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April 8 – The British National Gallery first opens to the public in the building purpose-designed for it by William Wilkins in Trafalgar Square, London.; August 31 – Scottish-born scene painter David Roberts sets sail for Egypt, with the encouragement of J. M. W. Turner, to produce a series of drawings of the region for use as the basis for paintings and chromolithographs.
Cyrus Miller's carnival has come to town. Its chief draw is a gorilla named Goliath. Each night, Goliath is teased by a trapeze artist named Laverne. She swings back and forth, just out of reach from the simian's upraised arms. This frustrates Goliath, but audiences are thrilled.
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Tonight, you can spend it all in one place, beginning at 6 p.m., when Sotheby's offers pieces from the late Sydell Miller's astounding art collection at "A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of ...
The American University Museum is a three-story, 30,000-square-foot (3,000 m 2) museum and sculpture garden located within the university's Katzen Arts Center.As the region's largest university facility for exhibiting art, the museum's permanent collection highlights the holdings of the Katzen and Watkins collection.
Alfred Jacob Miller (January 2, 1810 – June 26, 1874) was an American artist best known for his paintings of trappers and Native Americans in the fur trade of the western United States. He also painted numerous portraits and genre paintings in and around Baltimore during the mid-nineteenth century.
The main courtyard of the museum. The Calvet Museum (French: musée Calvet, pronounced [myze kalvÉ›]) is the main museum in Avignon.Since the 1980s the collection has been split between two buildings, with the fine arts housed in an 18th-century hôtel particulier and a separate Lapidary Museum in the former chapel of the city's Jesuit college on rue de la République.
It's been 15 years since Miley Cyrus appeared nearly nude on the cover of Vanity Fair. Now, the singer is sharing behind-the-scenes details about the edgy photo shoot that sparked quite a controversy.