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The Scoop: New York City iPhone App
Get a selection of the listings on your iPhone with The Scoop, The Times’s guide to what to eat, see and do in New York.
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Adam Yauch, 1964-2012: Adam Yauch, a Founder of the Beastie Boys, Dies at 47
Mr. Yauch, whose nom de rap was MCA, helped make the first hip-hop album to top the Billboard chart, and later became involved in championing freedom in Tibet.
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Solo exhibition by William Wegman of recent postcard paintings at Sperone Westwater
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater presents Artists Including Me, a solo exhibition by William Wegman of recent postcard paintings that feature imagery from secondhand souvenirs, imaginary landscapes, and art about art. This is the artists fifth solo show at the gallery. Mounting found postcards from his vast personal collection onto wooden panels, Wegman enhances and embellishes a detail from one card and seamlessly connects it to the next with rich painterly strokes.
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London's Frieze art fair debuts New York edition taking place in Randall’s Island Park
NEW YORK, NY.- The first edition of Frieze New York taking place in Randalls Island Park, Manhattan from 47 May 2012. Designed by New York-based SO IL Architects, Frieze New York is housed in a bespoke structure and located in a unique setting overlooking the East River. Frieze New York features 180 of the most exciting contemporary galleries working today. A strong American and European contingent of galleries is joined by those from the rest of the world.
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Mexican experts find blood, muscle, tendon, skin and hair on ancient stone knives
MEXICO CITY (AP).- Traces of blood and fragments of muscle, tendon, skin and hair found on 2,000-year-old stone knives have given researchers the first conclusive evidence that the obsidian blades were used for human sacrifice so long ago in Mexico. Researchers had long seen cut marks on ancient bones that appeared to suggest varied practices of dismembering victims in many pre-Hispanic cultures, but the find announced Wednesday positively identifies the sort of actual knives that were used in the ancient rituals.
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T Magazine: Now Online | T Design and Living
For the Design and Living issue of T, it's all about style and personal space.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery's 'Little Prince' discovery offers new political insight
PARIS (AP).- Newly-discovered draft pages of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince" that may shed new, political insight on the classic book have been put on display at a Paris auction house for the first time. Following their surprise discovery in private hands two months ago in France, the handwritten pages about the young, curious prince who embarks on interplanetary adventures, will be auctioned off later this month after a rare public viewing. "It's incredible.
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Exhibition of recent work by Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming opens at David Zwirner
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of recent work by Yan Pei-Ming, on view at the gallerys 519 West 19th Street space. Born in Shanghai in 1960 and based in Dijon, France, Ming has gained international recognition for his large-sized, monochromatic portraits. His subjects, which range from historical figures, political leaders, and celebrities to anonymous soldiers, serial killers, female prisoners, orphans, and the artist himself, are typically presented face-on, with bold and expressive brushwork.
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Researchers from British Museum in London say they have new clue to Lost Colony
CHAPEL HILL, NC (AP).- A new look at a 425-year-old map has yielded a tantalizing clue about the fate of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from North Carolina's Roanoke Island in the late 16th century. Experts from the First Colony Foundation and the British Museum in London discussed their findings Thursday at a scholarly meeting on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their focus: the "Virginea Pars" map of Virginia and North Carolina created by explorer John White in the 1580s and owned by the British Museum since 1866.
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First major presentation of Loris Gréaud's work opens at The Pace Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents Loris Gréaud: The Unplayed Notes, on view at 534 West 25th Street from May 5 through June 9, 2012. This exhibition marks the first major gallery presentation of Gréauds work to date and his first exhibition in New York in nearly six years. The Unplayed Notes will feature a series of site-specific, multisensory installations that activate new ways of experiencing Gréauds on-going investigation of altered realities. The exhibition will also include the U.S.
