Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Fifth Avenue Renovation Plans

February 8, 2012 – 8:17 am |

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has unveiled plans for a comprehensive redesign of the four-block-long outdoor plaza that runs in front of its landmark Fifth Avenue façade, from 80th to 84th Streets in Manhattan. Rendering showing bird’s-eye view of proposed Fifth Avenue plaza redesign (image: OLIN) The plan also calls for the creation of new fountains—to replace the deteriorating ones that have been in use since they were built in the 1970s along with the existing plaza. The fountains will be ... Read More

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The Life and Times of Paddington Bear™ at Reading Museum

March 17, 2010 – 11:39 amNo Comment

Celebrating the famous bear from Darkest Peru and his creator, Michael Bond, who spent his childhood in Reading. This exciting exhibition tells the story from the very first book A Bear Called Paddington, published in 1958, to the most recent title in the series Paddington: Here and Now, published in 2008 – exactly fifty years later.

Discover how the idea for Paddington began on Christmas Eve 1956 and how various illustrators, from Peggy Fortnum to R.W. Alley, have developed the way he looks in books and on the television.

The exhibition opens on Saturday, March 27 and runs until Sunday, July 4.

www.readingmuseum.org.uk

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