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Nearly every major cultural institution in New York has an organization devoted to cultivating future donors. They do this through a series of incentives like free admission to shows, openings and parties, where open bars are meant to open wallets. To oversimplify: liquor out, with hopes of money in later.
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The Killers at Barclays Center, the fabled Unicorn, the last ABT appearance by Irina Dvorovenko and the Manhattan Cocktail Classic drinking extravaganza are among the Muse highlights of this weekend.
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The Frieze New York fair, the Downtown Music Festival and PS1’s ecological Expo are among the Muse highlights for this weekend.
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It was dark, crowded and loud, strobe- lit by Sex Pistols concert footage. I smelled leather and vinyl. I immediately got a headache.
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Andrew J. Hall, who’s building a farm empire in Vermont selling lavender soap and cider, last night bought a trip to handmade-cigar haven Cuba.
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Marissa Mayer, chief executive officer of Yahoo! Inc., colored her hair in pinstripes of red, blue and green to go with her red dress.
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Walking through the Costume Institute's new "Punk: Chaos to Couture" show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, visitors are treated to two "facsimiles," one after another. The first is a faithful recreation of the bathroom at the New York punk venue CBGB, or at least faithful to its most gracious moments. The second, past a few dresses, is a recreation of Vivienne Westwood's London boutique, complete with a period cash register and a double rack of T-shirts.
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I was immersed in Velazquez’s “Portrait of Duke Francesco I d’Este,” now on view at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, when someone grabbed my arm.
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A 15th-century illustrated volume of Mishneh Torah from the collection of Michael and Judy Steinhardt, which was planned to be sold at Sotheby’s this morning, was jointly purchased by the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sotheby’s said today.
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You enter the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s poignant exhibition “Photography and the American Civil War” through a white military field tent.
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