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Museums RSS FeedsEmmanuelle Devos: Growing up in Desplechin's 'family' of obsessed characters - Emmanuelle Devos is once again in playing in a film by Arnaud Desplechin, this time "Un conte de Noël," a wild Christmas story, which opened Friday at Cannes....Feed Source: www.iht.com A measure of caution as Cannes Film Festival opens - Everyone may be expecting the bounty of good and even great films from around the world over the next 12 days, but the excitement is tempered by a sense that those films are facing unusually difficult prospects back in the United States.... Cannes: From horrors of war to a brutish tale of blindness - Cannes has a tradition of shaking audiences up, and this year that slot was occupied by the powerhouse film, "Waltz With Bashir," written and directed by Ari Folman. Bad openers are another Cannes tradition, so it wasn't much of a surprise that "Blindness" by Fernando Meirelles is such a misfire.... A measure of caution as Cannes Film Festival opens - Everyone may be expecting the bounty of good and even great films from around the world over the next 12 days, but the excitement is tempered by a sense that those films are facing unusually difficult prospects back in the United States.... Market exuberance surprises even the professionals - The auctions this week at Christie's and Sotheby's of contemporary art have no precedent in art market history. The sales - $348.23 million at Christies and $362.03 million at Sotheby's - were huge.... $86 million for a Bacon triptych leads record sales at Sotheby's - Six world auction records were set at Sotheby's. They included works by Takashi Murakami, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselmann and Francis Bacon.... Contemporary art sale nets $348.26 million - The sale at Christie's in New York was surprisingly strong given the bleak economic context. It included works by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.... Jeffrey Sachs's call to arms to avert global disaster - In his new book, "Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet," Sachs argues that our "global society will flourish or perish according to our ability to find common ground across the world on a set of shared objectives and on the practical means to achieve them."... People: Ellen DeGeneres, Madonna, Hugh Grant - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... "Netherland" by Joseph O'Neill: A review - "Netherland" is the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we've yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell.... Architectural design and the Manhattan preservationists - You have to pity any architect who appears before the landmarks committee of the Upper East Side's community board. Packed with amateur preservationists, it is notoriously averse to anything new.... "The Horse": A New York homage - The American Museum of Natural History exhibit relies less on country fair spectacle and more on a provocative history of the ways in which humans and horses became, as the show says, "powerfully linked."... Museum kills live exhibit - A "living coat" made out of mice stem cells had to be killed before it grew out of control.... An ebay seller's memoir. About handbags. - "Bringing Home the Birkin" could have brought home some very important truths about our times. But that might have gotten in the way of a potential movie deal.... Rabih Alameddine's 'The Hakawati' - If any work of fiction might be powerful enough to transcend the mountain of polemic, historical inquiry, policy analysis and reportage that stands between the Western reader and the Arab soul, it's this wonder of a book.... Hollywood private investigator is found guilty in wiretapping case - The Hollywood private investigator, Anthony Pellicano, was found guilty in a U.S. court in Los Angeles of racketeering for using wiretaps and other tactics to target the rich and famous.... Vincent Cassel as France's 'Public Enemy Number One' - "Public Enemy Number One" stars Cassel as Jacques Mesrine, the legendary bandit of the 1970s in France; the first images of the two-part movie are being shown to select professionals at Cannes.... A measure of caution as Cannes Film Festival opens - Everyone may be expecting the bounty of good and even great films from around the world over the next 12 days, but the excitement is tempered by a sense that those films are facing unusually difficult prospects back in the United States.... $86 million for a Bacon triptych leads record sales at Sotheby's - Six world auction records were set at Sotheby's. They included works by Takashi Murakami, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselmann and Francis Bacon.... Contemporary art sale nets $348.26 million - The sale at Christie's in New York was surprisingly strong given the bleak economic context. It included works by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.... People: Angelina Jolie, Paul McCartney, Leonard Cohen - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... High court delays ruling on Madonna adoption - Malawi's High Court has delayed its final ruling on whether Madonna may adopt a two-year-old Malawian boy until next week, her lawyer said on Thursday.... "Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," a graver fantasy - The second installment in the "Chronicles of Narnia" franchise, "Prince Caspian," with murder, betrayal and a grave, martial atmosphere, is quite a bit darker than "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," but is in some ways more satisfying.... Ben Barnes: An unknown on the brink of fame - The British actor will star in Walt Disney's "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" - a