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Through dogged persistence, Albert Barnes put together what many critics consider the world’s finest collection of post-Impressionist and early modern paintings. – [VIDEO]

“The new facility is scheduled to open in May 2012, and is intended to reproduce the collection as laid out by Barnes himself, with rooms of the same size and proportion as those in Merion.”

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You need the f*c*i**g Flash technology to see the Google Art Project. – [RANT]

http://www.googleartproject.com/ TAKEAWAY: 1. Google lied to us when they said they are now focusing on HTML5. 2. Don’t buy an iPad yet. Buy a state of the art (big screen, big pixel resolution) computer (Mac, hopefully). ADDENDUM: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Google_Art_Project

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New York’s Guggenheim Museum turns 50.

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Good Morning America.

I Told You So. by Ed Miracle This painting was on the cover of Thomas Friedman’s book, The World Is Flat.

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The prediction market world should be flat.

Thomars Friedman’s book, The World Is Flat. — This blog entry by innovation blogger Dominic Basulto (about Indian outsourcing giant Infosys touting a new Think Flat website) makes me think of something. We are in an industry that is compartmented … Continue reading

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I Told You So.

I Told You So. by Ed Miracle This painting was on the cover of Thomas Friedman’s book, The World Is Flat.

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