Word: artists
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...Ultimate Miami Nights package at the Mandarin Oriental Miami includes two nights in a presidential suite; champagne upon arrival, in your limo and at breakfast; a private shopping tour of Miami's hippest boutiques to pick out the evening's killer outfit; a session with a top makeup artist; a photo shoot to record you in your finery; the services and presence of a "VIP Nightlife Guide"; a 14-seat Hummer stretch limousine; and VIP admission to and preferred seating at clubs like S.E.T., Mokai and Aerobar...
...artist and designer has there been any point in your career that you've wanted to try something new? -Frederick Watson in Watertown, New York I am doing what I want to do. I am not only drawing, but constantly wondering what would please fans most and whether I can do something new. When I did the 'Kabuki' series, I saw a lot of Kabuki plays. I had a dresser to show me the costumes and they are so heavy that I nearly tripped. I don't draw from an imagination, so I have to study...
...artist and a critic, he was the enemy of the ornate. Manny Farber, who died at 91 near San Diego, championed the beauty of small things in his collage work and the cramped brilliance of little men in tight spots in the B movies he loved--films that, through his writing, he helped raise from forgotten to fashionable. Son of a store owner in the mining town of Douglas, Ariz., he played football at Berkeley, then went East and upended movie criticism. Writing for the New Republic, the Nation, Time, Cavalier and a host of art and film journals, Farber...
...compelling. Back in Moscow, where she is preparing to travel to Edinburgh for the Dorian Gray premiere, Kolosova describes the reaction of the 91-year-old former Bolshoi ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya to Bourne's Swan Lake. Too frail to make it backstage from her box, the legendary People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. asked for a message to be sent to Bourne. "She wanted to tell him that this was the future," Kolosova recalls. "That this was the way forward...
...discovered Torres Strait Islander artist and dancer Alick Tipoti. Through his award-winning black-and-white linocut prints, Tipoti has translated designs traditionally carved on dance apparatus and drums to museum walls in Washington and Dusseldorf. The three festivals he's attended have introduced him to a wider network of artistic influence. "We are the most western part of the Pacific, which is tied together through traditional designs," says the Thursday Island-born artist, who has traced Torres Strait motifs back to the New Zealand Maori via "the Solomon Islands, Palau and across to Hawaii...