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A quick reminder that we're giving away a pair of passes, valued at 30 bucks, to the El Greco to Velazquez exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art. Just send an email explaining why you should receive them, in 50 words or less, to ShootingTheBull AT gmail DOT com by noon on Friday for your chance to win. Entries from duke.edu addresses are not eligible. (You get discounted passes anyway.)

Kevin Davis and I will choose the winning entry in time for Sunday's edition of Shooting the Bull.

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Win passes to "El Greco to Velazquez" at the Nasher

If you tuned into "Shooting the Bull" this past Sunday for our interview with Sarah Schrof, you heard mention of a contest to give away a couple of passes to the El Greco exhibit of 16th century Spanish art opening this week at the Nasher Museum. Here's the details.

Here's your opportunity to win two free passes to the upcoming exhibit "From El Greco to Velazquez" opening Thursday at the Nasher Museum of Art. Send an email to ShootingTheBull AT gmail DOT com explaining, in 50 words or less, why you need these free passes. Kevin Davis and Barry Ragin, the hosts of Shooting the Bull, will choose the winning entry on the basis of creativity, originality, and overall Durhamness. Duke University* employees and students are not eligible (you all get discounted admission anyway) nor are Kevin and Barry's immediate family members. Emails must be time stamped no later than noon on Friday, August 22, 2008. We will contact the winner at the email address you've entered from and provide details on how to claim you prize. We reserve the right to publish any entries as we see fit, but we guarantee that your email addresses will not be used in any form whatsoever. Good luck!

More info about the exhibit is available at the Nasher website. These tickets are valued at $15.00 each for people who aren't museum members. If you are a museum member, you can get free tickets on your own, so why not let someone else have a chance?
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*Entries submitted from a duke.edu address will be automatically excluded from winning.

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Visual aids

Today's New York Times has a feature on the recent renovations to the classical galleries at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. It's very Timesian, balancing genuine praise for the work the museum has done bringing its Roman and Greek collections into new prominence with subtle and acerbic putdowns of previous gallery arrangements, as well as the philosphical underpinnings of the movement to restore plundered treasures to their native lands.

And, like all good New York Times web presentations, it's chock full of chewy sidebars, slideshows, and multimedia presentations to help you navigate your way around the subject matter, and focus your attention on the central, important elements under discussion.

Like this one:

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