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foreign, fun, holiday, j artist, jacob, lawrence, pris exilewarriors
1:59 am
Arguably the foremost African-American artist, Jacob Lawrence died this year leaving behind an extraordinary body of work, including an innovative series of portraits of great black heroes. This month visitors can see all 41 of Lawrence’s narrative paintings about Haitian leader Toussaint L’Ouverture at the Norton Museum of Art. An enigmatic figure, L’Ouverture is shown in all his facets – outraged slave, revolutionary hero, merciless soldier, unbending dictator and chained prisoner.
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atu, fun, padgett, powell, sinc exilewarriors
2:00 am
One of the most unique voices in American literature today, Padgett Powell first achieved notoriety with ‘Edisto’, a coming-of-age tale that was nominated for the National Book Award. Since then, he has published five other books, all of them praised by critics for their playful style and satirical take on the South. Today, native- Floridian Powell comes to Miami to read from his latest novel, ‘Mrs Hollingsworth’s Men’.
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10 year, amsterdam, ed geth, flights, fun, pan exilewarriors
2:01 am
110 art and antiques dealers from around the world come together for pAn Amsterdam, one of the largest antique fairs in the country. While every era and part of the globe will be represented, this year’s focus exhibition is called ‘Treasury of the Past’ and is made up of prize pieces from the National Museum of Antiquities. Art ‘detectives’ from the Art Loss Register will be also on hand to authenticate pieces.
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(usa), California, fun, los angeles exilewarriors
12:00 am
Sunlight and fun is what California in USA is all about. And talking about gates, was famous for its inventive strategies in construction when it built the Golden Gate Bridge. And that was Walt Disney’s choice when he made a decision to build the most happy place, making Disneyland. LA Generates with Excitement Los Angeles, LA or as some call it ‘ The Town of Angels’ is saturated with all sorts of entertainment. What firstly calls the visitors attention is anything that has to do with Hollywood and its stars.
The 1st stop is mostly Hollywood Boulevard to the Walk of celebrity where you can see whose hand and footprints have a likeness to yours while visiting the Kodak Theatre, known for the Oscar parties. And if your are fortunate, you may share a fitting room with somebody famous as you go and do some shopping on Rodeo Drive in the Beverly Hills area, at Santa Monica Square or on Hollywood Drive. I went there thinking that I’d be trailing around after my youngsters while they lived the dream about their lives, but I’m able to guarantee you that I was more excited and enthused than my children.
I relived adolescence journeys that I believed had long passed with my friends Mickey and Minnie and shared other ones with my folks.
I’ve been told that Disney world is better, but only seeing is believing. But San Francisco woud not be thorough without a trip to the Island of Alcatraz and its piercing prison and museum stuffed with shivering history. Everything about California makes you tingle!
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Joy
Friday, Jan 1 2010
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flights, fun, joy exilewarriors
4:51 am
Sure it’s cold outside but temperatures are set to soar when the lovely Queen Maxine makes her dramatic return to Alan and Maggie’s long-running hard house night.
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baskets, foreign, fun, holiday, woven exilewarriors
4:49 am
Brightly coloured and intricately patterned telephone wire baskets are fast gaining international recognition as a new and vibrant art form. The tradition of weaving coiled baskets, from strips of coloured telephone wire, originated in the urban areas of Kwazulu Natal and many of the bowls with their distinctive geometric patterns have become colectors items. This superb exhibition is a collaberation between well known French artist Herve Di Rosa and members of the Syanda Wire Weavers Collective who worked together to create some interesting adaptations to traditional basket weaving.
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U-571
Wednesday, Dec 16 2009
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foreign, fun, u-571 exilewarriors
2:02 am
Rip-roaring, if historically inaccurate, old-fashioned WWII movie in which the US Navy steal a German encryption device from a U-boat scuttled in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
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flights, fun, guston, philip exilewarriors
8:59 am
This thoughtful survey of Guston’s work well represents the Canadian-born painter’s two contrasting mature styles – his Abstract Expressionist phase in the 1940s and 1950s and his brave, then misunderstood, break with abstraction at the end of the 1960s. His move from New York to Woodstock saw a radical change in the return to a figurative style. The deliberately crude, comic-strip-influenced style becomes a form of understated shorthand, whether for political fears seen in Ku Klux Klan heads or for his daily life in canvases filled with dismembered hands, smoking cigarettes and outsize boots.
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