May 18, 2012 • 4:28 am 0
Donna Summer, the multimillion-selling singer and songwriter whose hits captured both the giddy hedonism of the 1970s disco era and the feisty female solidarity of the early 1980s, died on Thursday at her …
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April 28, 2012 • 1:58 am 0
The Center held its second installment of The Conversations on Philanthropy series at The Paley Center for Media on February 9, 2012. USC’s Dana Gioia and Steven Lavine, President of the California Institute of the Arts, led a captivating discussion on philanthropy and the arts. The Center initiates this intimate series to bring together various segments of philanthropy –foundation executives, family foundation trustees, and individual donors–with noted experts in the field to discuss issues of keen interest.
View a video of the Conversation,
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April 19, 2012 • 1:09 am 0
In a Pentagon hallway hung an austere portrait of a Navy man lost at sea in 1908, with his brass buttons, blue-knit uniform and what looks like …
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February 22, 2012 • 6:09 am 0
It has adorned everything from mugs and t-shirts to key chains, anti-George Bush campaign buttons, inflatable dolls and iPad covers. Now a version of Edvard Munch’s celebrated painting “The Scream’’ will be up for sale at …
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February 17, 2012 • 6:34 am 0
It’s rare these days, at any time really, to encounter a play which owes nothing to theatrical influences and which exists as a singular …
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February 11, 2012 • 6:55 pm 0
New York Times photographer Samuel Aranda was announced the winner of the iconic World Press Photo competition on Friday.
The 55th annual jury of the World Press Photo contest selected Aranda’s photograph of a woman consoling an injured male relative in …
MORE via World Press Photo Of The Year: Samuel Aranda, New York Times Photographer, Wins Award (PHOTO).
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February 9, 2012 • 5:13 am 1
Do you have a special geek in your life? Then don’t send them an ordinary card this Valentine’s Day — mail them an awesome geeky design that will speak right to their heart.
We have trawled Etsy for some fresh options for 2012 and found 10 geek-tastic designs …
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January 27, 2012 • 9:57 pm 0
“The buzz means nothing,” said Robert Redford as his Sundance Film Festival opened in this luxury ski town last week. “Wait until it’s over, and see what …
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January 19, 2012 • 8:10 am 0
MAYOR Bloomberg cut the ribbon and waiters poured the champagne in celebration of the opening of the third and final phase of the renewed, refreshed and expanded American wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The ambitious roll out began in 2007 with the opening of galleries devoted to early 19th-century neo-classical art. In 2009 came the spacious, light-drenched Charles Engelhard Court with big sculptures and a huge, imposing bank facade. That was also the year the refurbished and wonderfully atmospheric period rooms re-opened. All that is on the museum’s ground floor; a snazzy glass elevator now brings visitors upstairs to the latest renovation, where 26 galleries occupy 30,000 square feet (10% more than before). Its opening is the highlight of New York’s annual Americana week, which includes specialist auctions and gallery shows.
This year the background noise is full of speechifying about America in the crowded race to become the Republican presidential nominee. Indeed these galleries themselves raise some uncomfortable questions about what it means to be American. But we will get to that
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January 15, 2012 • 6:39 am 0
SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in.
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December 28, 2011 • 5:22 am 0
THE industrial revolution of the late 18th century made possible the mass production of goods, thereby creating economies of scale which changed the economy—and society—in ways that nobody could have imagined at the time. Now a new manufacturing technology has emerged which does the opposite. Three-dimensional printing makes it as cheap to create single items as it is to produce thousands and thus undermines …
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December 28, 2011 • 5:17 am 0
When taken as a whole, was 2011 any funnier than 2010? In all honesty, it’s hard to even remember what …
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