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2018.
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Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women--the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others--and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. As the city's richest art patrons...
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"A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic...
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MUSEUM PASS. Peabody Essex Museum collections include internationally renowned maritime collections, American decorative arts, and art from China, Japan, Korea, India, and the Pacific Islands. Also on display is one of the world's largest collections of Asian decorative arts produced for the Western market.
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Happily Inc volume 3
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English
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For Ronan Mitchell, the moodiest of the five famous Mitchell brothers, being stranded for days with his perky studio manager is a fate worse than death--until she forces the brooding artist to see what he's been missing all these years.
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Dedham's Museums All Around Us for Adults
Dedham's Winter Holiday Gift Guide 2023
NPR: Books We Love 2023
Dedham's Winter Holiday Gift Guide 2023
NPR: Books We Love 2023
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"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"--
"Only a few select people enjoy unrestricted access to every nook and cranny of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and among them are the guards who keep a watchful eye on the two-million-square-foot treasure house. For Bringley, the Museum was a temporary refuge that became his home away from...
8) Imagine!
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"When a boy visits an art museum and one of the paintings comes to life, he has an afternoon of adventure and discovery [that] changes how he sees the world ever after"--
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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"After being discarded on the floor of an art museum, Stub (a museum ticket) has nowhere to go until Daisy the docent's helper (a name tag) finds him and offers him a tour of the museum. Stub meets a badge who keeps the artworks safe, a computer who archives them, and other characters who work there. From the director's office to the library to the conservator's studio to the loading dock, Stub discovers who does what, and what goes on, behind the...
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When her dream job turns into a living nightmare, causing her to become the prime suspect in a murder investigation, art gallery manager Alice Humphrey must prove that she has been set up, a deadly mission that plunges her into a high-tech criminal conspiracy that is shockingly linked to her own family. She arrives at the gallery one morning to meet her boss, Drew Campbell, only to find the place cleaned out, save for Drew's corpse. She is bewildered...
16) Matthew's dream
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English
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A visit to an art museum inspires a young mouse to become a painter.
17) Mousterpiece
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Janson the mouse, who lives in a museum, becomes an acclaimed artist by copying the styles of paintings she sees there. Includes notes about the artists and works featured.
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A fresh new look to celebrate 25 years of Katie making art an adventure! When the Mona Lisa's smile goes missing, it's up to Katie to help her find it again. On the way, they meet a princess, a winged lion and an angel. And wherever you find Katie, you'll find fun close behind! Katie 25 years of making art an adventure! The best way to introduce children to a lifetime love of art. Includes five masterpieces from five Italian Renaissance artists: Mona...
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Whodunit Detective Agency volume 5
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Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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When a night watchman claims that he saw the mummy at the art museum walking around on the same night a valuable painting was stolen, Jerry and Maya are summoned by the chief of police to get to the bottom of the spooky mystery.
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