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Ai, Weiwei Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section History ART / General Art and social action Art thefts Massachusetts Boston Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Muslims Social conditions Theft from museums Massachusetts Boston United States World War, 1939-1945 Art and the warBringley, Patrick
Summary: "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 home for a decade. Here he explore his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the subculture of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRINGLEY, PATRICK BRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio BringleyEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: "Describes gig jobs in the creative arts, including the history of gig jobs in the creative arts, working a gig job, the pros and cons of gig work, and the future of gig jobs in the creative arts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: BrightPoint Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 338.4 MACEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: Describes two Americans in Italy--one an artist, the other a scholar--who tracked down and protected historic artwork worth billions by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli in advance of the approaching Nazi army in 1943.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5345 EDSBowman, Leslie Greene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745 BOWHigonnet, Anne
Summary: By 1850 cash-flush Americans like J.P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry E. Huntington, Arabella Huntington, and Mildred and Robert Bliss went on collecting campaigns that netted masterpiece after masterpiece, along with the furniture and fittings of dozens of aristocratic residences. From the outset, these collectors planned to present their trophies to the public as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Periscope Pub. 2009
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Summary: "...a moving text about the life and work of social activist and artist, Ai Weiwei. Told in...lyrical writing, this story shines a light on Ai Weiwei's journey and focuses on Safe Passage, his exhibition of thousands of life jackets at the Konzerthaus Berlin. Moved by the life jackets discarded on the shores of the Greek Island of Lesbos by people seeking safety far from home, Ai Weiwei created...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AIEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: "The previously untold story of a little-known WWII Allied division whose mission was to track down European art and treasures that had been looted by the Nazis at Hitler's command"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars EdselKirkpatrick, Sidney.
Summary: Tells the riveting true story of how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth and equally unholy Reich.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 KIRCappelli, Peter
Summary: Annotation Peter Cappelli confronts the myth of the skills gap and provides an actionable path forward to put people back to work.Even in a time of perilously high unemployment, companies contend that they cannot find the employees they need. Pointing to a skills gap, employers argue applicants are simply not qualified; schools aren't preparing students for jobs; the government isn't letting in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wharton Digital Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3112 CAPDay, Nick (Nicholas)
Summary: "On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364.16 DAYKinchin, Juliet
Summary: Drawing on the wealth of automobile-related design, art and architecture in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Automania takes an in-depth look at an industrial object that changed the world. From its first appearance as a plaything for the rich in the 1890s to its establishment as a utilitarian necessity of modern life, the car has transformed the ways in which we live, work and enjoy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum of Modern Art 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.9 KINFriis-Hansen, Dana
Summary: "At the invitation of the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM), in 2013, Alexis Rockman began research for the Great Lakes Cycle, an ambitious suite of paintings and works on paper that the artist created over the course of four years. It will debut in Grand Rapids in 2018 and tour throughout the Great Lakes region"--introduction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 FRIKurkjian, Stephen A.
Summary: "In a secret meeting in 1981, a master thief named Louis Royce gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime. As a kid, Royce had visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and made a habit of sneaking in at night to find a good place to sleep. He knew the Museum's security was lax, and he gave this information to a boss of the Boston criminal underworld. It took years before the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 KURBoser, Ulrich.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1628 BOSBoser, Ulrich.
Summary: One museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld--the story behind the lost Gardner masterpieces worth $500 million and the art detective who swore to get them back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 BOSAhmed, Akbar S.
Summary: Tensions over Islam were escalating in Europe even before 9/11. Since then, repeated episodes of terrorism together with the refugee crisis have dramatically increased the divide between the majority population and Muslim communities, pushing the debate well beyond concerns over language and female dress. Meanwhile, the parallel rise of right-wing, nationalist political parties throughout the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.6 AHMSelznick, Brian.
Summary: Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SELGable, Michelle
Summary: "1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotnà is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of the OSS's few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she's tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale of enemy soldiers. Despite limited resources, Niki and a scrappy team of artists, forgers, and others--now nicknamed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABBonfante-Warren, Alexandra.
Summary: The Musee d'Orsay contains one of the most magnificent collections of 19th- and early 20th-century art in the world. Limited to the years between 1848 and 1914, the collection showcases Impressionist and Postimpressionist favorites by Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Van Gogh, Seurat, and Signac. In addition, Realist, Nabis, Symbolist, and Fauvist movements are represented in works by Millet, Gauguin,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROCKEFELLER, ABBY KertRea, Amy C.
Summary: "Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Muslim immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 REANational Museum of American History (U.S.)
Summary: "U.S. history gets the star treatment with this essential guide to the Smithsonian's first permanent exhibition on pop culture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2022