Starbucks Bomb: Explosion at 92nd St. and 3rd Ave. in New York

A homemade bomb was the cause of an explosion at a Starbucks on 92nd St. and 3rd Ave. in New York, in the wee hours of Monday morning May 25, 2009.  Police have no word on the reason for the Starbucks bomb...

Louise Bourgeois retrospective in Guggenheim, New York

 The Guggenheim Museum in New York is currently hosting a major Louise Bourgeois retrospective till 2 September 08. Ms Bourgeois is one of the best-known living women artists today. An abstract sculptor The...

The World's Richest Royals

"Last year's movie sensation , The Queen, about Queen Elizabeth II, captured the monarch's lavish lifestyle with footage of her opulent castles and many servants. Not a bad life, but she comes in a mere 11th on...

Frank Gehry’s buildings seem to be from another planet

What’s the most difficult and stressful task that a human being can perform? Brain surgery on the President of the United States maybe, or reentering the Earth’s atmosphere in a malfunctioning Space Shuttle? Or perhaps it would it be the task of designing a...

New York International Children's Film Festival starts tonight!

This is the 10th Annual fest--I remember going to it when I was younger and really loving everything about it. New York's children are lucky creatures, that's for sure. Usually it sells out, but I think there are...

Artwork Visualizes Multiple Guggenheims On Planetary Scale

"5G 5G :: While the sixth Guggenheim Museum was under construction in Mexico, in 2006, I captured data on the five existing Guggenheims. The traces of this very real course provide an echo of a possible virtual...

Spanish master's Children stolen

"Spanish master's Children stolen Goya self-portrait (picture: Museo Nacional del Prado) Francisco de Goya is considered one of the world's greatest artists A painting by Spanish master Goya has been stolen while en route across the US, two museums have announced. The work...

What does it mean to be a Visionary Architect?

"The architect Zaha Hadid is often referred to as a visionary, but what exactly does that mean? Judging from the retrospective currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (through Oct. 25), the title...

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