role that is certain to bring him global fame.... People: Pete Doherty, Britney Spears, Michael Moore - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Rauschenberg and dance, partners for life - Something inherently theatrical about him prompted Rauschenberg to his boldest, freshest conceptions on stage.... Robert Rauschenberg, titan of American art, dies at 82 - The irrepressibly prolific artist, who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died Monday night.... New York opera fans warily await arrival of Gérard Mortier - Gérard Mortier, director of the Paris National Opera, will soon take over at the New York City Opera. His provocative productions, notably Johann Strauss's "Fledermaus" in Salzburg in 2001, have at times scandalized opera patrons.... Erykah Badu's whirling cosmic tour - Badu performed at Radio City Music Hall last weekend in New York as part of her Vortex Tour, showing off her eccentric pop cosmos, which encompasses silliness and hard-nosed realism, idealism and bawdiness, choreography and whim, R&B and hip-hop, funk and jazz.... An unlikely cast of contenders for Tonys - Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical "In the Heights" and Stew's "Passing Strange" are considered the shows to beat in the Tony race, with Douglas Carter Beane's musical, "Xanadu," actually in contention for a nomination.... King, Mitchell, Simon: A musical journey - In "Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation," Sheila Weller weaves the biographies of the singer-songwriters into a post-feminist history, and reveals the three as heavily indebted to traditional pop and its quasi-religious faith in romantic love.... Best-selling book brings back painful memories for Simon - Carly Simon didn't find it easy reading "Girls Like Us," the nonfiction best-seller which interweaves her life story with those of fellow singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell and Carole King.... "Bright Shiny Morning" - In his new novel James Frey lets the little vignette play out against a big, gaudy, dangerous Southern California backdrop, full of drug-dealing gang-bangers, full of schemers, phonies, rich with a history of robber barons, all of it stacking the deck against any generosity of spirit.... Paris Opera Ballet tackles Balanchine, Nureyev and Forsythe - The huge contemporary space of the Bastille Opera House proved a spectacular setting for the current program of works by George Balanchine, Rudolf Nureyev and William Forsythe, on an evening that also saw the final performance of Wilfried Romoli, one of the company's stars.... Artworks by noted psychedelic artists go on sale at New York auction - A collection of original art by noted psychedelic artists, depicting some of the biggest names in rock 'n' roll, is going on the auction block Wednesday.... Emmanuelle Devos: Growing up in Desplechin's 'family' of obsessed characters - Emmanuelle Devos is once again in playing in a film by Arnaud Desplechin, this time "Un conte de Noël," a wild Christmas story, which opened Friday at Cannes.... A measure of caution as Cannes Film Festival opens - Everyone may be expecting the bounty of good and even great films from around the world over the next 12 days, but the excitement is tempered by a sense that those films are facing unusually difficult prospects back in the United States.... Cannes: From horrors of war to a brutish tale of blindness - Cannes has a tradition of shaking audiences up, and this year that slot was occupied by the powerhouse film, "Waltz With Bashir," written and directed by Ari Folman. Bad openers are another Cannes tradition, so it wasn't much of a surprise that "Blindness" by Fernando Meirelles is such a misfire.... A measure of caution as Cannes Film Festival opens - Everyone may be expecting the bounty of good and even great films from around the world over the next 12 days, but the excitement is tempered by a sense that those films are facing unusually difficult prospects back in the United States.... Market exuberance surprises even the professionals - The auctions this week at Christie's and Sotheby's of contemporary art have no precedent in art market history. The sales - $348.23 million at Christies and $362.03 million at Sotheby's - were huge.... $86 million for a Bacon triptych leads record sales at Sotheby's - Six world auction records were set at Sotheby's. They included works by Takashi Murakami, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselmann and Francis Bacon.... Contemporary art sale nets $348.26 million - The sale at Christie's in New York was surprisingly strong given the bleak economic context. It included works by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.... Jeffrey Sachs's call to arms to avert global disaster - In his new book, "Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet," Sachs argues that our "global society will flourish or perish according to our ability to find common ground across the world on a set of shared objectives and on the practical means to achieve them."... People: Ellen DeGeneres, Madonna, Hugh Grant - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... "Netherland" by Joseph O'Neill: A review - "Netherland" is the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we've yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell.... Architectural design and the Manhattan preservationists - You have to pity any architect who appears before the landmarks committee of the Upper East Side's community board. Packed with amateur preservationists, it is notoriously averse to anything new.... "The Horse": A New York homage - The American Museum of Natural History exhibit relies less on country fair spectacle and more on a provocative history of the ways in which humans and horses became, as the show says, "powerfully linked."