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Museums RSS FeedsMary Heilmann's winding, abstract road to success - A retrospective on the 40-year career of the abstract painter Mary Heilmann, titled "To Be Someone," begins the final leg of a U.S. tour in New York on Oct. 22....Feed Source: www.iht.com Madonna: A concert more aerobic than erotic - Time obsesses Madonna on her Sticky and Sweet Tour, which made its first American stop at the Izod Center in New Jersey.... War and sex: Who's afraid of Sarah Kane? - Soho Rep in New York is facing the challenge of staging Sarah Kane's "Blasted," a play bursting with audacious violence and wriggling with metaphor.... Bruce Springsteen, Anna Nicole Smith, B.B. King - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... 'Idol' LaKisha Jones weds in Beverly Hills - Former "American Idol" contestant LaKisha Jones has gotten married.... Miley Cyrus celebrates Sweet 16 at Disneyland - "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus' 16th birthday party was more boisterous than sweet.... Chrissie Hynde returns to her Ohio roots - The new album "Break Up the Concrete" by Chrissie Hynde's band the Pretenders is loose and scrappy, shot through with rockabilly and country.... Patrick Page: From Seuss to Shakespeare - Patrick Page has been known mostly for cartoonish roles since going to New York in 1993, but in regional theater he is known as a Shakespearean leading man.... Studios sue to bar a DVD copying program - Six major movie studios sued RealNetworks over its new software program that allows people to make digital copies of their DVDs.... Book reviews: "The General of the Dead Army" and "Like Eating a Stone" - A new translation of Ismail Kadare's haunting novel, and a nonfiction look at the aftermath of the Bosnian wars.... Using video games as bait to hook readers - Publishers, authors and even libraries are embracing video games to promote books to young readers.... Will American writers get a Nobel brushoff? - "Europe is still the center of the literary world," said Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, the organization that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize is to be awarded this week.... Ken Adam: Creating film sets that are more real than reality - "Ken Adam Designs the Movies," a new book on the work of the celebrated film production designer, recounts a 60-year career that spans 75 films, several operas, a video game and a shoal of honors including two Academy Awards.... Thomas Friedman's 'Hot, Flat and Crowded' - The author Thomas Friedman calls for government-led action to clean up the environment.... 'Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night': Brilliantly charting an artist's metamorphosis - The exhibition "Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night" on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York represents a new kind of blockbuster.... Julian Barnes muses on death ? and life - In " Nothing to be frightened of," Julian Barnes, an atheist turned agnostic, has decided at the age of 62 to address his fear of death - why should an agnostic fear death who has no faith in an afterlife?... Trent at the beginning of the 16th centuruy - Two exhibitions offer art from a period when two worlds, that of German and Italian speakers, the northern Gothic and southern Renaissance arts, coexisted, overlapped and intermingled.... Wong Kar-wai's phoenix project, rising at last - "Ashes of Time Redux" is a martical-arts movie that took years to film and more years to restore.... 'Body of Lies': Considering Iraq through an 'American archetype' - The Ridley Scott film hopes to attract American moviegoers - repeatedly proven to be allergic to matters revolving around Iraq and the war on terror - by being more of an "Everyman" spy thriller.... A candidate recaptures her image - The debate wasn't so much between the two participants as it was between the dueling images of Governor Sarah Palin.... Salma Hayek, James Earl Jones, Tina Turner - A roundup of today's celebrity news.... 3 men in court charged with publisher attack plot - Three men charged with plotting to attack the publisher of a novel about the Prophet Muhammad's child bride made a brief court appearance Friday after being charged with plotting to damage the offices of Gibson Square publishers.... Campaign Comedy: Thursday's late-night TV wrap-up - The vice presidential debate was the toast ? make that roast ? of late-night television, and that was before the event was held.... Book review: 'The Hemingses of Monticello' - In this historical inquiry, Annette Gordon-Reed examines the lives of Sally Hemings, widely considered the mother of children by Thomas Jefferson, and other members of her family.... David Lodge's 'Deaf Sentence' - "Deafness is comic, as blindness is tragic," claims Desmond Bates, the retired professor of linguistics who narrates David Lodge's consistently witty 13th novel, "Deaf Sentence."