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...video and its setting make up just one of dozens of striking exhibits in perhaps the smartest display of Native American culture ever assembled: the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, which opens this week in New York City. The museum is housed in the Beaux Arts splendor of the 1907 Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, which has been elegantly restored and renovated by Ehrenkrantz & Eckstut Architects. Its permanent collection boasts the million-plus artifacts collected by George Gustav Heye, a turn-of-the-century New York City banker who bought out Indian communities much...
LYONS. The Musee des Beaux Arts is one of the best museums outside Paris -- all the more since the reopening of 16 restored rooms in the north wing of the Palais Saint-Pierre. Among the 150 paintings, 70 sculptures and 250 objets d'art on display are medieval French ivories, enamels and goldwork; 10th to 14th century Islamic ceramics, arms and copperware; and Italian Renaissance sculpture, including Andrea Della Robbia's Virgin and Child and Mino da Fiesole's bust, St. John the Baptist. Seven of the rooms are devoted to painting: 17th century French works by Stella, Le Brun...
CHICAGO. The grand Beaux-Arts building that houses the Art Institute of Chicago is 100 years old. To celebrate that centennial, the Institute on Nov. 1 unveils "Chicago's Dream, a World's Treasure," a show of some of the choicest works from the 260,000-piece permanent collection. The 350-piece exhibit includes a number of works that are rarely seen owing to their fragility and sensitivity to light. Among the highlights: Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte -- 1884, the masterpiece most closely identified with the institute; Rembrandt's Young Woman at an Open Half-Door; Degas...
Twenty minutes after the show was supposed to begin, little white panel trucks carrying the clothes are still threading their way through traffic. The defile gets started nearly an hour late. By that time, the covered courtyard of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts is jammed with the press and the fashion faithful -- a tribute to the stir that de la Renta and Balmain are causing. On hand are a healthy number of designers and well-known customers: Valentino, Claude Pompidou, some major Agnellis and Rothschilds and a generous sprinkling of American celebrities, among them Marisa Berenson, Paloma Picasso, Mica Ertegun...
...Beaux Arts Trio--Menahem Pressler,piano; Isidore Cohen, violin; Peter Wiley,violin/cello present Mozart's Trio in G Major,Beethoven's Trio in D Major, and Mendelssoh's Trioin C minor. Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m. $20, $19, $17,and $15 general; $8 for students and seniors. Call495-1700 for tickets...