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2) Songbirds
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The Songbirds guitar museum hosted the world's largest collection of vintage guitars. Covid-19's devastating blow to the music industry forced the museum to permanently close. This film explores the final hours and cultural impact of this special collection.
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Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever mounted, now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the art world – with glowing reviews, global publicity, and tickets sold out through the entirety of its run – the Rijksmuseum's Vermeer retrospective is nothing short of an historic event. Suzanne Raes’s film follows curators, conservators, collectors, and experts in their joint mission to shine a new...
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Leonardo da Vinci is acclaimed as the world's favorite artist. Many TV shows and feature films have showcased this extraordinary genius but often not examined closely enough is the most crucial element of all: his art. Leonardo's peerless paintings and drawings will be the focus of the film present every single attributed painting, in Ultra HD quality, never seen before on the big screen.
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"Great Courses and The Teaching Company pair with the Smithsonian for a tour of American history. The Smithsonian is a repository of America's history, achievements, aspirations, and identity. It holds the artifacts of great leaders, and those of ordinary Americans. It houses scientific specimens and technological wonders. It is home to art, music, films, writings -- a vast treasure trove of objects of extraordinary beauty and outstanding design....
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A revolution is taking place in the art world and it isn't happening in Paris, Berlin or Hong Kong, but in Grand Rapids, Michigan. ArtPrize is the most highly attended art show in the world, and it awards cash prizes larger than all other competitions combined. International critics and enormous crowds pack bars, galleries and abandoned buildings all over town, taking in over 1,500 works from cerebral conceptualists and weekend hobbyists.
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Joan Miro was passionately committed to his native Catalonia and its struggle for independence from Spain. But he also longed to escape into artistic freedom. This tension drove his art in strange and beautiful ways. Miro was by turns influenced by Dada, surrealism, and abstract expressionism. His changes in styles and subjects also reflected the horrific events of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the dictatorship of Franco. This documentary...
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This 21st edition provides the most comprehensive and complete reference to world bank notes issued since 1961. This catalog reference features: 21,250 variety listings of world bank notes, 13,750 illustrations for easy identifications of bank notes and signature varieties, bank notes values in two popularly available conditions, country signature charts for specific and accurate variety identification. A network of more than 80 world paper money...
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New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art introduces a new fashion exhibition with a gala event every year on the first Monday of May. A grand fashion and cultural exhibit fundraiser for the museum's Costume Institute, the event is attended by A-list celebrities. The film gives a behind-the-scenes look at the exhibition "China: Through the Looking Glass, " conceived and organized by Met curator Andrew Bolton in 2015, and the Met Gala marking the exhibition's...
11) Dalíland
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In 1974 a young gallery assistant is drawn into the wild, never-ending party that is artist Salvador Dalí's life in New York City. As he helps the aging genius prepare for an important show, he discovers not everything is as it seems.
14) The great train story: the magnificent model railroad display at the Museum of Science and Industry
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This is the Museum of Science & Industry's exhibition on railroading today in America. This panoramic journey between Chicago and Seattle is alive with 34 HO scale trains that traverse the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains and the Cascades.
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"Witness the exhibition that literally gets under your skin and where nobody can remain indifferent. More than 8 million vistors have already admired them: the authentic anatomical specimen from Prof. von Hagens - uniquely beautiful and instructive. Experience a digital reunion with the Runner, the Chess Player, the Posed Plastination with Skin, and other plastinates. Meet the man behind the BODY WORLDS, his pioneering invention, his work."--From...