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Last year, the travel industry plummeted as the world struggled with the onset of a global pandemic, one that battered the economy and prompted uncertainty for businesses reliant on tourism dollars.  But with state parks, zoos, museums and other venues modifying COVID-19 safety restrictions and Gov. Mike DeWine announcing the ending of state health orders on June 2, theres a rising sense of optimism for national and state travel. Based on research fielded by Longwoods International�...

The Times names 5 of the best beaches you can visit within an hour or two of Surrey The Times has released a list of 40 best beaches in the UK Camber Sands beach near Rye in East Sussex (Image: Jake Eastham) Get the latest email updates for Surrey with our FREE daily newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe here When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPriva...

Events When 9:00am - 5:00pm 73 Jefferson StreetWintersetIA50273 Please join us for the 52nd Annual Madison County Covered Bridge Festival, a yearly celebration of Madison County’s history, heritage and covered bridges, around the Winterset Courthouse Square. The festival features old-time craft demonstrations, a wide variety of festival food and arts & craft vendors, live music, children’s activities, an antique car show, a quilt show, a parade, and much more! In addition to celebrating our...

Fantastic Mr. Fox. Some of his other movies include Batman & Robin, The Peacemaker, The Thin Red Line, Out of Sight, Three Kings, The Perfect Storm, O Brother Where Art Thou, Ocean’s Eleven, Spy Kids, Solaris, Intolerable Cruelty, Ocean’s Twelve, and Syriana. Plus, The Good German, Michael Clayton, Ocean’s Thirteen, Burn After Reading, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Up in the Air, The Descendants, Gravity, and Tomorrowland. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Good Night, and Good Luck, Leat...

How a Devious Handshake Deal Let Arthur Sackler Store His Artworks in a Secret Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Years Patrick Radden Keefes Empire of Pain includes some strange details about the Sackler familys art collecting past. April 30, 2021 People visit the Sackler Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 28, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) When Arthur Sackler died in 1987, his obituary in the New York Times noted that he owned one of the...

A view of Amsterdam at midday. A dark forest with sunlight peeking through the trees as a woman washes clothes in a river. A young boy feeding a monkey as a man to his left holds back a swan. These are scenes from three paintings owned by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, part of a batch of 10 European artworks obtained between 1933 and 1945 that FAMSF is now reviewing for their possible connection to Nazi-looted art. The city’s largest arts institution, which oversees the de Young Museu...

Prized works looted by Nazis during WWII at center of new Cincinnati Art Museum exhibit Share Updated: 10:08 AM EDT Apr 27, 2021 WLWT Digital Staff Provided by Cincinnati Art Museum Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, accompanied by Gen. Omar N. Bradley, left, CG, 12th Army Group, and Lt. George S. Patton, Jr., CG, US Third Army, inspects art treasures stolen by Germans and hidden in a salt mine in Germany. SO...

1:01 "Curator Peter Jonathon Bell worked with museums in Berlin and across the country in order to bring this together," says Jill Dunne, director of marketing and communications. Bells book of the same name is the basis for the exhibition. "They tell the story of this historical moment when World War II was happening and the Nazis were involved in attempting to loot artworks, and talking about specific artwork that toured America in the 1940s and became the first blockbuster art exhibition tha...

tells the story of how and why some of the world’s most iconic European paintings left Germany immediately after World War II and toured the United States in what became the first blockbuster art exhibition of our time. Walter Farmer, Cincinnati’s own “Monuments Man,” played a central role in this pivotal episode in the history of art and war. The exhibition can only be seen at the Cincinnati Art Museum from July 9–Oct. 3, 2021. During the final years of World War II, A...

Ben Affleck films The Tender Bar for director George Clooney Paul Chavez For Dailymail.com Ben Affleck and George Clooney were spotted Monday filming The Tender Bar in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The 48-year-old actor wore retro bowling attire as he was seen leaving a bowling alley. Ben was costumed in a striped shirt, flared denim blue jeans and bowling shoes. George, 59, was busy at work behind the camera directing the production and also helped arrange the vintage vehicles in f...