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(author unknown), NPR Topics: Visual Arts
19th-century Harvard students needed botanical models. They turned to a pair of glass artists who specialized in invertebrate zoology. The results, on display at the Corning Museum of Glass this summer, are so lifelike that they've inspired poets and novelists....
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Jun 25, 2007
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(author unknown), NPR Topics: Performing Arts
In 1861, Elizabeth Packard was forcibly removed from her home and committed to an insane asylum because she disagreed with her Calvinist husband's religious beliefs. Playwright Emily Mann tells her story in the Kennedy Center's presentation of Mrs. Packard....
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Jun 24, 2007
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, UN News Centre - Culture, Education
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Centre has signed a contract with an Italian construction company to re-erect the Aksum obelisk on its original location in Ethiopia beginning this July....
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Jun 22, 2007
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(author unknown), NPR Topics: Visual Arts
Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal, who left his country in 1992 but still has family there, wanted to bring into sharp focus what it's like to be constantly worried about personal safety. So he moved into a gallery in Chicago and invited computer users across the country to shoot paintballs at him...
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Jun 01, 2007
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(author unknown), NPR Topics: Visual Arts
Art theft has turned into a global industry that experts believe now fuels everything from terrorism to drug-running. At least one art sleuth puts art crime (including stolen antiquities and forgeries) behind only drug and arms-trafficking as the third-most-lucrative criminal activity in the world ($2 to $6 billion a year)....
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May 31, 2007
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(author unknown), NPR Topics: Visual Arts
Aerial photographer Michael Collier captures radiant landscape images of the Earth from a single-engine airplane, all the while steering the aircraft with his feet....
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May 28, 2007
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Mar 16, 2007
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Mar 16, 2007
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Mar 16, 2007
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