9/11 anniversary: lockdown as New York is able to prepare to mark this fateful day

9/11: the tragedy that engulfed our fathers

Smoke and ash engulf lower Manhattan on 9/11

Manhattan is definitely a busy place. It’s frequently gridlocked and it is people are utilized to hustling their way through crowded roads and subways. But on Saturday it had been different.

As New You are able to ready to mark the tenth anniversary from the 9/11 attacks, a brand new terror alert provided a harsh indication that the decade of war and struggle hasn’t removed the threat.

The visible evidence was throughout New You are able to. Within the wake of the unconfirmed but scarily specific threat that three terrorists, apt to be striving to utilize a vehicle or truck explosive device, had joined the nation to fight the The Big Apple, the town went right into a type of security lockdown.

The lines of cars, yellow cabs and trucks snaking lower Manhattan’s lengthy avenues were triggered not through the usual dashes interior and exterior the town, but by police checkpoints. These were set on the Brooklyn bridge, about the tunnels underneath the Hudson river and outdoors Manhattan’s primary train stations. Continue reading

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Museum of Liverpool - review


Just how can this have happened? How could so manyitive words “regeneration”, “vision”culture” plus a lot private and public funding, plus a lot scrutiny by physiques like the Commission for Archture and also the Buinvironment, have brought as to the now stands on Liverpool’s waterfront? How could a lot of noble game titles %u2013 Unesco world heritage site, capital of culture, the “Three Graces” %u2013 happen to be presented on which is, to utilize a sophisticated critical term, a godawful mess?

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Picasso to make biggest impression at Sotheby’s sale.

A Picasso very similar to a painting which, if it wasn’t for a billionaire’s unfortunate elbow, would have become the most expensive work of art ever, is to appear at auction in London next month.

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From Morandi to Guttuso: Masterpieces from the Alberto Della Ragione Collection – review

There was a time when the ownership of art was associated with discrimination, passion, perhaps even virtue. Such notions are long gone, if they actually survived the Medici. Even before the typical collector became a turbo-capitalist advised by consultants on the best investment, the idea that high art necessarily equates with moral sensibility was terminally weakened. Everyone knows that Hermann Goering was a devoted collector.

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Modern British Sculpture in the Royal Academy - review

Most museum site visitors could be hard-pressed to nameingle British sculpprior to Henry MooAny quantity of pre-twentieth century designers might appear in a game title of Trivial Pursuit: Capacity Brown, Josiah Wedgwood and Thomas Chippendale, for instance. But sculptors? Because the art critic Roger Fry authored in 1934, “there’s no title of sufficient resonance to increase instantly to the minds”. It had been only because of the worldwide pre-eminence of Moore as well as other more youthful sculptors there emerged within the nineteen fifties a belief that there can be a unique and distinguished British school of sculpture. Moore’s achievement appeared even more amazing due to the assumption he was preceded with a sculptural dark age.

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Mona Lisa’s eyes: should we feel individuals Da Vinci tales?

Leonardo da Vinci may have died in 1519, but he’s forever in news reviews. To have an excellentsoe might be the finet whatever person ded. l, the amount of news that might be created of a extended-dead polymath is startling. I like Leonardo tales %u2013 usually %u2013 but one of the current crop really annoys me.

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Works by Van Gogh and Hockney mark London gallery’s 200th birthday

As birthday presents go, they are quite something: 12 of the most jaw-dropping paintings in any gallery anywhere, courtesy of institutions across Europe and the US including the Uffizi, Prado and Met.

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Auf wiedersehen Britart: Germany wins when it comes to art

Which country leads Europe in contemporary art? Britain, of course, you answer. Look at all those people flocking to Tate Modern. Wrong. The best artists in Europe today are German. The towering geniuses Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer radically contrast in how they conceive art yet both, from their divergent perspectives, one super-cool, the other romantic, achieve a profundity that makes most British art look trite.

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‘Jesuit priest’ forger has fooled US museums for more than 20 years

Museum curators are warning of a mysterious man posing as a Jesuit priest who is suspected of duping American institutions with brilliantly forged artworks over the past 20 years.

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Europeana opens up data on 20 million cultural items

Europe’s digital library Europeana has been described as the ‘jewel in the crown’ of the sprawling web estate of EU institutions.

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