debut of a fledgling writer whose voice on this evidence is fully formed.... Elvis Costello, the TV host of a music talk show - Elvis Costello is the host and the musical director of a music-oriented talk show debuting Dec. 3 on the Sundance Channel.... 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.... Britney Spears, Mark Leckey, Travis Barker - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Forget Citigroup, a California puppet show needs a bailout - California's economy has taken a toll on a marionette puppet theater that has enchanted children over nearly five decades.... A concession wrapped in an acceptance - For some viewers, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech was the moment when she finally conceded the election for real.... An ownership battle for a cache of Mexican art - Somewhere a great collection of 20th-century Mexican art has been hidden as a legal battle unfolds over the collection's rightful ownership.... Can Liza Minnelli pull off another comeback? - Her new show, called "Liza's at the Palace ," opens Wednesday in New York and Minnelli says she's "calmer and more focused" these days.... A less friendly Hollywood club - Under a new admissions policy, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, once the chummiest club in show business, is becoming more artsy and indie-minded.... The Oscar silly season kicks into gear - In the past two weeks the producers, actors and directors of this season's contenders have been traveling between Los Angeles and New York, holding star-studded screenings, indulging in lavish parties and all but licking the faces of media types and Academy voters in hopes of gaining that ineffable edge.... Book review: 'Alex & Me' - Irene M. Pepperberg writes about her three-decade-long relationship with Alex, the parrot who could identify objects by their color, size and material, and do basic addition.... Design: Limited-edition furniture is feeling the crunch - As the economic crisis has deepened, the once buoyant "design-art" market has floundered. It likely to be especially vulnerable as a young sector where many galleries have never experienced a downturn before.... Winona Ryder, Madonna, Danny Boyle - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Report: China blocks Japan-flavored Taiwan film - China has reversed its decision to import a hit Taiwanese film that highlights Japan's 50-year colonial rule over the island because it may be offensive to nationalist sentiment on the Chinese mainland, news reports said.... In search of the real 'Billy the Kid' - in 'Lucky Billy,' John Vernon has taken what is known about the life of Billy the Kid and filled the wide gaps with fiction.... Kirsten Menger-Anderson's 'Doctor Olaf Van Schuler's Brain' - An overweening confidence in doctors, despite medicine's many missteps and harrowing history, pulses through Kirsten Menger-Anderson's first story collection.... Gordon Goldstein's 'Lessons in Disaster' - In "Lessons in Disaster" McGeorge Bundy emerges as the most interesting figure in the Vietnam tragedy - less for his unfortunate part in prosecuting the war than for his agonized search 30 years later to understand himself.... The Oscar silly season kicks into gear - In the past two weeks the producers, actors and directors of this season's contenders have been traveling between Los Angeles and New York, holding star-studded screenings, indulging in lavish parties and all but licking the faces of media types and Academy voters in hopes of gaining that ineffable edge.... 'Four Christmases' is tart but cheery; 'Transporter 3' does little for the franchise - 'Four Christmases' forgos the usual seasonal schmaltz and instead is tart and lean; 'Transporter 3' is much like its two predecessors.... Sydney Opera House's designer dies - Jorn Utzon, a Danish architect who designed one of the world's most recognizable buildings but never saw it finished, is dead. He was 90.... Book Reviews: 'Medical Miracles,' '7 Wheelchairs,' and 'The Sun and the Moon' - Two books - by Jacalyn Duffin and Gary Presley - explore medical miracles; while Matthew Goodman revisits a 19th-century newspaper hoax that took in readers of The Sun in New York.... Toni Morrison: The pastoral as a place far from Eden - In 'A Mercy' Toni Morrison performs her deepest excavation yet into America's history and exhumes our twin original sins: the enslavement of Africans and the near extermination of Native Americans.... Maverick animators draw for the adults - An insurgent element of artists in the United States continues to make animation for adults, often with traditional methods of pencil and 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.... London theater: An exhilarating 'August: Osage County' and an excellent 'The Pride' - The British premiere of "August: Osage County" by Tracy Letts reminds a British public that the American theater can do heavy lifting, too. Alexi Kaye Campbell's "The Pride" marks the debut of a fledgling writer whose voice on this evidence is fully formed.... Elvis Costello, the TV host of a music talk show - Elvis Costello is the host and the musical director of a music-oriented talk show debuting Dec. 3 on the Sundance Channel.... 