Suzanne Baumgarten contemplates difference (and in the end perhaps similarities) between acknowledged artistic masterworks and the art found everyday. read more
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Larger digs have done nothing to diminish the food coming out of the Tavolino kitchen by Rita Connelly When a restaurant makes the kind of big move that Tavolino recently accomplished, one wonders: “Why mess with a practically perfect situation? Why risk it all?” Maybe it’s like Edmund Hillary and that famous mountain: “Because it’s there.” Tavolino in its original setting was tiny and intimate …
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Italian on the Move
Montreal artist Karen Tam once turned the Khyber into a Canadian Chinese diner. Now shes transformed MSVU Art Gallery into an opium den. by Laura Kenins Walking into the Khyber building in the fall of 2003, you found offices, a record store, a ceramics studio and a Chinese food restaurant on the second floor. Most of those were legitimate businesses; the restaurant, titled No MSG at Friendship …
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Karen Tam trades spaces
Paint the town red, white and blue this Fourth of July at one of the city’s many festivals, parks, grill spots or rooftops! Wake up early, stay up late and enjoy your right to freedom on a day that boasts a full schedule of American fun.
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Go Fourth and enjoy! Your ultimate guide for things to do in NYC on Independence Day (New York Daily News)
New York firm Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners (BBB) has announced that it will begin a major renovation and adaptive reuse of Exchange Palace, a historic landmark occupying two city blocks in central Budapest.
Continue here: Beyer Blinder Belle to Restore Budapest Landmark (Architectural Record)
A “deck” is the part of the skateboard you stand on or leap up from in the course of apparently impossible maneuvers — like the midair spin called (of all things) “the impossible.”
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Playing With a Full Deck (Cleveland Scene)
The past is present in the east Georgia town of Washington.
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One-tank trip: Washington, Ga. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
East and West commingle culturally and aesthetically in a spate of lively exhibits around town.
More here: Local exhibits see East meeting West (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)