Word: metropolitane
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...Walthamstow, in east London. In his "first grand car painting," the car lurks behind a billboard next to a busy road, light falling on the concrete pillars that frame this slice of no-man's-land. Campbell, 27, started painting night and the city while a student at Leeds Metropolitan University. "Day pictures don't have the same emotion," he says. When painter Duncan Swann came into the art supply shop in central London where Campbell works the two found points of resemblance - Swann's night vision takes in deserted sports fields. The resulting friendship led to a joint exhibition...
...Washington's National Gallery of Art, helped transform America's museums from dusty vaults to extravagant showplaces for the masses; of multiple myeloma; in Boston. During his 23-year tenure, Brown boosted federal funding for the gallery and repositioned it as a rival of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. He pioneered the phenomenon of the blockbuster exhibition with such shows as King Tut and Andrew Wyeth's "Helga" series...
Despite growing minority populations in the Boston metropolitan area and in the city itself, the greater Boston area is becoming even more segregated, according to a report released last week by the Harvard Civil Rights Project...
...have already destroyed thousands of trees. If they get loose in the rest of the country, damage could exceed $650 billion. "It's the greatest threat to U.S. forestry since the gypsy moth," says entomologist E. Richard Hoebeke of Cornell University. "I'm convinced that it's in other metropolitan areas. It's not a question of if, but when, we find them...
...responsibility for. I also feel that my parents' legacy can stand on its own, without my help. But it's something I believe in and am happy to help participate in." Last year she helped organize "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years," an exhibition at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art that celebrated her mother's renowned fashion style. The exhibit was a resounding success and will travel to Paris' Museum of Fashion and Textile in November. Kennedy also edited The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, which became an instant best seller...