Museum of Moving Image to fete Cruise
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Tom Cruise will be honored  with a tribute at the Museum of the Moving Image&#39;s 23rd annual  black-tie event in New York.
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Fashion Wire Daily - Someone should really build a fabulous new ocean liner that does a tour of great capitals, as it would be a fittingly sophisticated setting to wear and enjoy the polished, frequently beautiful and thoroughly chic collection presented by Proenza Schouler on Wednesday in New York.
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A massive auction of Star   Trek props, costumes, models and Vulcan tapestry culled direct from   Paramount&#039;s studio vaults was announced Thursday by Christie&#039;s in New   York. Though billed as a 40th anniversary event, the sale, to be held   Oct. 5-7, will feature less of the 40-year-old variety Starfleet stuff,   and more of the Next Generation and beyond variety brands.
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Se habla Espaol. That's what some museums are saying lately. On the first Sunday of every month, Spanish-speaking docents at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, will lead tours of the permanent ...
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The Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, one of the most significant collections of contemporary art in the world, will be presented to the public for the first time at a large-scale special exhibition, opening on 22 September 2004.
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BERLIN, GERMANY.- A visitor walks past a poster announcing the Christian Friedrich Flick Collection at the Hamburger Bahnhof modern art museum in Berlin, Germany.
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There's only one day left to buy tickets to  the networking and awards gala tomorrow, Thursday, March 8 at the Towe  Auto Museum in Old Sacramento.
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Doug Aitkenâs monumental video is being refashioned for the facade of the Miami Art Museumâs new building, which is scheduled to open in 2011.
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An online map pinpointing possible terrorist acts in real time is on its way to a renowned New York City museum as a display of the wedding of technology and human behavior.
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Tourist chiefs keen to tempt  "set-jetters" to Britain launched a campaign on Monday to cash  in on historic locations featured in the new Cate Blanchett  movie "The Golden Age" about Tudor Queen Elizabeth I.
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Tourist chiefs keen to tempt "set-jetters" to Britain launched a campaign on Monday to cash in on historic locations featured in the new Cate Blanchett movie "The Golden Age" about Tudor Queen Elizabeth I.
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When environmental protestors boarded a Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean, images of the action quickly flashed on the world&#39;s TV sets, followed by photos from the Japanese ship after the protestors were taken into custody. Getting these images out is crucial if either side is to win the global PR battle, but doing so can be problematic when you&#39;re at sea, thousands of kilometers from the nearest cell phone network or broadband connection.To solve their problems, both sides take advantage of digital video and photo technology to get the footage, then look to the skies and tap into the global satellite communications network run by London-based Inmarsat. The company specializes in providing voice and data services to maritime vessels and other users at sea, or in remote areas that traditional telecommunications networks don&#39;t reach.On Tuesday, as the protestors approached the Japanese whaling vessel &quot;Yushin Maru 2,&quot; a digital video camera was rolling onboard the small inflatable craft sent from the Sea Shepard Conservation Society&#39;s ship, &quot;Steve Irwin.&quot; The camera caught the moment when two of the conservationists jumped aboard, and within seconds the video was speeding back toward the Steve Irwin on the inflatable.Once back onboard, the video was fed into a Macbook Pro laptop and edited into a 13MB MPEG2 clip that was just 12 seconds long, said Jonny Vasic, a spokesman for the society.&quot;One of our big tools in these whale wars is these video and digital still cameras. They really help us expose the bad guys,&quot; said Vasic.The clip was then sent via satellite to the society&#39;s FTP server and made available to the world&#39;s media.The ship&#39;s satellite communications system is a $35,000 &quot;Sailor Fleet 77&quot; unit that was donated to the society last year by Australia&#39;s Bluetongue Brewery. It supports up to 256Kbps&#160;transmission, although actually getting that speed depends on several factors. In calm seas, a gyro-based mount keeps the antenna pointed at the satellite, but in heavy seas, maintaining a reliable signal can be a problem. Keeping the link gets increasingly difficult as the ship goes further south because the satellite appears very low on the horizon.&quot;It&#39;s about 90 percent reliable,&quot; said Vasic.Crew onboard the &quot;Steve Irwin&quot; are also using the satellite link to attempt to send e-mail to the Japanese ship, in addition to marine-band radio calls, in an attempt to secure the release of their two members, who remain aboard the &quot;Yushin Maru 2.&quot;The Institute of Cetacean Research, the Tokyo-based organization that operates the &quot;Yushin Maru 2,&quot; declined to comment on the technology at its disposal, citing security reasons.&quot;I&#39;m sorry to say, you might be Greenpeace posing as a journalist,&quot; said Gabriel Gomez, a spokesman for the group in Tokyo, when contacted by telephone on Thursday.The systems employed by the Japanese group don&#39;t appear as sophisticated. Only a handful of still images from the ship have been released by the group to the media, and they are a relatively low VGA (640 pixels by 480 pixels) resolution. No video has been made available.The satellite communications technology being employed by the two ships is increasingly being used by media, governmental and relief organizations in remote areas. Earlier this month, Cable News Network (CNN) won a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for its satellite news gathering system based on Inmarsat&#39;s BGAN broadband system. The BGAN system offers a standard IP (Internet Protocol) connection as fast as 492Kbps and is small enough that it can be built into a backpack.
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Travel: Tourists to get bird's eye view of cherry blossom season from airship cruise
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Tom Cruise and Scarlett Johansson are among the stars expected at the 61st Venice Film Festival this week.
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Expect fur to fly at the newest  exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Life & style: In pictures: Iconic images feature in a new retrospective photographic exhibition.
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"Star Trek" memorabilia spanning four decades &#151; including Vulcan jewelry and Starfleet mini-dresses &#151; went on display Wednesday in London in preparation for the first official auction of studio items from the sci-fi phenomenon.