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Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik , 1932-2006, Korean-American artist, b. Seoul. A performance and conceptual artist, Paik worked mainly with video, integrating visual images with music. A characteristic work, Fin de Siecle II (1989-90; Whitney Mus., New York City), incorporates hundreds of television monitors,... Read more |
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New York Review of Books
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Starting Up First published in February 1963 during a New York newspaper strike, the New York Review of Bookswas intended to fill the void left by the absence of the reviews usually published by The New York Timesand the New York... Read more |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York New York)
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, is an international showplace for twentieth-century art, that is committed to the exhibition of nonobjective art and a movement "from the materialistic to the... Read more |
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Nam Tai Electronics Inc
Nam Tai Electronics, Inc. 15/F., China Merchants Tower Shun Tak Centre 168-200 Connaught Road Central Hong Kong Telephone: (852) 2341-0273 Fax: (852) 2263-1223 Web site: http://www.namtai.com Public Company Incorporated: 1975 Employees: 4,274 Sales: $406.3 million (2003) Stock... Read more |
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Karl Taylor Compton
Compton, Karl Taylor (b. Wooster, Ohio, 14 September 1887; d. New York, N.Y., 22 June 1954), physics. Like his brothers, Arthur Holly Compton and Wilson Martindale Compton, Karl Taylor Compton owed much of his later achievements in American science and education to the stimulating intellectual... Read more |
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Arundhati Roy
ROY, Arundhati Nationality: Indian. Born: Kerala, India, c. 1960. Education: Attended architectural school. Career: Sold cakes on a beach in Goa, India; worked as an architect; actress, screenwriter, and novelist. Lives in New Delhi, India. Awards: Booker prize, 1997. Agent: c/o Random... Read more |
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Solomon Franklin Smith
Smith, Sol[omon Franklin] (1801–69), actor and manager. He was born on a farm in Norwich, New York, but raised in nearby Solon and at the age of twelve ran away, walking three hundred miles to join his brothers in business in Boston. In 1819 he ran away from the business and made his acting... Read more |
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Katharine Graham
K ATHARINEG RAHAM Born: June 16, 1917 New York, New York Died: July 17, 2001 Boise, Idaho American publisher The renowned publisher Katharine Graham took over the management of the Washington Postafter the death of her husband.... Read more |
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Holly Solomon, gallery owner, patron of pop artists
00-00-0000 Holly Solomon, gallery owner, patron of...Star B Biographical: HOLLY SOLOMON NEW YORK - Holly Solomon, a Manhattan art dealer famous...as diverse as video artist Nam ... |
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Arts pioneer finds picture dim in SoHo;Holly Solomon gallery may close after...
...decades, Holly Solomon has...one of the New York art...15. Ms. Solomon's bankruptcy...years. Ms. Solomon and her husband...many of New York's leading...Ms. Solomon served ... |
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SMITHSONIAN ACQUIRES SEVERAL IMPORTANT ARCHIVES
...influential Holly Solomon Gallery, the...these three new, highly important...The Holly Solomon Gallery records...in 1975 until Solomon's death in...Matta-Clark, Nam June ... |
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TV and video.(television art and video art)(Cover Story)(Column)
...avant-gardist Nam June Paik, who has, more...profusion and, since Paik is Korean by birth...situated itself in New York, since it showed...circuit, those in Holly Solomon's gallery ... |