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...anniversary. Dinner or a drink is always good; avoid suggesting lunch or coffee, since these usually fall into the “friend activities” category. Just use common sense, and go with anything that sounds like it will be low-key, but fun. Go to an art museum, take a walk around Cambridge, or trying hanging out in a bookstore. As long as it’s just the two of you and a problem set isn’t involved, it will seem like it’s a date...
Cornwell’s hallmarks are everywhere in this novella. For instance, Harvard is prominently featured. Characters meet at the Faculty Club—“a handsome Georgian Revival building with a grey slate roof”—and the Fogg Art Museum, where, in real life, Cornwell has helped bring paintings by the man she claims was Jack the Ripper. And of course, the token Harvard student answers a question with “unnecessary snottiness...
...been to Bangkok, chances are you've done the Jim Thompson House - the gallery and museum set up in the late silk baron's former home, and a mainstay of the tourist trail. So, next time you're in town, head instead to its lesser-known but arguably more[an error occurred while processing this directive] interesting rival: the M.R. Kukrit Pramoj Heritage Home, tel: (66-2) 286 8185,. The Kukrit residence - open only on weekends and national holidays - is one of the best-preserved examples of Thai vernacular architecture in Bangkok. Set amid lush greenery on South Sathorn Road...
...through the 1920s Picasso's work found its way fitfully into the U.S., through occasional, short-lived exhibitions or dim black-and-white reproductions. But when the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) opened in Manhattan in 1929, it allowed for the first time the permanent display of a few real Picassos in the city where nearly all of the most alert American artists were gathered. That is what happened to The Studio, which Picasso completed in 1928. It was first seen briefly in the U.S. five years later. But by 1935 it had found its way into MOMA's permanent...
...throughout the late 19th century, a particularly high concentration of great American painters - including Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler and Mary Cassatt - passed through the City of Light. From Oct. 24-Jan. 18, their labors will be on display in "Americans in Paris, 1860-1900" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The 100 oil paintings by 37 mostly Impressionist painters have already wowed crowds and critics in both London and Boston. The exhibit ranges from portraits to cityscapes to glimpses into the studio life. Cassatt's severe and pensive mother makes a showing in drab black...