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Dorothy Berwin, Mark Lee and Tom Kirdahy recently announced the second winners of the Berwin Lee Playwrights Award. The Berwin Lee Award was created to foster and promote the craft of playwriting in both the United States and the United Kingdom and to encourage the writing and production of plays. A reception will be held in their honor in New York City tonight, March 19, 2015.

2015 marks the centennial of the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Asian Art. In the Year of the Ram, which officially began during Lunar New Year in February 2015, the department will present 19 exhibitions and installations organized for a one-year celebration of its formidable holdings of art from across Asia. The department today oversees more than 50 galleries and one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art anywhere in the world.

Dorothy Berwin, Mark Lee and Tom Kirdahy are pleased to announce the second winners of the Berwin Lee Playwrights Award. The Berwin Lee Award was created to foster and promote the craft of playwriting in both the United States and the United Kingdom and to encourage the writing and production of plays.

The March 2015 edition of CUNY TV's ARTS IN THE CITY, hosted by Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson from The Salmagundi Club near Union Square, begins today, March 13 (2015) at 10am, 3pm and 8:30pm on CUNY TV*. The Salmagundi Club, a center for American art since 1871, features a variety of art exhibitions and musical performances each month.

The March 2015 edition of CUNY TV's ARTS IN THE CITY, hosted by Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson from The Salmagundi Club near Union Square, begins Friday, March 13 (2015) at 10am, 3pm and 8:30pm on CUNY TV*. The Salmagundi Club, a center for American art since 1871, features a variety of art exhibitions and musical performances each month.

The Costume Institute's spring 2015 exhibition, China: Through the Looking Glass, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 7 through August 16, 2015 (preceded on May 4 by The Costume Institute Benefit). Presented in the Museum's Chinese Galleries and Anna Wintour Costume Center, the exhibition will explore how China has fueled the fashionable imagination for centuries, resulting in highly creative distortions of cultural realities and mythologies. In this collaboration between The Costume Institute and the Department of Asian Art, high fashion will be juxtaposed with Chinese costumes, paintings, porcelains, and other art, as well as films, to reveal enchanting reflections of Chinese imagery.

Fall/Winter 2015 marks the second season of a year-long support program launched in celebration of the Swarovski Collective's 15 th Anniversary. This season's New York based designers, Prabal Gurung, Rodarte, Creatures of the Wind, Wes Gordon, Misha Nonoo, Tim Coppens will also compete for the inaugural Swarovski Collective Prize for Innovation, with the chance to win 25,000 for their brand.

Broadway veteran Allen Hidalgo brings his Concert to Los Angeles in this One Night Only performance, "Keep Your Inner Child Alive". Tuesday march 24th, 2015 at 8pm at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre in Los Angeles.

Nominations for France's Cesar Awards, the country's equivalent to the Academy Award, were announced today from Paris.

Today, The Metropolitan Museum of Art held a press briefing at the Palace Museum in Beijing, China, about its spring 2015 Costume Institute exhibition, China: Through the Looking Glass. The exhibition, on view at the Met from May 7 to August 16, will explore how Chinese art and film have influenced Western fashion design for centuries. Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum; Shan Jixiang, Director of the Palace Museum; Max Baucus, U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China; Andrew Bolton, Curator in The Costume Institute; Maxwell K. Hearn, Douglas Dillon Chairman, Department of Asian Art; Anna Wintour, Artistic Director of Condé Nast and Editor-in-Chief of American Vogue; and renowned filmmaker Wong Kar Wai, Artistic Director of the exhibition, all attended the press briefing.

Featuring over 600 new books on art, photography, architecture, design, literature and culture from some of the world's most respected publishers, museums and cultural institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,

NEW YORK, Nov. 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ On Friday, December 5th 2014, the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF www.fiaf.org) will present acclaimed French interior designer Jacques Grange with the 2014 Trophee des Arts and Internet entrepreneur Fabrice Grinda with the 2014 Pilier d'Or at The Plaza Hotel in New York City.

Italian fashion designer Giambattista Valli has teamed up with denim favorite 7 For All Mankind to produce a co-branded capsule collection. The collection will be released in two installments with the first one in mid-February, followed up by the second in May.

Be mesmerized as FashionOne takes BWW Fashion readers to Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2015 ready-to-wear collection at Paris Fashion Week.

L'Oréal USA announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Carol's Daughter. Headquartered in New York City, Carol's Daughter is a premier American multi-cultural beauty brand with a pioneering heritage in the natural beauty movement. Created by Lisa Price in 1993, the brand caters to a diverse, rapidly growing market and has established a loyal consumer following across the country.

WWD has reported more details about the identity-theft ring involving five Saks Fifth Avenue employees. Monday morning, the Manhattan District Attorny Cyrus Vance Jr. indicted Tamara Williams, 36; Kriss Rockson, 45; Jason Chance, 25; Alaia Harrison, 20, and Michael Knight-Williams, 44. All but Williams were associates at Saks' flagship Fifth Avenue location and used stolen customer information to purchase over $400,000 worth of designer items between April and August of this year.

Netflix, in association with The Weinstein Company and Endemol, announced that the critically acclaimed, sweeping gangster series 'Peaky Blinders' will launch exclusively on Netflix in the US. All six episodes of season one will debut at 12:01am PT today, September 30, and season two will launch in November.

Actress, supermodel and producer Naomi Campbell will be featured as a recurring guest star on FOX's sexy and powerful new family drama, EMPIRE.

Netflix, in association with The Weinstein Company and Endemol, announced that the critically acclaimed, sweeping gangster series “Peaky Blinders” will launch exclusively on Netflix in the US.

On the occasion of the fifth-year anniversary of the opening of the exhibition Iran Inside Out at the Chelsea Museum in 2009 and on the first anniversary of Iran Modern, which debuted at the Asia Society in 2013, curators Roya Khadjavi Heidari and Massoud Nader announce Portraits: Reflections by Emerging Iranian Artists, a groundbreaking group show which will further shed light on, and explore, Iran's contemporary art scene by showcasing work by over 20 young Iranian artists who were raised, educated, and born there. The exhibition will be on view from today, September 17 to September 22, 2014 at Rogue Space Gallery, located at 508 West 26th Street, New York, New York.