Every dog has his day at Madame Tussauds
The folks behind Madame Tussauds New York Wax Museum are creative, to say the least.
In addition to Lassie, the first-ever animal to be immortalized in wax, is the new Bullseye, the recognizable logo dog for Target department stores. The bull terrier that has Target Corporation’s bullseye logo painted around its left eye was on [...]
Festival d’Automne: a festival of art in Paris, France
The 38th Festival d’Automne à Paris [Paris Autumn Festival] will take place from 15 September 2009 to 19 December 2009.
Want to find out about the latest innovations in the world of the arts? Catch a flight to Paris and do just that at the annual Festival d’Automne.
Already underway, the event runs until December 19th and [...]
The Russian Culture and the Arts
Culture > Libraries and Museums
Russia has over 50,000 state public Libraries [39,000 of these rural] in total possession of over a billion books, and the stock is steadily growing. Every general-educational school and the majority of offices and large factories have libraries of their own.
Close to 1,500 Museums cover practically all fields, knowledge, historical, ethnographic, memorial, [...]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art Museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.
Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City’s Central [...]
Art Historical sites: images from around the world
Art historical images of sculpture and architecture, from pre-historic to post-modern.
Check this link >
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/index/index.html
A weekend in Havana through the eyes of an American
Weekend in Havana: An American Photographer in the Forbidden City
Hardcover, 144 pages, published by Abbeville Press [2007], in English language.
Both Cuba and the United States have strict rules governing photographic activity in Cuba. The U.S. carefully delineates what kinds of photographic undertakings are forbidden, while Cuba has, in the past, imprisoned photographers for giving a “distorted image of [...]
It’s the magical worldwide toilet tour
Call it the ultimate in a worldwide toilet talk.
Flush full of facts on the smallest, but arguably the most important, room in the house, “Toilets of the World”, a gift book by potty-mouthed authors Morna E. Gregory and Sian James, provides perfect “office” reading. No word on whether inspiration for the tome struck while either writer [...]
A guide to the world’s poetic forms
OK, so you travel around the world for culture, the arts, the literature et all. For all those of you who love poetry and books, here’s our brief intoduction to the World’s Poetic Forms >
Sonnet > A 14-line poem that follows a set rhyme scheme and has a logical structure. Sonnets are archetypical of love [...]
The works of Robert Mapplethorpe on display
Robert Mapplethorpe is often associated with the sexually-charged images featured in his controversial exhibit, “The Perfect Moment” nearly 20 years ago.
The photographer, who died in 1989 at age 42, is best known for the frank eroticism of his middle period, which sparked debate about the public funding of art. But much of Mapplethorpe’s photography was [...]
Take a theater vacation in London, UK > part 2
Things To Know Before You Take a Theater Vacation in London
Technology may be revolutionizing the way we consume entertainment and art, but it hasn’t touched the theater. These days, you can have books and DVDs sent to your home, you can watch TV shows on your MP3 player and play video games on the [...]
