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Harvard Medieval Art History Professor Jeffrey F. Hamburger embarked on a crusade last week to save a rare professorship at King’s College London from being eliminated due to budget cuts...
While the team is ranked fifth in the country in two-point field goal percentage and eighth at the free throw line, it suffers from the lack of a second legitimate scorer when Lin is double-teamed, or on the rare occasions when the star guard receives a breather on the sideline or is in foul trouble...
Most of Wanders' best-known pieces are on display in Philadelphia, along with an array of never-released prototypes and rare editions. More are featured in a series of accompanying videos and short films purpose-made for "Daydreams." Many of the clips feature Wanders shown in an almost hologram-like manner, explaining his inspirations just steps away from the resulting products...
Each of the 15 guestrooms channel Fendi's creativity and style. She used furnishings she discovered at antique fairs around the world to turn them into mini-museums, incorporating items like a 1930s Mies van der Rohe sofa bed, a rare Picasso foulard and green steel furniture by Italian designer Tobia Scarpa. The glamorous Crystal Room seems weightless with its transparent Fendi Perspex furniture. The black-and-white Karl Suite, decorated with 1920s Viennese armchairs, honors designer Karl Lagerfeld (Fendi's creative director) and displays dozens of his fashion sketches. (See the best travel gadgets...
Borrowing established stories and adapting them for the stage is hardly unusual in today’s theater culture, where original writing is hard to find. It is rare, then, when a production based on another work manages to feel exciting. Perhaps even more remarkable is that the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) and Elevator Repair Service (ERS) achieve this freshness with one of the most well known American novels: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby...