Word: artisticness
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...successor last year, Justin H. Haan ’05, continued to plan large-scale social events such as last April’s Yardfest featuring pop-artist Ben Folds. Haan also oversaw the creation of the College Events Board, which received $200,000 from the College to plan campus-wide events...
...hidden some gems filled with cutting-edge art. These are innovative galleries devoted to contemporary art, featuring a new show almost every month: well worth a stop for anyone with an interest in changing trends in the art world.As if to symbolize Boston’s split artistic personality, Gallery NAGA (67 Newbury St) is located in the same building as a granite Victorian-era church. The work of Boston native Gerry Bergstein, who has exhibited here for the past 30 years, is currently on display. His paintings are intricate and dreamlike, capturing imaginary worlds simultaneously being constructed and destroyed...
...enable on-the-spot music identification. With Track ID, a technology powered by a company called Gracenote, the W850i and W950i phones can capture a song fragment wherever you hear it, and send it to Gracenote's Mobile Music ID (MMID) database for identification. In seconds the title and artist are sent to your phone display...
...spanish mission-style mansion in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Japan's consul-general is showing off his art collection. With glass of red wine in hand, Tsukasa Kawada points out a triptych of sketches depicting traditional Japanese musicians: Two are by celebrated Australian artist Ken Done, but the third and most colorful is his own work. "I bought this frame and there were three spaces, so I put my own drawing in," the genial Kawada explains. It's a thumb-sized symbol of cultural exchange, and one that is amplified when five Sydney Symphony musicians proceed to perform a sprightly...
Wynn and Adelson have done more to remake Las Vegas than anyone else, and yet no two businessmen could be less alike. Wynn is Vegas royalty, the artist who rejuvenated the Strip by going upmarket in tone with the Bellagio, which showcased Van Goghs and Cezannes and Degas's dancers instead of topless showgirls. He lost the place to raider Kirk Kerkorian, who took over Wynn's company, Mirage Resorts, and booted Wynn, who scored a $6.4 billion payout but still had a score to settle. Last year Wynn returned with the new Wynn Las Vegas: more hushed, more exclusive...