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STORIES FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 8-14, 2002 These are the stories most clicked-on
by ArtsJournal readers last week:
- Picasso, Van Gogh and Some of the Boys Sitting Around in a Bar
Artists see the world in their own stylistic ways. Here's a Flash animation that
imagines what the everyday world might look like through the eyes of different
artists. FlashAward 2002, Germany
- Mahler Manuscript Means Much So what difference does the
discovery last month of a new manuscript of Mahler's First Symphony make? "It
changes not the substance of the symphony but its sound: its orchestration and
how, by means of stress and rhythmic detail, its ideas are articulated — how,
in a word, it speaks." The New York Times
12/08/02
- Must Reads The 25 best books of the year? The Village Voice
Literary Supplement has a list... Village Voice Literary
Supplement 12/10/02
- The Secret Bestsellers Yes there's the prestigious New York
Times Bestseller List. And the names that appear on it are generally known to
one and all. But talk to the people who are actually in the bookstores selling
books, and you hear about an entirely different list... Are these the "real"
bestsellers? MobyLives 12/10/02
- How The Van Gogh Burglers Made Their Score Over the weekend
they pulled off their heist at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum. "Employing low-tech
cunning against the hi-tech security features of a heavily protected modern gallery,
the cat burglars thwarted CCTV cameras, alarms, motion sensors and 24-hour security
guards by simply leaning a ladder against the back of the museum, climbing in
through the roof and taking what they wanted." The
Observer (UK) 12/08/02
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