Tag: Times Square

New York Public Library: Return this Book to a Park Bench

By Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- The New York Public Library is encouraging bookworms to pass around 25,000 free copies of a new paperback it will distribute in subway stations, on park benches and in other public places. The book …

Pompeii Exhibit at New York City’s Discovery Times Square Shines Light on Buried City

NEW YORK (AP).- A new exhibition from Italy that opens Friday at New York’s Discovery Times Square captures the last gasp of the ancient city of Pompeii before it was buried under volcanic ash, mud and rock when Mount Vesuvius erupted 2,000 years ago….

Pompeii Exhibit at New York City’s Discovery Times Square Shines Light on Buried City

NEW YORK (AP).- A new exhibition from Italy that opens Friday at New York’s Discovery Times Square captures the last gasp of the ancient city of Pompeii before it was buried under volcanic ash, mud and rock when Mount Vesuvius erupted 2,000 years ago….

Times Square Alliance Presents a Major Public Art Exhibition at the Crossroads of the World

TIMES SQUARE, NY.- As part of an ongoing commitment to bring the best of contemporary art to Times Square, the Times Square Alliance presents a major public art exhibition at the Crossroads of the World as part of Armory Arts Week. The Times Square Sho…

Times Square Alliance Presents a Major Public art Exhibition at the Crossroads of the World

NEW YORK, NY.- As part of an ongoing commitment to bring the best of contemporary art to Times Square, the Times Square Alliance presents a major public art exhibition at the Crossroads of the World as part of Armory Arts Week. The Times Square Show 20…

King Tut NYC Exhibition at Discovery Times Square Exposition Extends to January 17, 2011

NEW YORK, NY.- At a sold-out lecture last evening in New York City, Dr. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, announced a two-week extension of the King Tut exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Ph…

King Tutankhamun’s Chariot Headed to Discovery Exhibition

CAIRO (AP).- King Tutankhamun’s chariot is set to fly to New York this week to finally join the Discovery Times Square Exposition exhibit of the famed boy ruler, Egypt’s antiquities chief said Monday. Zahi Hawass said the chariot will leave Egypt on We…

WWII Nurse in Iconic Times Square Kissing Sailor Photo Dies at 91

LOS ANGELES (REUTERS).- A nurse famously photographed being
kissed
by an American sailor in New York’s Times Square in 1945 to celebrate
the end of
World War Two has died at the age of 91, her family said on Tuesday. The
V-J Day
pictur…

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