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Generous death
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Nancy Pickard |
Someone murdered two of the local art museum's most wealthy donors, and hinted that Jenny Cain, head of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, would be next. |
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A love for the beautiful
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Susan Jaques |
"Some of the country's best art is hidden in plain sight, in museums largely unknown outside their regions. How works by masters like Rembrandt, Rodin, Ansel Adams, Picasso, van Gogh, Monet, Hokusai,… |
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Radical Museology
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Claire Bishop |
In the face of austerity cuts to public funding, a handful of museums of contemporary art have devised compelling alternatives to the mantra of 'bigger is better and richer'.
In Radical Museology,… |
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Murder in the abstract
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Susan C. Shea |
Danielle O'Rourke's gala evening at the Devor Museum ends in catastrophe when the body of a young artist plummets from her office window. The police label it murder and suspect Dani, the Museum's chi… |
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The lethal partner
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Jake Page |
Mo Bowdre gets involved when a Santa Fe art gallery owner is accused of murdering the gallery's manager and some newly-discoverd Georgia O'Keeffe paintings disappear. |
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Mr Bean
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Joanna Strange |
A famous painting is going to the Grierson Gallery in LA and they want a top man to come to the United States. He can talk about the artist. The National Gallery in London sent Mr Bean. But something… |
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Rubens's Massacre of the Innocents
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Art Gallery of Ontario. |
DVD focuses on the addition to the Art Gallery of Toronto designed by Frank Gehry to house the Thomson collection. Includes interviews with the collector, museum staff and the architect. |
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The Russian dreambook of color and flight
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Gina Ochsner |
Tanya carries a notebook wherever she goes, recording her observations and her dreams of finding love and escaping her job at the All-Russia All-Cosmopolitan Museum, a place which holds a fantastic a… |
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The Cincinnati Wing: The Story of Art in the Queen City (Ohio Bicentennial)
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Julie Aronson |
"The nine brief essays in this volume trace the thematic arrangement of the Cincinnati Wing galleries, situating the artwork in the context of Cincinnati's unique history as it progressed from a fron… |
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Wagstaff
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Philip Gefter |
A legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, Sam Wagstaff was a "figure who stood at the intersection of gay life and the art world and brought glamour and daring to both" (Andrew Solomon)… |
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The dream colony
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Walter Hopps |
"An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at the age of twenty-one. At twenty-four, he opened the Ferus Gallery with then-unknown artist… |
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How to visit an art museum
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Johan Idema |
The only way to understand art is to go to a museum and look at it, French painter Renoir suggests. But once inside, this is easier said than done. What do you do when the label simply reads "Untitle… |
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Art travel guide
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Connie Terwilliger |
This guide contains listings of over 120 contemporary art sites across the United States, with over 100 full-color photographs--art listings rarely found in other travel guides. If you are an art lov… |
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Ways of curating
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Hans Ulrich Obrist |
"The world's most influential contemporary-art curator explores the history and practice of his craft"-- |
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The case of the counterfeit painting
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Steven Brezenoff |
From the author of the best-selling Field Trip Mysteries series comes Museum Mysteries, a series featuring an exciting group of intrepid young friends. When Clementine Wim spots a famous painting bei… |
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Curating at the edge
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Kate Bonansinga |
Located less than a mile from Juarez, the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso is a non-collecting institution that serves the Paso del Norte region. … |
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Gu gong san bu qu
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Jianhua Zhang |
<Summary in Chinese field only> |
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The Capitoline Museums
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Musei capitolini (Rome, Italy) |
208 p. : 24 cm |
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Carl and the mysterious nibbler
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Lynn Estes Friess |
Carl the inquisitive chipmunk learns of a mystery at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, where he is a guide for animals. |
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Where are you, Ernest and Celestine?
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Gabrielle Vincent |
When Celestine momentarily loses Ernest at the museum, she fears that he prefers the paintings to her. |
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