DescriptionHoused in Frank Lloyd Wright's world-famous spiral design, the exceptional Guggenheim collection encircles visitors in a world of late 19th and 20th-century masters, featuring an assortment of Impressionist, post-Impressionist, and other modernist works. Join Solomon R. Guggenheim Director, Lisa Dennison, as she guides you on a personal tour of selected works from the Museum's permanent collection. Focusing on masterpieces from the Thannhauser Galleries, Denison explains how Impressionism and the schools that followed set the stage for abstraction. The tour highlights works by Degas, Manet, Van Gogh, Picasso, Rothko, and Kandinsky, as listeners are guided on a journey from the more realistic to the abstract. Highlights include Van Gogh's Mountains at Saint-Remy and Picasso's Woman With Yellow Hair.
DescriptionWhen an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her country home the night before 9/11, it takes all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the connection between her and the possible motive for her death: a priceless Van Gogh painting. In the end, however, it's a young woman in the North Tower when the first plane crashed into the building that has the courage and determination to take on both sides of the law and avenge the old lady's death. Anna Petrescu is missing and presumed dead after 9/11, and she uses her new status to escape from America - only to be pursued across the world from Toronto to London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Bucharest. But it is only when she returns to New York that the mystery unfolds.
DescriptionIn Life Studies, Susan Vreeland has written a deeply moving, richly textured collection of stories that explore art through the eyes of ordinary people. Rather than focusing directly on great Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists like Manet…
DescriptionFew activities seem to promise us as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel to, we seldom ask why we go and how we might become more fulfilled by doing so. With the help of a selection of writers, artists, and thinkers, including Flaubert, Edward Hopper, Wordsworth, and Van Gogh, Alain de Botton's best-selling The Art of Travel provides invaluable insights into everything from holiday romance to hotel minibars, airports to sightseeing. The perfect antidote to those guides that tell us what to do when we get there, The Art of Travel tries to explain why we really went in the first place, and helpfully suggests how we might be happier on our journeys.
DescriptionWhen an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her English country home on the night before September 11, 2001, it will take all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the connection between her death and a priceless Van Gogh, which is s…
