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The Library for the Performing Arts welcomes the archives of New York music icon Tom Verlaine. 🎸Spanning 60 years of creative output, the collection includes handwritten notebooks, unpublished poetry, and rare recordings of the Neon Boys and Television.Tap the link in bio to learn more about Verlaine’s life and work.

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The architect, whose work included the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, died after a brief illness Frank Gehry, one of the most influential and distinctive talents in American architecture, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles following a brief respiratory illness, his chief of staff confirmed. He was 96. Gehry, the most recognizable American architect since Frank Lloyd Wright, was one of the first to embrace the potential of computer design, and pioneered a distinctively exuberant style of bravura power, whimsical and arresting collisions of form. His most famous work remains the Guggenheim Museumin Bilbao, a fantastical, titanium-clad composition on the Nervión River which received international acclaim upon its opening in 1997, heralding a new era of emotive architecture. Continue reading...

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