New York
Hundreds of talented musicians perform on the streets of New York City. But Colin Huggins stands out. The classically-trained pianist pushes his 700 pound baby grand almost a mile through the streets of Manhattan to reach...
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Reuters
A 58-foot male sperm whale skeleton is one of the many highlights of a new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.It was found by a local tribe on New Zealand's shore before they gifted their discover to the Museum of New Zealand Te...
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Egmont Labadie
Paris-based fun and creative cooking festival Omnivore will be replicated in ten major cities across the world in 2013, announced founder Luc Dubanchet during the French edition that took place from March 17 to March 19. “We have international...
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Reuters
Madame Tussauds celebrates Hindi films and culture, kicking off a new traveling exhibit in New York's Times Square. Ten dancers from the AATMA Performing Arts helped launch the exhibit featuring five of Bollywood's biggest stars.
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Kelly Chan
A hundred years have passed since the first train departed from New York’s Grand Central Terminal. While the city around it has certainly changed, the station’s impeccable integration of locomotive, subway, automobile, and pedestrian traffic...
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Julia Halperin
NEW YORK — Up and down the streets of Chelsea, imposing gallery doors that are traditionally closed have been propped open. Dealers and art handlers are running in and out of galleries, piling the sidewalks high with debris and packing up artwork in crates....
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Julia Halperin
NEW YORK — As the storm tides begin to recede, art dealers are among the many business owners left assessing the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. From the Lower East Side to upstate New York, dozens of art institutions that we talked to — including R 20th...
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Kelly Chan
During its summer seasons, the 172-acre New York Harbor isle known as Governors Island welcomes weekending New Yorkers by the ferry-load. The city’s denizens arrive clutching bicycle helmets and picnic blankets, ready to bask in the car-free utopia of an...
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Rachel Corbett
NEW YORK — Friday’s rainy gray skies added to the old-world mood at the International Fine Art & Antiques Dealers fair, October 19-25. It’s always had a heavy British feel — silver tea caddies, equestrian paintings, big mahogany desks, Thomas Chippendale...
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Benjamin Genocchio, Art+Auction
If you’d like a brick-and-mortar demonstration of how profitable private treaty sales have become to Sotheby’s and Christie’s, take an elevator to the 20th floor of 1230 Avenue of the Americas, Christie’s private sales offices and showrooms.White walls,...














