Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'nationalgallery'
June 17, 2007
Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network." It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the ist-a-verse"August 23, 2004
In a bold display of chutzpah, robbers stole International > Europe > Munch's 'Scream' Is Stolen From a Crowded Museum in Oslo" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/23/international/europe/23scream.html?ex=1251000000&en=4a86bfd733adc4c6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland">two Edvard Munch paintings during museum hours yesterday, including the iconic Scream painting. Robbers brushed past visitors at the Munch Museum to take the paintings off the walls, and then sped away in an Audi. This might be the one instance where countries less peaceful than Norway get to crow about their overzealous......
Continue Reading "Oops! We Let Robbers Steal Our Paintings"August 4, 2004
Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (link to his foundation) died today at age 95. It's very sad, but he lived a long, rich life and we're lucky for that. - The early obituary from Reuters - Cartier-Bresson was one of the founders of the Magnum Photo Agency - He had a show at the National Gallery a couple years ago; also, a Washington Post section dedicated to his show - Google on Henri-Cartier Bresson, where you can......
Continue Reading "Henri Cartier-Bresson Dies"
