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Stacks by Tony Cragg, 1975, the Tate Collection. To make this work Cragg arranged miscellaneous objects and materials, collected at random, into a solid, geometric structure. The layering suggests geological strata, showing how both natural and fabricated elements are...
October 16, 2009 2:50 pm
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Lost Alfred Hitchcock 1973 TV interview found intact, now on YouTube
Alfred Hitchcock famously directed Psycho and other classic movies, but many of us first knew him as kids, when he hosted a weekly nighttime series of TV stories called Alfred Hitchcock Presents from 1955-65. Sir Alfred died in 1980 --...
October 15, 2009 4:57 am
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Gone today, here tomorrow: Polaroid to relaunch instant cameras
Sept. 26 2009: Polaroid Last picture show. Telegraph (U.K.) As the final cartridges of Polaroid film pass their use-by date, an exhibition of the finest photographers to use the instant format demonstrates just how much it will be missed... Oct....
October 14, 2009 2:20 am
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Providence ranked 22nd-smartest city at Tina Brown's 'Daily Beast'
Former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown's Daily Beast site ranks America's Smartest Cities--From First to Worst and Providence is #22: #22, PROVIDENCE Metro Area Population: 1,596,611 Daily Beast IQ Score: 110 Providence is home to half of...
October 12, 2009 3:09 pm
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Notes from the flu
Monday 11:37 a.m. I slept through the night, and woke late, feeling cool-headed and clear-eyed. My voice is husky, but most of the syllables are now audible. More important, I feel alive again. This flu packs a wallop. I spent...
October 12, 2009 11:37 am
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