Published: Feb 23, 2012
HONG KONG — Traffic was diverted and uniformed guards were on patrol as several hundred guests got a private preview of Asia Society’s fortress-like Hong Kong headquarters earlier this month. Heads of government and culture made their way around the New York organization’s largest overseas outpost — a new compound that
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Published: Feb 20, 2012
Kenny Perry shot a two-under-par 70 for his second Champions Tour title, cruising to a five-shot victory at 14-under 196 in the ACE Group Classic in Naples, Fla. ¶ Top-ranked Yani Tseng successfully defended her L.P.G.A. Thailand title in Chonburi, birdieing the final two holes for a six-under 66 to hold off her playing partner, Ai Miyazato,
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
HONG’AI, China — Despite the absence of road signs or promotional Web sites, a dozen or so people each day manage to find their way to this sleepy hamlet that sits in the fold of a dusky mountain in northwestern Qinghai Province. They congratulate themselves for having found the place — and for evading the police — but then
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
Each November, a papermaker named Timothy Barrett gathers a group of friends and students on the grounds of the University of Iowa Research Park, a onetime tuberculosis sanitarium in Coralville, Iowa, for what he bills as a harvest event. Armed with hook-shaped knives, Barrett and his party hack away at a grove of bare, shrublike trees called kozo
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
Ai Miyazato shot a seven-under 65 to take a one-stroke lead over top-ranked Yani Tseng after the third round of the L.P.G.A. Thailand. Miyazato, the Japanese player who won the 2010 tournament, birdied five of the first six holes on the back nine. She had a 14-under 202 total on Siam Country Club’s Pattaya Old Course in Chonburi. Tseng shot
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
Phil Mickelson scrambled his way to a one-under-par 70 at the Northern Trust Open in Los Angeles and was tied for the lead with Keegan Bradley. ¶ Kenny Perry shot a 10-under 62 in the Champions Tour’s Ace Group Classic in Naples, Fla. He is three shots ahead of Larry Mize. ¶ Ai Miyazato shot a seven-under 65 to take a one-stroke
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Published: Feb 17, 2012
If “Print/Out,” an overbearing exhibition opening on Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art, is any indication, the intimate fine-art print is an endangered species. Organized by Christophe Cherix, the museum’s chief curator of prints and illustrated books, the show presents printed works by 40 artists and artist groups from the
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Published: Feb 17, 2012
Ai Miyazato shot a five-under 67 to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the L.P.G.A. Thailand in Pattaya. Sports Briefing | Golf
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Published: Feb 12, 2012
''NO guidebooks and no saying no'' are the rules of the road for Thomas Beug and Tim Kafalas, the hosts of a travel show called ''This Is My City.'' Episodes of the series can be viewed on thisismycity.tv. ''Travel is a social endeavor for us. We find a local in every city we go to, and we get them to take us on a mad adventure over the course of a
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Published: Feb 05, 2012
After millenniums in which mythical beings, allegories and grand philosophical ideas were staples of Western art, the past century saw the triumph of the mundane. Collages were made with newspapers, train tickets and cheap wallpaper. Toilets and teacups entered the sculptural canon, and Pop artists painted advertisements and comic books. ''Rachel
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