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...Ram?rez, que naci? hace 50 a?os en Puerto Rico, fue nombrada la primera directora del Centro Internacional del Arte de las Am?ricas, ubicado en el Museo de Bellas Artes, Houston, TX. El centro se dedica no s?lo ha coleccionar y exhibir las obras de la vanguardia latinoamericana sino tambi?n a apoyar la investigaci?n y ense?anza para aclarar que tal arte va m?s all? del surrealismo folkl?rico de Frida Kahlo o los campesinos de Diego Rivera...
...years Botero was regarded as "an innovator." Now, La Placa believes his current work is "a pale imitation of what he did many years ago." Yet in Latin America, Botero's appeal puts him "in a category all of his own," says Julián Zugazagoitia, director of El Museo del Barrio, a Latin American art museum in New York City. Criss-crossing the world between his five homes, Botero ships all his work to Zurich to be stored until it is exhibited or sold. He has no assistant, preferring to catalog the work himself on his Palm Pilot...
After fueling up, visit the Palazzo Madama, a royal residence that houses the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica. The regional collection of tapestries, paintings and ceramics can be skipped for a quick - and free - viewing of renowned architect Filippo Juvarra's staircase, the Scala delle Forbici, on the western side of the building. Across the Piazza Castello is the Palazzo Reale, which was damaged by fire in 1997. But much of the restoration is complete and can be enjoyed from outside in the open gardens or inside in the majestic corridors...
After a few seconds, it becomes clear that San Marco will not, after all, burn down. The fire is a reflection from a Plessi video installation “WaterFire” on the windows in the Museo Correr. For approximately three minutes, the windows are engulfed in images of flames, and then the flames subside into soothing violet images of the sea. The square becomes peaceful again as the blue hues dance off the gold mosaics of the Basilica, only to be illuminated by the orange flames three minutes later...
...long at birth--"about the size of a small poodle," says Chiappe--but 40 ft. to 50 ft. from the tips of their giraffe-like necks to the ends of their long, ground-hugging tails in adulthood. The third team leader, paleontologist Rodolfo Coria of Argentina's Museo Municipal Carmen Funes, identifies them more specifically as titanosaurs, smaller versions of sauropods that were common in the area...