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New Hopkins hospital takes an artful approach to health care
When Johns Hopkins Hospital officially opens its new, $1.1 billion building Tuesday, sick children will find a cobalt cow with legs the color of grass and a butter-colored head floating above their heads, poised to jump over a fanciful "moon." The new...Tags: Healthcare Provider, Radiology, Museums, Health Insurance, X-rays
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Report: Marilyn Monroe statue is moving on to California
If nothing else, Marilyn had legs. The crowds began posing beneath the 26-foot-tall Marilyn Monroe's billowing skirt from the moment that Seward Johnson's Forever Marilyn sculpture arrived in Pioneer Court in July, and they were doing so with just as...
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Not a five-and-dime operation
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — A French chef selling crepes from a food cart on an Arkansas city street may seem out of place, but business is very good for Crepes Paulette. It's about to get a lot better.
The wagon is parked at the head of a scenic path...Tags: Alice Walton, Tourism and Leisure, Travel, Dining and Drinking, Artists
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Northern Baltimore city calendar of events
Submit notices via email: messenger@patuxent.com; fax: 410-332-6336; or mail: Baltimore Messenger, 501 N. Calvert St., Third Floor, Baltimore, MD 21278. Include sponsor or host, date, time, address of event, contact name and phone number. Deadline is...Tags: Science, History (tv network), Religious Education, Parochial Schools, Continuing Education
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Yes, it's Marilyn: Wraps removed from towering statue
It is Marilyn Monroe.
If there was any question what the 26-foot-tall statue on Pioneer Court on Michigan Avenue was, all doubt was removed this morning when the final drapings came off and the blonde bombshell's face was there for all to gaze on.
For...Tags: New Jersey, Travel, Sculpture, Politics, Michigan
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WATCH: Chicago Reacts To Giant Marilyn Monroe Sculpture On Michigan Avenue
By now you've heard all about it. Artist Seward Johnson has constructed a 26 foot tall sculpture of Marilyn Monroe. The sex symbol towers over tourists on Michigan Avenue. Her head won't be unveiled until Friday, for now it's covered by a plastic bag.
Of...Tags: Human Interest, Sculpture, Michigan, Michigan Avenue, Facebook
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'Art Institute' — in stitches
The "Mona Lisa" is lying on the living room floor of a house in LaPorte, Ind.
It was removed from the wall so that Barbara and Earl Miller could find room for another, larger painting, Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks."
This "painting" and many others ...Tags: Human Interest, Health, Art Institute of Chicago, Edward Hopper, Diseases and Illnesses
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New York Acting Ensemble premieres ‘American Gothic’
Orlando Theater BlogThe Courtyard Theatre Foundation will premiere a new comedy, “American Gothic,” on Sunday, May 8, as part of the New York Acting Ensemble Workshop Showcase at the Zebra Room in Orlando. The one-act play, starring Ken Luzadder and Salem Murphy,... -
"Grant Wood: A Life" by R. Tripp Evans
Special to the Tribune Newspapers"Grant Wood: A Life" By R. Tripp Evans Knopf, $37.50, 432 pages Controversy attended Grant Wood's iconic and enigmatic painting "American Gothic" from its first public viewing, a juried exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930. The depiction...Tags: Iowa City, Literature, Biography (genre), Johnny Carson, Germany
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