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...Leventritt lecture series this year, entitled “A Changing Picture: European Art Museums Today,” features the directors of several institutions, including the Louvre in Paris, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and the National Gallery in London...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Curator Lectures On Fate of Museums | 3/14/2003 | See Source »

...popular than ever. His sparkling creations in Boston; Baltimore, Md.; Osaka; and Chattanooga, Tenn., have revitalized stagnant waterfronts and are pulling in huge crowds. The Genoa Aquarium, created with architect Renzo Piano, is Italy's fourth most popular tourist attraction and is drawing more visitors each year than the Uffizi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age Of Aquariums | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...most enjoyable class during my two undergraduate years was Fine Arts A, a full-year studio course in drawing and painting that had been created by Arthur Pope. The lectures, which focused on a handful of paintings (most of which I was pleased to find hanging in the Uffizi when I visited Florence many years later), were a minor part of the course. The "labs" (as they were actually called--a sign of the prevailing attitude toward the studio and performance arts) were everything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Learning the Material That Won't Be Tested | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

...Mafia fugitives," says Burke. "He is not at all the old type of honorable Mafia, who have rules about hurting women and children, but more of the new type of Mafioso, who are really brutal." Brusca is also accused of masterminding the 1993 car bombs that damaged the Uffizi museum in Florence, two churches in Rome and an art gallery in Milan. He planned the bombings following the arrest of Salvatero Riina, the Mafia's Boss of bosses, and Pope John Paul II's public condemnation of La Cosa Nostra. -->