... Ian Buruma's 'The China Lover' - Ian Buruma's evocative novel, "The China Lover" spans roughly 50 years of Japan's tumultuous modern history.... 'Lion of Jordan' and 'King Hussein of Jordan' - "Lion of Jordan," by Avi Shlaim, a professor of international relations at the University of Oxford, and "King Hussein of Jordan," by Nigel Ashton, a senior lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, provide insight not only into the king but into the conflicts that ravaged the region during his lifetime.... Linda Robinson's 'Tell Me How This Ends' - Linda Robinson's "Tell Me How This Ends" is the first book about this new Iraq.... Singapore Biennale puts accent on wonder - The Singapore Biennale, running until Nov. 16, is one of several mega-art events currently taking place in Asia. In opting for the theme of "Wonder," it has naturally lent itself to aesthetically beautiful works.... Film review: 'Blindness' - A sudden outbreak of blindness in an unidentified city sets off a wave of panic.... 'Blindness': Glimpsing humanity as it fades into white - The director Fernando Meirelles takes a risk with his new movie, 'Blindness," by making an apocalyptic film that doesn't externalize our fears in the form of zombies, vampires or giant monsters of indeterminate origin.... Heather Locklear, Jude Law, Melissa Ethridge - The roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Pusan Film Festival opens amid Korean movie slump - One of Asia's top film festivals kicked off Thursday in this South Korean beach resort city with an eye toward shoring up a depressed domestic movie industry.... Book review: 'The Sacred Book of the Werewolf' - The novel is an encyclopedic catalogue of the author Victor Pelevin's philosophical and political thought wrapped in a fairy tale.... Michael Cera tries to keep fame at a distance - The young Canadian actor Michael Cera says he doesn't "really want to be famous" and is "scared that might be happening."... Believers, skeptics and a pool of sitting ducks - "Religulous" is a film that aims for laughs, not a scientific survey of the roots of faith.... Religulous: A militant comedy attacks organized religion - Larry Charles's new movie, "Religulous," which stars the HBO host Bill Maher, is a sometimes funny, sometimes cheap attack on organized religion.... Mary Heilmann's winding, abstract road to success - A retrospective on the 40-year career of the abstract painter Mary Heilmann, titled "To Be Someone," begins the final leg of a U.S. tour in New York on Oct. 22.... Madonna: A concert more aerobic than erotic - Time obsesses Madonna on her Sticky and Sweet Tour, which made its first American stop at the Izod Center in New Jersey.... War and sex: Who's afraid of Sarah Kane? - Soho Rep in New York is facing the challenge of staging Sarah Kane's "Blasted," a play bursting with audacious violence and wriggling with metaphor.... Bruce Springsteen, Anna Nicole Smith, B.B. King - A roundup of the day's celebrity news.... 'Idol' LaKisha Jones weds in Beverly Hills - Former "American Idol" contestant LaKisha Jones has gotten married.... Miley Cyrus celebrates Sweet 16 at Disneyland - "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus' 16th birthday party was more boisterous than sweet.... Chrissie Hynde returns to her Ohio roots - The new album "Break Up the Concrete" by Chrissie Hynde's band the Pretenders is loose and scrappy, shot through with rockabilly and country.... Patrick Page: From Seuss to Shakespeare - Patrick Page has been known mostly for cartoonish roles since going to New York in 1993, but in regional theater he is known as a Shakespearean leading man.... Studios sue to bar a DVD copying program - Six major movie studios sued RealNetworks over its new software program that allows people to make digital copies of their DVDs.... Book reviews: "The General of the Dead Army" and "Like Eating a Stone" - A new translation of Ismail Kadare's haunting novel, and a nonfiction look at the aftermath of the Bosnian wars.... Using video games as bait to hook readers - Publishers, authors and even libraries are embracing video games to promote books to young readers.... Will American writers get a Nobel brushoff? - "Europe is still the center of the literary world," said Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, the organization that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize is to be awarded this week.... Ken Adam: Creating film sets that are more real than reality - "Ken Adam Designs the Movies," a new book on the work of the celebrated film production designer, recounts a 60-year career that spans 75 films, several operas, a video game and a shoal of honors including two Academy Awards.... Thomas