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...INFOTAINMENT Can't afford Van Gogh's Sunflowers? At New York City's Mandarin Oriental you can look at it on a big in-room plasma screen instead. Fed up with art? Then check out a sweeping 97 channels of TV. If you're at the Auckland Hilton, you can read the local paper?yours, that is?using a PC in the lobby, which prints the current editions of more than 120 international dailies for $5 apiece...
...internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder that broadband Internet access by the pool is so yesterday, hotels are constantly introducing new gadgets and gizmos. Here's a peek at what could soon become standard: INFOTAINMENT Can't afford Van Gogh's Sunflowers? At New York City 's Mandarin Oriental you can look at it on a big in-room plasma screen instead. Fed up with art? Then check out a sweeping 97 channels of TV. If you're at the Auckland Hilton, you can read the local paper - yours, that...
...there, and during his tumultuous few months of living and working with Vincent van Gogh in Arles, that he developed the elements of his mature style--firmly modeled foreground figures against flat ranges of background color. The pigments are abruptly juxtaposed in the Impressionist manner. Landscape in Gauguin is likely to be a furious collision of hot pink against blue and chrome yellow against vermilion. But he would put behind him the short fluttering brushstrokes that the Impressionists had made their sign of the fleeting moment. Gauguin distilled and abstracted, producing an emotional impression, not an optical one, in which...
This new generation of art novels is different from Lust for Life (about Van Gogh) and The Agony and the Ecstasy (Michelangelo). Irving Stone's old blockbusters were the testosterone-laden version of art history. The central voice now is more likely to be a woman's. In Sarah Dunant's agile new novel, The Birth of Venus (Random House; 394 pages), the fictional narrator is Alessandra Cecchi, 14, the daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant in the Florence of Michelangelo and Botticelli. Alessandra yearns to live with a brush in her hand. For that matter, she would be happy...
Squeezing into murkily lit booths at the Middle East bar, which an employee had donated to the cause, the group could be posing for an overcrowded Van Gogh canvas. Baird fusses with poster boards containing his hand-written agenda before taking the microphone...