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.... Britney Spears, Mark Leckey, Travis Barker - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Forget Citigroup, a California puppet show needs a bailout - California's economy has taken a toll on a marionette puppet theater that has enchanted children over nearly five decades.... A concession wrapped in an acceptance - For some viewers, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech was the moment when she finally conceded the election for real.... An ownership battle for a cache of Mexican art - Somewhere a great collection of 20th-century Mexican art has been hidden as a legal battle unfolds over the collection's rightful ownership.... Can Liza Minnelli pull off another comeback? - Her new show, called "Liza's at the Palace ," opens Wednesday in New York and Minnelli says she's "calmer and more focused" these days.... A less friendly Hollywood club - Under a new admissions policy, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, once the chummiest club in show business, is becoming more artsy and indie-minded.... The Oscar silly season kicks into gear - In the past two weeks the producers, actors and directors of this season's contenders have been traveling between Los Angeles and New York, holding star-studded screenings, indulging in lavish parties and all but licking the faces of media types and Academy voters in hopes of gaining that ineffable edge.... Book review: 'Alex & Me' - Irene M. Pepperberg writes about her three-decade-long relationship with Alex, the parrot who could identify objects by their color, size and material, and do basic addition.... Design: Limited-edition furniture is feeling the crunch - As the economic crisis has deepened, the once buoyant "design-art" market has floundered. It likely to be especially vulnerable as a young sector where many galleries have never experienced a downturn before.... Winona Ryder, Madonna, Danny Boyle - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Report: China blocks Japan-flavored Taiwan film - China has reversed its decision to import a hit Taiwanese film that highlights Japan's 50-year colonial rule over the island because it may be offensive to nationalist sentiment on the Chinese mainland, news reports said.... In search of the real 'Billy the Kid' - in 'Lucky Billy,' John Vernon has taken what is known about the life of Billy the Kid and filled the wide gaps with fiction.... Kirsten Menger-Anderson's 'Doctor Olaf Van Schuler's Brain' - An overweening confidence in doctors, despite medicine's many missteps and harrowing history, pulses through Kirsten Menger-Anderson's first story collection.... Gordon Goldstein's 'Lessons in Disaster' - In "Lessons in Disaster" McGeorge Bundy emerges as the most interesting figure in the Vietnam tragedy - less for his unfortunate part in prosecuting the war than for his agonized search 30 years later to understand himself.... The Oscar silly season kicks into gear - In the past two weeks the producers, actors and directors of this season's contenders have been traveling between Los Angeles and New York, holding star-studded screenings, indulging in lavish parties and all but licking the faces of media types and Academy voters in hopes of gaining that ineffable edge.... 'Four Christmases' is tart but cheery; 'Transporter 3' does little for the franchise - 'Four Christmases' forgos the usual seasonal schmaltz and instead is tart and lean; 'Transporter 3' is much like its two predecessors.... Sydney Opera House's designer dies - Jorn Utzon, a Danish architect who designed one of the world's most recognizable buildings but never saw it finished, is dead. He was 90.... Book Reviews: 'Medical Miracles,' '7 Wheelchairs,' and 'The Sun and the Moon' - Two books - by Jacalyn Duffin and Gary Presley - explore medical miracles; while Matthew Goodman revisits a 19th-century newspaper hoax that took in readers of The Sun in New York.... Toni Morrison: The pastoral as a place far from Eden - In 'A Mercy' Toni Morrison performs her deepest excavation yet into America's history and exhumes our twin original sins: the enslavement of Africans and the near extermination of Native Americans.... 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, Blurbosphere.com. All Rights Reserved. |