Friedman's 'Hot, Flat and Crowded' - The author Thomas Friedman calls for government-led action to clean up the environment.... 'Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night': Brilliantly charting an artist's metamorphosis - The exhibition "Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night" on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York represents a new kind of blockbuster.... Julian Barnes muses on death ? and life - In " Nothing to be frightened of," Julian Barnes, an atheist turned agnostic, has decided at the age of 62 to address his fear of death - why should an agnostic fear death who has no faith in an afterlife?... Trent at the beginning of the 16th centuruy - Two exhibitions offer art from a period when two worlds, that of German and Italian speakers, the northern Gothic and southern Renaissance arts, coexisted, overlapped and intermingled.... Wong Kar-wai's phoenix project, rising at last - "Ashes of Time Redux" is a martical-arts movie that took years to film and more years to restore.... 'Body of Lies': Considering Iraq through an 'American archetype' - The Ridley Scott film hopes to attract American moviegoers - repeatedly proven to be allergic to matters revolving around Iraq and the war on terror - by being more of an "Everyman" spy thriller.... A candidate recaptures her image - The debate wasn't so much between the two participants as it was between the dueling images of Governor Sarah Palin.... Salma Hayek, James Earl Jones, Tina Turner - A roundup of today's celebrity news.... 3 men in court charged with publisher attack plot - Three men charged with plotting to attack the publisher of a novel about the Prophet Muhammad's child bride made a brief court appearance Friday after being charged with plotting to damage the offices of Gibson Square publishers.... Campaign Comedy: Thursday's late-night TV wrap-up - The vice presidential debate was the toast ? make that roast ? of late-night television, and that was before the event was held.... Book review: 'The Hemingses of Monticello' - In this historical inquiry, Annette Gordon-Reed examines the lives of Sally Hemings, widely considered the mother of children by Thomas Jefferson, and other members of her family.... David Lodge's 'Deaf Sentence' - "Deafness is comic, as blindness is tragic," claims Desmond Bates, the retired professor of linguistics who narrates David Lodge's consistently witty 13th novel, "Deaf Sentence."... Ian Buruma's 'The China Lover' - Ian Buruma's evocative novel, "The China Lover" spans roughly 50 years of Japan's tumultuous modern history.... 'Lion of Jordan' and 'King Hussein of Jordan' - "Lion of Jordan," by Avi Shlaim, a professor of international relations at the University of Oxford, and "King Hussein of Jordan," by Nigel Ashton, a senior lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, provide insight not only into the king but into the conflicts that ravaged the region during his lifetime.... Linda Robinson's 'Tell Me How This Ends' - Linda Robinson's "Tell Me How This Ends" is the first book about this new Iraq.... Singapore Biennale puts accent on wonder - The Singapore Biennale, running until Nov. 16, is one of several mega-art events currently taking place in Asia. In opting for the theme of "Wonder," it has naturally lent itself to aesthetically beautiful works.... Film review: 'Blindness' - A sudden outbreak of blindness in an unidentified city sets off a wave of panic.... 'Blindness': Glimpsing humanity as it fades into white - The director Fernando Meirelles takes a risk with his new movie, 'Blindness," by making an apocalyptic film that doesn't externalize our fears in the form of zombies, vampires or giant monsters of indeterminate origin.... Heather Locklear, Jude Law, Melissa Ethridge - The roundup of the day's celebrity news.... Pusan Film Festival opens amid Korean movie slump - One of Asia's top film festivals kicked off Thursday in this South Korean beach resort city with an eye toward shoring up a depressed domestic movie industry.... Book review: 'The Sacred Book of the Werewolf' - The novel is an encyclopedic catalogue of the author Victor Pelevin's philosophical and political thought wrapped in a fairy tale.... Michael Cera tries to keep fame at a distance - The young Canadian actor Michael Cera says he doesn't "really want to be famous" and is "scared that might be happening."... Believers, skeptics and a pool of sitting ducks - "Religulous" is a film that aims for laughs, not a scientific survey of the roots of faith.... Religulous: A militant comedy attacks organized religion - Larry Charles's new movie, "Religulous," which stars the HBO host Bill Maher, is a sometimes funny, sometimes cheap attack on organized religion.... 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, Chicago Best Price. All Rights Reserved. |