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...subject was personal for Yenawine, who worked as director of education at the Museum of Modern Art from 1983 to 1993—during the height of the AIDS epidemic...

Author: By BETH E. BRAITERMAN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AIDS Epidemic Given Visual Form | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...Thompson says. The effort to collect pieces for a possible long-term D/R retrospective exhibit snowballed. Thompson and company scoured Cambridge-area antique stores and their own homes for old cookware, vases, or furnishings originally sold by D/R almost 50 years ago. Marimekko donated some of its modern merchandise to the exhibit, and a photographer took portraits of people wearing original D/R clothing to hang alongside the furnishings. One former D/R employee even donated her Marimekko wedding gown and bridesmaid dress...

Author: By Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Exhibit Celebrates Retro Designs | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

Though the piece is pretty funny and probably successful in exploring the overlap of simulation and reality in a modern world, it's reminiscent of last year’s University of Chicago Application essay question about the “Powers of 10." And FlyBy already suffered through that...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Some 'Poon-Provided Procrastination | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...nouveau swags on the façade of Art Hotel Boston, which despite its name is not in Massachusetts but in Turin, give no hint of the modern-art bonanza within. Guests check in beneath a poetic fusion of paint, cement and metal by Torinese artist Marco Gastini. A triptych by Roy Lichtenstein and a watercolor by Lucio Fontana hang in the bar. But it's the plethora of paintings, photographs and sculptures by lesser-known Italian talents - Luigi Ontani, Carla Accardi, Nicola Bolla - that suggest this is a private passion made public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Modern Art of Hospitality in Turin | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...among rolling hills and olive groves once painted by Van Gogh, Domaine de Lauzières appears to be your quintessential Provençal vineyard - until you step into a peculiar cellar. There are no barrels to be seen, nor any of the stainless-steel tanks favored by some modern vintners. Instead, winemaker Jean-Daniel Schlaepfer ferments his high-end wines there in egg-shaped vessels based on amphorae - the clay jars used by the Romans centuries ago. Schlaepfer is part of a growing group of producers around France and beyond returning to the wisdom of the ancients in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Wine In Old Vessels | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

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