LIVERPOOL.- The only known surviving Titanic First Class ticket and other rarely-seen items linked to the disaster will be displayed in Liverpool in 2012 to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking. The ticket belonged to Reverend Stuart Holden, vicar…
Titanic and Liverpool: New 2012 Exhibition to Mark Centenary of Sinking
LIVERPOOL.- The only known surviving Titanic First Class ticket and other rarely-seen items linked to the disaster will be displayed in Liverpool in 2012 to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking. The ticket belonged to Reverend Stuart Holden, vicar…
Virtual President’s Desk Enlivens JFK’s 1800s Desk
BOSTON (AP).- As a little girl, Caroline Kennedy hung out at her father’s desk while he worked in the country’s most famous office. Now the library she works with to preserve her father’s memory has introduced a way anyone can sit — virtually …
Al Hirschfeld’s Chair, Desk Going to Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
NEW YORK (AP).- Show-biz caricaturist Al Hirschfeld immortalized the world of theater with his fluid ink-and-pen portraits while seated in a barbershop chair behind a worn century-old drafting desk in the fourth-floor studio of his Manhattan town hous…
Art on the Underground Daria Martin’s Daydream Survey
LONDON.- As part of a series of artworks commissioned for the Jubilee line, Daria Martin has undertaken a survey to discover passengers’ daydreams as they travel on the Jubilee line. Using a questionnaire designed in the 1970s by Auke Tellegen and adap…