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Pay a visit to Washington DC's Smithsonian American Art Museum, and you can gaze at the bright splendour of Cape Cod Morning, a watercolour of light and hope crafted in 1950 by the iconic New York painter Edward Hopper.
In some ways, this happy vision - where a woman peers through her window at the arrival of a New England day - is a neat encapsulation of the USA as a whole: prone to optimism, ever looking for the next dawn.
....org; $12/Pounds 7.50) pins itself to another fine cache of American art, including Edward Hopper's s...Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (001 617 267 9300; mfa.org; $25/ Pounds 15) has a ...org; $11/Pounds 7) in San Francisco delivers a glut of American art from the 17th cent...
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Everyone can name the world's truly great cities - the places that everyone should visit at least once. It is a familiar roll call - London, New York, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, Rio.
But it is no giant leap to say that, increasingly, Melbourne belongs on that list.
... in the CBD, to Livebait, which serves up fine fish in the Docklands district. Keen to hear the r... Art (ACCA) Envelope-pushing visual arts in a daringly modern structure of brown weathered ... city, with theatres, art galleries and museums that rival any in the world. However, the city is ...
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TRIPS to Merseyside's wealth of museums and galleries are a great way to keep children entertained -and it doesn't matter if the weather's bad.
Better still, the venues have a programme of summer events aimed at kids of all ages.
... African arts and crafts workshop, Aug 11, 25, 14pm: Try your ha... from local history and ship models to fine decorative arts. Botanic Gardens Museum, Botanic R... in the current exhibition by San Francisco-based artist Bernie Lubell, whose intriguing contr...
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A TYNESIDE artist has drowned in a freak swimming accident in the Philippines.
Renowned painter Richard Kidd was swept away by swelling waters as he swam beneath Bataan's Dunsulan Falls, west of the country's capital city Manila.
...Newcastle University Fine Art graduate Miss Lamble has told local papers in ... at the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) museums in San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, and Zurich. He s... teaching assistant in Newcastle University's arts and culture department. Mike Brick, a fine art lec...
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THE audience at the Teatro Signorelli in Cortona, Tuscany, is growing restless. The start of the performance - featuring Australian-born American soprano Danielle de Niese - has been delayed, a situation which, it transpires, is due to the non- appearance of one Robert Redford.
More than 20 minutes go by before the sandy haired Hollywood star, one of the big attractions at the Tuscan Sun Festival, takes his seat and the concert can begin.
... good form, and on other evenings there are fine performances from, among others, Redford himself, ... the post of music director of the San Francisco Opera. Cortona, less than an hour's drive southeas..., you don't even have to go into the museums to appreciate the city's stupendous art. The churc... www.tuscansunfestival.com, Travel for the Arts arranges tailor-made festival holidays. They are q...
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From his humble North-East beginnings, artist John George Brown became one of the most commercially successful artists in America. Mark Patterson looks at his life
INSIDE the grand art gallery built by American circus king John Ringling, cool despite the dazzling sunshine of Sarasota, Florida, the words 'born in Durham' next to the painting stand out like the proverbial sore thumb.
... Museum of Art, New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisc...Tyne & Wear Museums holds nothing by Brown; nothing of Brown's work is...
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THE audience at the Teatro Signorelli in Cortona, Tuscany, is growing restless. The start of the performance - featuring Australian-born American soprano Danielle de Niese - has been delayed, a situation which, it transpires, is due to the non- appearance of one Robert Redford.
The Hollywood star, one of the big attractions at the Tuscan Sun Festival, is enhancing his welldocumented reputation for tardiness. More than 20 minutes go by before the familiar sandy-haired figure takes his seat and the concert can begin.
... good form, and on other evenings there are fine performances from, among others, Redford himself, ... the post of music director of the San Francisco Opera. Dressed casually in jeans, the veteran acto... you don't even have to go into the museums to appreciate the city's stupendous art. The churc...Travel for the Arts (020 8799 8350, www.travelforthearts.com) can arra...