The art scene has picked up to such an extent that last March also witnessed the launch of the country's first art guide (appropriately titled "Saudi Art Guide"), available online and in app form.

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Here offerings include a tour of Chicago sites made famous in film, a private architectural boat tour, cooking classes, or the latest, a customized private tour of the famed Art Institute of Chicago, customized in the sense that the hotel will arrange for your guide to be an expert in the area of art that interests you.

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And we have one great aid to guide us to what actually is that great art.

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Mr. Goodwin also sees his guide as a tool for new buyers for whom "the art market can be a daunting place" as it often doesn't follow the rules of other more conventional trading arenas.

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Billed as part travel guide and part cultural, historical reference, it explores history, art and architecture, furniture and antiques, cooking, immigration, and English words of Dutch origin.

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Collected as "To Myself: Notes on Life, Art, and Artists, " Redon's journal entries nevertheless do not serve as a guide to the significance of his own work.

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Linda Friedlaender, the curator of education at the Yale Center for British Art, and Irwin Braverman, at Yale's medical school, created the program a decade ago and guide groups through the New Haven museum.

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Let this roadmap be your guide to the American states and cities that have elevated the act of slow-cooking meat to an art form.

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