Marc Chagall

Star-Studded Portraits

Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: David Mach, Art, Video, Marc Chagall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Making Faces, Portraits, The Opera Gallery, Art Exhibitions, Arts News

The portrait (up there with landscapes, nudes and religious icons) is one of the great themes enduring throughout art history. For centuries artists h...

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Eternal Happiness In A Wedding Dress

Elizabeth Abbott | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Romantic Love, Marriage, Wedding, Sexual Fidelity, Double Portrait With Wine Glass, Marc Chagall, Wedding 1918, Bella With White Collar, Bella Rosenfeld Chagall, Weddings News
Elizabeth Abbott

Wintertime magic can mean many things. For many lovers, it can be an end to the waiting game. During the holiday season, he (or she) popped the question, and now you're getting married! Let the wedding planning begin!

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A Day Trip to the Rockefeller Preserve, Just North of NYC

Lea Lane | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Marc Chagall, Manhattan, Woody Allen, Metro-North, Rockefeller State Park Preserve, Hudson River, Union Church of Pocantico Hills, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Westchester County, Pocantico Hills, Henri Matisse, David Rockefeller, New York News
Lea Lane

Vaux and Olmsted created Central Park out of fantasy. This preserve is natural fantasy. There's even a tinge of danger. Unknown paths beckon into witchy woods. But mostly the flora and fauna offer calm.

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The Spice-Box Of Earth: Remembering Where We Come From

Rabbi Lawrence Troster | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Marc Chagall, Leonard Cohen, Max Kadushin, Judaism, Blessings, Spirituality, Normal Mysticism, Spice Box of Earth, Jewish Ritual, Religious Environmentalism, Jewish Environmentalism, Havdalah, Religion News
Rabbi Lawrence Troster

The poet Leonard Cohen once wrote: "Out of the Land of Heaven/Down comes the warm Sabbath sun/Into the spice-box of earth."

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Disgraced Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy's Art Nets $672,000 At Auction

AP | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Dali, Richard Scrushy, Alabama, Marc Chagall, Art Auctions, Lehman Brothers, Healthsouth, Bribery, Freeman, Philadelphia, Scrushy, Salvador Dali, Picasso, Painting, Arts News

PHILADELPHIA -- The art collection of disgraced health care executive Richard Scrushy brought in more than $672,000 at auction, with proceeds going to...

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Chagall Windows Back At Art Institute, With A New Shine

Chicago Sun-Times | Joy's Galaxy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illinois, America Windows, Marc Chagall, Art Institute, Chagall America Windows, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Chicago News

Marc Chagall's "America Windows" -- an iconic Art Institute of Chicago work taken off display for five years -- will be returning Nov. 1 as vibrant as...

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Astoria Characters: The Frame-O-Phile

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Astoria, Washington Crossing the Delaware, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Emanuel Leutze, Matthew Brady, Picture Frame, Smithsonian, Christie's, Sotheby's, New York News, Marc Chagall, Eli Wilner, Modigliani, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

Astoria-based Eli Wilner has become the framer of choice for the Smithsonian, Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses and the White House. "I want to frame the whole world," he says.

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