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Composer Arky Levin is at a creative dead end when, entirely by chance, he stumbles across an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. Based on a real piece of performance art that took place in 2010, the unusual instillation moves almost all who participate in it. Arky finds himself drawn to the exhibit, returning day after day - and as he does, he begins to understand what might be missing in his life and what he must do.
11) The Cubist epoch
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[1971]
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Based on an exhibition of 321 paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1970 and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971.
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1997.
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The nucleus of the present-day Library of Congress was formed in 1815, when the nation purchased Thomas Jefferson's personal library of about six thousand volumes, which had been organized around the concepts of "Memory" (history), "Reason" (philosophy, law, and science), and "Imagination" (the arts). Today, the Library's vast holdings - nearly 110 million items in formats ranging rom manuscripts to motion pictures and sound recordings - offer an...
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1990.
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This book and the exhibition launches with it represent a powerful exploration in both image and text of the impact of the AIDS crisis. Different voices reveal the profound inadequacies in our attitudes to disease. The contributors disrupt the politically laden mythology of HIV and AIDS, and affirm the persistence of love and desire in the face of death. More than an interruption to personal life, AIDS has stimulated an eruption in creative life....
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[2013]
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Smithsonian Civil War is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book featuring 150 entries in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. From among tens of thousands of Civil War objects in the Smithsonian's collections, curators handpicked 550 items and wrote a unique narrative that begins before the war through the Reconstruction period. The perfect gift book for fathers and history lovers, Smithsonian Civil War combines one-of-a-kind, famous,...
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