Canadian-American artist Agnes Martin is best known for geometric paintings based on grid patterns. Like many of the abstract expressionists with ... Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, and Jack Youngerman, were brought together in the exhibition "Nine Artists/Coenties Slip," held at the downtown branch of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1974. Although the Coenties Slip painters never constituted a formal group, they represented, in their diverse ways, a break with abstract expressionism. ... . The critic Lawrence Alloway included several of Agnes Martin's compositions in the imp...

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... Quebec. We can see Canada's own movements leading the way in new schools of artistic technique, which could be considered the first truly Canadian art as its own unique entity. The city of Montreal during the early twentieth century we see changes begin to unfold, happening at a ... it during this crucial era we can get a unique look back into the sentiment of the time. The Montreal Museum of Fine Art features a permanent exhibit on Quebec and Canadian Art. With its own wing and many works featured in an array of mediums; a vast display of everything from ... up until around 1950 (span o...

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... sets (just instruments) to Buckinghamshire, England. One was given to the Verney family to be put on display at the Clayden House, and the other was given to the British Museum's Department of Ethnology. Even though the west now had the capability of making gamelan music, it was a long time before the west actually heard gamelan. The instruments brought over by ... Exhibition in Amsterdam. America's first introduction to gamelan took place in 1883 at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This ensemble actually left their instruments to be kept at the Field Museum in Chicago It was the ne...

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... did not matter- everyone was equal and, no pessimists were allowed. The house even incorporated a garden, which was extremely rare in the midst of war. At present the house is a museum, with the interior of the house being exactly the same of what it was during the war years of 1914-1918. As stalemate set in Generals realised not only did ... since the "race to the sea" it had seemed that the horrible attritional warfare would never end. No general seemed capable of coming up with a successful plan. Only when the Canadian General Arthur Currie and the French General Nivelle devised this...

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... April 1912. Many dreamed that the wreak would be found in one piece and that it could be risen back to the surface of the ocean and made it a floating museum. There were numerous suggestions of possible ways to raise the wreck, some as farfetched as filling the hull with ping pong balls to make her buoyant. Of course, this did ... bulge outwards. And so this is how the Titanic wreck now lays upon the ocean floor. Yet, her resting site is not a peaceful one. Despite attempts by the American and Canadian governments to prevent looting of the wreck, the submersible Nautile, sponsored by Am...

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