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With its collection of over 50,000 dazzling artifacts created in pre-Hispanic times, Bogotá's Gold Museum is one of a kind. Now, thanks to a recent government crack-down on crime and corruption, tourists are trickling back to Colombia's capital to gawp at the treasures firsthand...
...abandoned palazzo (better known as Palazzo Pauly, since it was the headquarters of the Pauly Glassworks for more than a century), it was a revelation. Morawetz acquired the property and, rather than selling the valuable artistic-glass collection that came with it, decided to give Venice a new Museum of 20th Century Glass as part of the project. Venice's mayor, philosopher Massimo Cacciari, well aware that the project was far beyond the city council's budget, facilitated bureaucratic permits...
...more than 260, by invitation only--are entitled to stay in any of the apartments whenever they like and have access to a private jet from any European location and use of the club's launch, as well as its yacht, docked at the Port of Venice. The glass museum will be open to the public during the day, and club members can invite guests in after hours for an aperitif. Membership in the club, which will open in June 2008, begins at $476,000, plus annual dues of about $19,000 for operating costs...
...assistant to Atget's Montparnasse neighbor Man Ray, the photographer and Surrealist. Abbott went on to become an eminent photographer herself, capturing the old neighborhoods of New York City, Atget-style, as they fell to the skyscraper. After Atget's death, she arranged for New York City's Museum of Modern Art to buy many of his prints. Atget soon became better known in the U.S. than in the land of his birth, an imbalance the Bibliothèque Nationale show may finally correct...
...your awareness. His famous canvases are constantly being reproduced. But when you come up against the real things, you discover that his work is even stranger and more haunted--more impregnable--than you remembered. That's the lesson of the mesmerizing Hopper show that has opened at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where it remains until Aug. 19 before traveling to Washington and Chicago. That's also the Hopper paradox. He's the easy-to-read artist who's always just beyond our grasp...