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Amateur sleuth helps stop National Archives and Records Administration thefts
WASHINGTON (AP).- When J. David Goldin saw the recorded interview of baseball great Babe Ruth for sale on eBay he knew something was wrong. There was only one original record of that 1937 interview of Ruth on a hunting trip, and Goldin had donated it to a government archive more than 30 years ago. Now someone was auctioning it off, the winning bid just $34.75. "I took one look at the record label and I said, 'holy smokes, that's my record,'" said the retired radio engineer.
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British Council announces digitisation of over 120 unique films from its own archive
LONDON.- Over 120 films providing fascinating snapshots of the UKs cultural, sporting, industrial and political heritage have been launched online to the public today thanks to funding from Google and the British Council. The films are from the British Councils own film archive which dates back to late 1939 and give an insight not only into a bygone age, but also serve to capture how cultural relations has changed.
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Connecticut teen points out inaccurate map to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEST HARTFORD (AP).- A Connecticut seventh-grader says workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City didn't believe him when he pointed out an inaccuracy with a map that was on exhibit. The map purported to show the Byzantine Empire at its largest size in the 6th century, but he noticed that Spain and part of Africa were missing from the depiction. Benjamin Lerman Coady knew he was right, because he had just studied the empire in school before last summer's trip to the museum with his mother. He was told to fill out a form.
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30 years after its conception, garden designed by Sol LeWitt is now under way in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On May 24, 2012, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will commemorate the installation of Sol LeWitts Lines in Four Directions in Flowers, a garden consisting of rows of flowers in four different colors planted on a long rectangular plot of land in the William M. Reilly Memorial at Fairmount Park, adjacent to the Museums Anne dHarnoncourt Sculpture Garden.
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New installation by Tara Donovan at the Milwaukee Art Museum highlights the extraordinary
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum opens the latest installation in its Currents series with the sculptural works of contemporary artist Tara Donovan. The exhibition runs through October 7, 2012. Recognized for her commitment to process, Donovan utilizes the inherent physical characteristics of common and manufactured materialsstraws, pins, Styrofoam cupsand the multiplication and interaction of the individual units, to create organic installations with powerful perceptual and atmospheric effects.
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First US exhibition by the acclaimed Australian artist Michael Snape at Waterhouse & Dodd
NEW YORK, NY.- Waterhouse & Dodd New York is presenting the first US exhibition by the acclaimed Australian artist Michael Snape. Taken from detailed drawings of the human figure in seemingly infinite amalgamations, Snape creates laser-cut sculptures from steel and brass. The artist balances negative space with multiple figure compositions that address the artist's concern for shaping a raw material to its exhaustive capacity.
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UK sentences art forger to 2 years in jail
LONDON (AP).- British police say a man has been sentenced to two years in jail for forging up to 1,000 paintings. Scotland Yard says 63-year-old William Mumford imitated artists such as Maqbool Fida Husain, Kyffin Williams and John Tunnard. It says a number of co-conspirators had placed the works for sale on eBay and at British auction houses in exchange for a 20 percent cut. Police said the scam was identified in 2009 after a major auction house saw that an unusually large number of Husain paintings were offered for sale.
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Museum makes a million: Museum of Liverpool welcomes one million visitors
LIVERPOOL.- The Museum of Liverpool has welcomed one million visitors through its doors since opening in July 2011, just nine months ago. The largest newly built national museum in Britain for more than a century was forecast to attract 750,000 people in its first year, but in nine months it has already well exceeded that target. David Fleming, Director of National Museums Liverpool said: The response has been tremendous, not only from Merseysiders but from visitors to the city from all over the globe.
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Anita Lobel: Caldecott Honor Medalist's illustrations on view at Joslyn Art Museum
OMAHA, NE.- All the Worlds a Stage at Joslyn Art Museum comprises more than 70 colorful, richly patterned artworks pen and ink, watercolor, and gouache (pronounced GOO-ahsh; a technique of painting with opaque watercolors prepared with gum) pictures from 31 childrens books by author-illustrator Anita Lobel.
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