The room is decorated with two busts, of Socrates and Homer, from Pashkov House's final 19th-century iteration as the Rumyantsev Museum, based on the art and rare book collection of Nikolai Rumyantsev, a czarist official.
The second of a three-part storytelling series continues on Saturday at 2 p.m. with Laura Simms presenting a program of international stories that revolve around the theme of water, with examples from India, Africa, Russia and elsewhere; the program will be followed by a scavenger hunt based on the art exhibition "The Value of Water," which features pieces by Jenny Holzer, Kiki Smith and others.
Anyone who goes to the Guggenheim's "1900" show, which is based on the art that was in the Paris Exposition Universelle, will especially want to see the prints and a so-called Chinese toy theater in the Met show that lovingly simulate the fireworks over the Seine when the exposition opened.
Assurance of information is based on the art and science of IT audit, a set of recurring tasks by nature both in time and in space.
The description of the ceremony in the book is partly based on the art of David Ogborne, an eyewitness to the last ceremony in 1751.
The overall look of Treasure Planet was based on the art style promoted by illustrators associated with the Brandywine School of Illustration (such as Howard Pyle and N.C.
The new "Archie" musical continues the vogue for importing entities from unlikely media on to the stage, including current commercial hit "Finding Neverland," based on the art-house films, and "Fun Home," based on a graphic novel.
Shane has forged an unusual collaborative alliance with the Chinese government, artists, investors, and Japan's Genco Inc. and Flamingo Features to produce an epic television series based on The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
Feng Shui is a complex, 3,000-year-old Chinese philosophy based on the art of placement, harmony, balance, and the fundamental principle that cosmic energy (chi) unites all universal matter.
Buffy dreams of when she was in her first year at Sunnydale High; Cordelia's physical appearance is based on the art style of Loeb and Whedon's unproduced Buffy animated series.
