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Great Bridges of the World
Monday, May 11, 2009 11:32 AM

27 March 2009 to 30 June 2009 Tower Bridge Exhibition - Tower Bridge Road, London. SE1 2UP 020 7403 3761 The exhibition includes 22 colour photographs, with the images rotated so 12 iconic bridges are on display at any one time. Highlights of Bridges of the World include: The Pont du Gard aqueduct at Nimes, built between 40 and 60AD The Millau Viaduct on the... Read More...

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Filed under: paris, IMAGES, japan, 16th century zig zag bridge, great bridges of the world, tower bridge exhibition, colour photographs, nimes, the pont du gard, the brooklyn bridge, the milan viaduct, iconic bridges, shanghai, barcelona, akashi kaikyo bridge

Turner landscape sells for £9.1m
Friday, January 30, 2009 11:27 AM

A Turner landscape has fetched £9.1m ($12.9m) in an auction at Sotheby's in New York. For the past 25 years it has remained in the private collection of fine art dealer Richard Feigen. It toured Paris, London and Los Angeles before being sold at Sotheby's in New York as part of its Important Old Masters Paintings sale. The painting was secured by an anonymous... Read More...

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Filed under: london, new york, paris, landscape, los angeles, old masters painting, anonymous telephone bidder, auction, national dance, ancient greece, sold, joseph mallord william turner, sotheby, turner

Design Cities
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 1:40 PM

5 September 2008 to 4 January 2009 Design Museum Shad Thames Bermondsey SE1 2YD The exhibition looks at how these cities contributed to the evolution of design and how design, in turn, shaped contemporary culture. Design Cities tells the story of contemporary design by focusing on 7 cities at their creative heights: London, Vienna, Dessau, Paris, Los Angeles... Read More...

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Filed under: london, milan, paris, furniture, le corbusier in paris, charles and ray eames in la, objects, los angeles, design museum, fashio, the great exhibition in london, tokyo, bauhaus in dessau, textiles, the creative explosion in tokyo, the milan scene, vienna, contemporary design, industrial pieces, design cities, prints, adolf loos in vienna, 7 cities, dessau

Sisley in England & Wales
Thursday, December 18, 2008 5:37 PM

12 November 2008 to 15 February 2009 12 Nov 2008 - 15 Feb 2009 Mon, Tue, Thu - Sun 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM; Wed 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day National Gallery Trafalgar Square, London London WC2N 5DN Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) was one of the greatest landscape painters of the 19th century and a leading figure in the Impressionist... Read More...

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Filed under: london, national gallery, paris, charing cross bridge, sisley in england & wales, painter, life & light, impressionist, regatta at hampton court, molesey weir, landscape, thames