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Up on the roof of NY’s Met museum in “Cloud City”

May 16th, 2012 Comments(0)

Up on the roof of NY's Met museum in NEW YORK (Reuters) – Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno combines art, architecture and science in a striking installation on the rooftop garden of The Metropolitan Museum of Art that gives visitors a different perspective of the sky, clouds and the city around them. “Cloud City,” which opens on Tuesday and runs for six months, is a giant jumble of interconnecting modules, measuring 54 feet long and 28 feet high, that rises to varying levels and incorporates reflective materials, mirrors and glass with New York’s skyline and Central Park as the backdrop. …


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Santa Fe festival will honor Navajo artist

May 15th, 2012 Comments(0)

In this April 18, 2012 photo, Navajo artist Tony Abeyta poses for a photograph in his studio in Santa Fe, N.M. The 46-year-old painter and jewelry designer is being honored as a Artist Tony Abeyta just can’t help himself.


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Detroit orchestra hopes Kid Rock show raises $1M

May 14th, 2012 Comments(0)

FILE - In a Jan. 15, 2011 file photo, Kid Rock performs at Ford Field in Detroit. The musician is known for dabbling in all kinds of musical genres: hip-hop, hard rock, country and Southern rock. Classical? Not so much. But he jumped at the chance to play a show with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, May 12, 2012. The concert is designed to raise some much-needed cash for the DSO, which has been on shaky financial ground in recent years. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)This time last year, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra was about a month removed from a contentious musicians’ strike that worsened its already strained finances. Now, the rebounding organization aims to raise the roof — and hopefully $1 million — with help from a hometown musician known more for rock, rap and country than classical.


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Estonia to open maritime museum in seaplane hangar

May 13th, 2012 Comments(0)

A British-built submarine dating from the 1930s is on display in a maritime museum to be unveiled in Tallinn, Estonia, Friday, May 11, 2012. Estonia is set to open the Baltic states' largest maritime museum in a hanger once used by Charles Lindbergh. The unique concrete hangar housing the museum was built in 1916-17 when Estonia was part of czarist Russia. Its most famous guest was U.S. aviator Charles Lindbergh, who flew there from Moscow in 1933 as part of his tour around Europe. (AP Photo/Timur Nisametdinov)Estonia will open the Baltic states’ largest maritime museum in a hangar once used by Charles Lindbergh.


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Artist Kapoor finds beauty in London’s Olympic orbit

May 13th, 2012 Comments(0)

The designers of the ArcelorMittal Orbit, Cecil Balmond and Anish Kapoor, pose for photographs at the top of the ArcelorMittal Orbit in the London 2012 Olympic Park in east LondonLONDON (Reuters) – Turner prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor said on Friday that Britons would grow to love his spiraling red tower on London’s Olympic Park, just as people had come to appreciate other structures initially loathed, including the Eiffel Tower. The 115-metre tall structure, higher than London’s Big Ben and New York’s Statue of Liberty has divided opinion, with some describing it as resembling a carnival slide or a water pipe. …


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