Jeremy Lin, the 23-year-old Knicks guard, has ascended from afterthought to New York folk hero in half a week.
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Never mind that some museums have faltered after opening a flashy new building, most notably the American Folk Art Museum in New York.
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Buyers included a shopping center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore and the American Folk Art Museum in New York City.
Now a new show at the American Folk Art Museum features 25 previously unseen pictures from the Dunievitz collection.
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And Lindsey could shield his church-going folk against usurious New York bankers.
Wertkin, director of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City, who is planning a 1999 sequel to his museum's 1975 tramp art exhibit.
As the duo behind the comedy and musical group Flight of the Conchords, you might be wondering what a folk band from New Zealand can offer by way of business advice.
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The challenge for Mr Wowereit is to balance the interests of Berlin's new elite with those of ordinary folk.
Still, the new report shows the highest income folk, who are heavily dependent on capital gains, felt the market pain too.
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Plenty of local business-folk yearn for a new Karajan, who they reckon would bring back the good old days when the town was awash with visitors brandishing gold credit cards.
In 2000, when Congress renewed the Older Americans Act (a collection of goodies for retired folk) it added a new programme offering the states grants to help grandparents.
Although built in 1901, the one I climb aboard looks spanking new, and was christened after the Swiss folk-hero Wilhelm Tell.
The new markets for books in the languages of ordinary folk standardized speech, creating hard boundaries between peoples.
The government's position owes more to prudence than to any new-found determination to be nice to country folk.
Cynical folk may suspect that HealthSouth's new bylaw is partly intended to draw a line under the firm's past scandals.
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With the advent of Christianity, churches adopted some elements of cult and folk tradition to coerce pagans into the new religion.
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To me, watching Wynton Marsalis construct a new piece from the chord progressions of a South African folk song is a little like magic.
On Sept. 3 a musician named Carter Albrecht, who was a member of the folk-rock group Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, was shot to death in Dallas after a night of strange and uncharacteristically violent behavior.
The musician played at events across the US from folk festivals to the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York and recorded some 60 albums, with his most popular songs including Tom Dooley, Shady Grove and Rising Sun Blues.
New gadget lands at the iFixit labs, and the good folk there give it a teardown.
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'Titanic The Image', a major new exhibition, is being staged in partnership with the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
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They also caught a rare performance by folk musician Rodriguez, who is featured in a new award winning film Searching for Sugarman.
"With Dylan, and to have this happen again means everything to us, " Julie Becker, a native New Orleanian, said while waiting for an encore from the folk-rock pioneer.
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She says New York's best music scene - called anti-folk and comprising singer-songwriters who perform informally - did not get covered by the NME's recent cover story about the city.
MoMA officials, who are looking to hire an architect for the addition on the folk-art site, have said they expected the new structure to contain 10, 000 square feet of gallery space.
The lucky folk over at Refinery 29 got a tour of the New York campus, complete with games room, library and, well, you imagine it and they probably had it.
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The good folk of Harvard, Ashfield and other long-suffering New England towns (again, beautifully evoked here in their half-settled state) attributed these rigours to drink or dementia, and often sent out vigilantes to attack the worshippers.
Ontario-based singer-songwriter Kate Maki's new album, On High, is a collection of pastoral country-folk songs that soar with gentle beauty.
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