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Calendar Event Listing: International Art Gallery Moves Onto Santa Monica's Ocean Avenue, Brings Smithsonian Artist, InStyle Celebrity Photographer and Daughter of Oscar Winner on August 30, September 6 and 27
World-renowned modern artist Stephen Courtney, whose work resides in the Smithsonian and celebrity homes, is exhibiting his fine art furniture and black & white photographs in the permanent exhibition "Affair in the Garden" at Santa Monica's brand-new James Coleman Gallery, located at 1431 Ocean Avenue. Courtney, whose love of cantilever...
Enter the realm of the crystal skull
Here's something to know about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: There really are such things as crystal skulls. Even the Smithsonian has one. You might hear a lot of hoo-ha, especially online, about the carved quartz objects, a dozen of which exist...
American Indian lacrosse; little brother of war
American Indian lacrosse; little brother of war. (reprint, 1994) Vennum, Thomas. Johns Hopkins U. Press 2008 360 pages $24.95 Paperback E98 This is a paperbound reprint of a book published in 1994 by Smithsonian Press, brought back into print by The Johns...
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NON-RESIDENTIAL LIGHTING DEMAND has caused a surge in shipments of lighting products, this year's first quarter being the best since 2000, according to the National Lighting Bureau, which tracked, among other products, lamps, luminaires, blasts, emergency lighting, and exit signs. Strong gains were reported in domestic shipments of nonresidential products-energy...
Oodles of doodles Barrington exhibit shows off sketches that lead to inventions.(News)
Byline: Andrew Schroedter Daily Herald Staff Writer A typical museum exhibit usually doesn't include doodles. Unless, of course, someone like Picasso drew the mishmash of scribbles and squiggly lines and circles. A new exhibit, "Doodles, Drafts and Designs: Industrial ...
IN MEMORIAM: ROXIE COLLIE LAYBOURNE, 1910-2003
Feather identification expert for 40 years, bird-skinning teacher, mentor, renaissance woman, natural historian, educator, and sports car enthusiast, Roxie Collie Laybourne died on 7 August 2003 at her home in Manassas, Virginia. Known as the "Feather Lady," Roxie pioneered the field of forensic ornithology at the Smithsonian Institution by studying...
Lakota artist at the Smithsonian
Indian Country Today Lakota Times 09-22-2004 CUSTER, S.D. - Lula Red Cloud, great-great granddaughter of Chief Red Cloud the revered Oglala warrior, had a desire to submit a star quilt to a show at the Smithsonian, and while some unforeseen circumstances got in the...
A Master of the Art of Living
Slipping away quietly in her sleep late last week may have been the only unspectacular thing Julia Child ever did in her 91 years. When, in 1961, in an act of generosity and scholarship, she published "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," she launched a major culture shift: cooking with...
Masters of Design: John Maeda
"John Maeda is a visionary," says Paul Warwick Thompson, director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. "He is fundamentally changing the way we think about design." More to the point, Maeda is fundamentally changing the way MIT's renowned Media Lab thinks about technology. For Maeda, who has devoted...
National Metalsmiths name two to Hall of Fame.(People)(Brief Article)
Two recipients recently received National Metalsmiths 2003 Hall of Fame awards--John Paul Miller in the Artist category and Heikki Seppa in the Arts Educator division. Miller is a master of precious metal granulation whose work is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery, Yale...


