If youāve ever wanted to visit Leonardo da Vinciās workshop, guide a gondola through Veniceās canals or climb the towers of San Gimignano, "Assassinās Creed II" is the game for you. Once again, you take the role of Desmond Miles, the descendant of Assassins, who are locked in a centuries-long struggle with the Templars, who are bent on world domination. In the original game, the Templars hooked Desmond up to a futuristic gadget known as the Animus and forced him to relive the deeds of a Crusade-era ancestor via "genetic memories. The biggest change is the addition of a wider selection of weaponry ā” including maces that can deliver a very satisfying whack to an enemyās skull. In addition to the primary missions, you can spend quite a bit of time pursuing side quests, such as beating up errant husbands, delivering messages or searching for treasure or tombs of earlier assassins or pages from a mysterious codex.
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In conjunction with the Wellcome Trust, the Mori has put together an impressive and wide-ranging exhibit, featuring 150 medical artifacts from the Wellcome Collection and 30-some works of art, from ancient Japanese to contemporary. The idea behind the exhibit is to reconcile the cold, clinical and foreign nature of the human body–with which we are often confronted when things suddenly go awry–with the body’s warm and inherently beautiful aesthetic that is celebrated both in art and in love. Presenting “an integrated vision of medicine and the arts, science and beauty” sounds a bit grandiose but with the art on view, the Mori may do just that. Special highlights include three anatomical sketches by da Vinci from the Royal Collection, a pencil drawing of the DNA double helix by Francis Crick (1953), the sculpture I Drive My Own Brains II by Jan Fabre (2008), Damien Hirst’s painting Surgical Procedure , and an installation by Gilles Barbier entitled The Nursing Home . I was wondering if Salvador Dali’s metamorphosis of Narcissus, really tells the story of the creation of self-consciousness. And Salvador Dali was being both strangely prophetic with regard to the discovery of the connection between face recognition parts of the brain and the Amygdala.
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It is a truly historical moment as this is the first time ever that the “Angel in the Flesh” (formerly in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle) will be shown on the West coast before it returns to Europe. Under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy and organized in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles, Leonardo da Vinci and Bill Viola’s exhibition concludes the 9th Italian Language Week dedicated to Arts, Science and Technology. Drawn with black chalk on rough, blue paper, like many of Leonardo’s late anatomy studies in Windsor, the “Angel in the Flesh” is a masterpiece which was the object of scrupulous studies and interpretations by major art historians, psychologists and psychoanalysts. On the occasion of this evening, both Pedretti and Viola will receive from the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Francesca Valente and the Consul General of Italy, Nicola Faganello, the IIC Lifetime Achievement Award for their outstanding lifelong activity and dedication to art. Author of fifty books, including the edition of the monumental corpus of the Leonardo drawings in the Queen’s Collection at Windsor Castle, and more than 700 articles and essays, he is still much active as a scholar and also as a regular contributor to the major Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera” and to the Vatican “L’Osservatore Romano. With his wife Rossana he has established The Pedretti Foundation for the promotion of Leonardo scholarship in the world with its headquarters at their Villa di Castel Vitoni overlooking Vinci in the heart of Tuscany.
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NEW YORK – An interactive exhibit featuring life-size models of Leonardo da Vinci’s 500-year-old inventions and machines is opening in New York City’s Times Square. Although best known for painting the masterpiece "Mona Lisa," da Vinci also designed a fantastical array of futuristic flying machines, robots, weapons and mechanical devices. Highlights of the exhibit opening Friday include the "Great Kite" flying machine, a working prototype of his "Self-Propelled Cart, and physical models of his mechanical bat and lion. Visitors also can use touch screens to turn the artist’s sketches into three-dimensional models. RSS » More news feeds | What are news feeds?
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