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Considering his fondness for the over-sized and the overly colorful, prim and proper Philadelphia might seem like an unusual location for the first American retrospective of Dutch designer Marcel Wanders' work. But there he is at the historic Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has just launched "Marcel Wanders: Daydreams," putting together Wanders' own favorite pieces from his 20-year career to date...
...earlier stages of his career, Bogdanovich served as a film critic for “Esquire,” and also profiled and orchestrated tributes to some of Hollywood’s finest directors, including Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, as a worker in the Film Department of the Museum of Modern Art. Making his directorial debut in 1968 with “Targets,” Bogdanovich quickly established himself as one of the industry’s brightest new talents. A string of tremendously successful films in the early 1970s, including “The Last Picture Show...
...Coolidge Corner Theatre presents the “Science on Screen” series, in its fifth year, in association with The Museum of Science and New Scientist Magazine. “The aim of the series is to educate about science while entertaining through movies, presenting a feature film or feature-length documentary on a science/medical-related topic,” theatre’s associate director Elizabeth Taylor-Mead said in an email...
...papers and drawings was donated to the Yale University Library by the architect Kevin Roche, who had joined Saarinen's firm as a young man and saw to completion several important Saarinen projects that were unfinished at the time of his death. That archive laid the basis for a museum show that began traveling in 2006 and runs through Jan. 31 at the Museum of the City of New York before moving to Yale, its final stop, on Feb. 19. It tells you something about Saarinen's tricky place in the architectural canon that nearly half a century after...
...crashed in a ball of fire nearly 10 years ago, less than two miles (3 km) from where the mounted jet now stands. It was an event that doomed the world's fastest-ever passenger jet - an aircraft designed by French and British engineers - to a future as a museum relic...