... Museum kills live exhibit - A "living coat" made out of mice stem cells had to be killed before it grew out of control.... An ebay seller's memoir. About handbags. - "Bringing Home the Birkin" could have brought home some very important truths about our times. But that might have gotten in the way of a potential movie deal.... Rabih Alameddine's 'The Hakawati' - If any work of fiction might be powerful enough to transcend the mountain of polemic, historical inquiry, policy analysis and reportage that stands between the Western reader and the Arab soul, it's this wonder of a book.... Hollywood private investigator is found guilty in wiretapping case - The Hollywood private investigator, Anthony Pellicano, was found guilty in a U.S. court in Los Angeles of racketeering for using wiretaps and other tactics to target the rich and famous.... Vincent Cassel as France's 'Public Enemy Number One' - "Public Enemy Number One" stars Cassel as Jacques Mesrine, the legendary bandit of the 1970s in France; the first images of the two-part movie are being shown to select professionals at Cannes.... A measure of caution as Cannes Film Festival opens - Everyone may be expecting the bounty of good and even great films from around the world over the next 12 days, but the excitement is tempered by a sense that those films are facing unusually difficult prospects back in the United States.... $86 million for a Bacon triptych leads record sales at Sotheby's - Six world auction records were set at Sotheby's. They included works by Takashi Murakami, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselmann and Francis Bacon.... Contemporary art sale nets $348.26 million - The sale at Christie's in New York was surprisingly strong given the bleak economic context. It included works by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.... People: Angelina Jolie, Paul McCartney, Leonard Cohen - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... High court delays ruling on Madonna adoption - Malawi's High Court has delayed its final ruling on whether Madonna may adopt a two-year-old Malawian boy until next week, her lawyer said on Thursday.... "Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," a graver fantasy - The second installment in the "Chronicles of Narnia" franchise, "Prince Caspian," with murder, betrayal and a grave, martial atmosphere, is quite a bit darker than "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," but is in some ways more satisfying.... Ben Barnes: An unknown on the brink of fame - The British actor will star in Walt Disney's "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" - a role that is certain to bring him global fame.... People: Pete Doherty, Britney Spears, Michael Moore - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Rauschenberg and dance, partners for life - Something inherently theatrical about him prompted Rauschenberg to his boldest, freshest conceptions on stage.... Robert Rauschenberg, titan of American art, dies at 82 - The irrepressibly prolific artist, who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died Monday night.... New York opera fans warily await arrival of Gérard Mortier - Gérard Mortier, director of the Paris National Opera, will soon take over at the New York City Opera. His provocative productions, notably Johann Strauss's "Fledermaus" in Salzburg in 2001, have at times scandalized opera patrons.... Erykah Badu's whirling cosmic tour - Badu performed at Radio City Music Hall last weekend in New York as part of her Vortex Tour, showing off her eccentric pop cosmos, which encompasses silliness and hard-nosed realism, idealism and bawdiness, choreography and whim, R&B and hip-hop, funk and jazz.... An unlikely cast of contenders for Tonys - Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical "In the Heights" and Stew's "Passing Strange" are considered the shows to beat in the Tony race, with Douglas Carter Beane's musical, "Xanadu," actually in contention for a nomination.... King, Mitchell, Simon: A musical journey - In "Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation," Sheila Weller weaves the biographies of the singer-songwriters into a post-feminist history, and reveals the three as heavily indebted to traditional pop and its quasi-religious faith in romantic love.... Best-selling book brings back painful memories for Simon - Carly Simon didn't find it easy reading "Girls Like Us," the nonfiction best-seller which interweaves her life story with those of fellow singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell and Carole King.... "Bright Shiny Morning" - In his new novel James Frey lets the little vignette play out against a big, gaudy, dangerous Southern California backdrop, full of drug-dealing gang-bangers, full of schemers, phonies, rich with a history of robber barons, all of it stacking the deck against any generosity of spirit.... Paris Opera Ballet tackles Balanchine, Nureyev and Forsythe - The huge contemporary space of the Bastille Opera House proved a spectacular setting for the current program of works by George Balanchine, Rudolf Nureyev and William Forsythe, on an evening that also saw the final performance of Wilfried Romoli, one of the company's stars.... Artworks by noted psychedelic artists go on sale at New York auction - A collection of original art by noted psychedelic artists, depicting some of the biggest names in rock 'n' roll, is going on the auction block Wednesday.... 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, Magic Maldives. All Rights Reserved. |