inetic Sculptures are amphibious, human powered works of art that have been custom built for this unique race.  Each May, the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) hosts the East Coast Kinetic Sculpture Race Championship at the Baltimore Inner Harbor in Maryland.  The race covers nearly 15 miles and lasts all day.  The sculptures compete in a race [...]

rom the intricately-carved white gypsum panels and traditional detailed lightscreens marrying side by side with softly curved vanilla arches, Katara harkens present-day visitors back to a yesteryear long, long ago marked by contrasts of old and new. Wandering the stone-clad walkways cooled by precisely-placed awnings above shielding the afternoon-setting February sun,it soon becomes apparent what [...]

he Christmas tree and Neapolitan Baroque crèche at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a long-standing yuletide tradition in New York, is now on view for the holiday season through January 8, 2012.  The brightly lit, 20-foot blue spruce—with a collection of 18th-century Neapolitan angels and cherubs hovering among its boughs and groups of realistic crèche [...]

ubai has enough activities to keep visitors busy for weeks. But what if you’re here on business with only a brief amount of free time? Your best option for an overview of the city’s past and present is Dubai’s Big Bus City Tour. The hop on/hop off style allows visitors to spend as much or [...]

Article By: Harvey & Alice Diamond…October 2011 he MET is one of the world’s most respected and most visited museums.  Located conveniently at 1000 5th Avenue and 82nd Street in New York, only a stones throw from Central Park, the Guggenhiem,  the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium makes it a must see [...]

Exhibition Date: September 27, 2011–February 5, 2012 Press Preview: Monday, September 26, 10:00 a.m.–noon Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi, 1501-1547), a pupil of Raphael, was a leading innovator of the late Renaissance style known as Mannerism, and one of the most influential Italian artists of the 16th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired [...]