The artwork, by US sculptor Charles Ray, will be replaced by a lamp-post at the tip of the Punta della Dogana.
The project not only reunited Washington and Foxx, who appeared together in the Ray Charles bio-pic "Ray, " but it also gave the actress an opportunity to delve into a role that she said was challenging artistically and emotionally taxing.
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"At the time it was all Charles and Ray Eames, and Scandinavian furniture, " she says.
Playing on the upper floor is a 1972 promotional film on the SX-70 by Charles and Ray Eames.
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Period touches range from 1950s-style lighting fixtures to custom cabinets replicating the colorful look of Charles and Ray Eames's cabinetry.
It also offers reissues of modern classics gleaned from the company's archive of esteemed designers like Charles and Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi and George Nelson.
But I got a strong dose of Ray Charles from my older brother when I was coming up.
"Perry Como wasn't that different to me than Paul Simon or Ray Charles, " she tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer.
And it also has a little Liberace, a little Beethoven, a little Ray Charles.
The terrific soundtrack features music by Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, and Ray Charles.
Taylor Hackford's efforts to bring Ray Charles's story to the screen span 15 years.
Music master Ray Charles returned the favor and took on one of Lennon's biggest hits.
His favourite artists are Tintoretto, John Bellany, Erich Heckel, Picasso and Michael Ray Charles.
There were few dry eyes during Willie Nelson's rendition of Ray Charles' signature hit, Georgia On My Mind.
And Ray Charles can do something with a note, just one: there's so much pain and love and sexuality.
When Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin began singing popular music, they brought melisma to more mainstream audiences.
He was teased by the late star's long-time manager, Joe Adams, about always losing chess games to Ray Charles.
He won 14 Grammy awards and worked with stars such as Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Elton John and Paul McCartney.
Notwithstanding Leonardo DiCaprio's spirited rendering of Howard Hughes, Jamie Foxx seems certain to snap up the award for his performance as Ray Charles.
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Apart from the Simpson masterpiece, Louisiana recently has hosted the filming of Oscar-winning biopic Ray (about Ray Charles) and the thriller Skeleton Key.
In his six decades in the music and entertainment industry, Jones has worked with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson among many others.
In his emotional, gospelized jazz, Benevento pays tribute to his musical inspirations: Horace Silver, James Booker and Ray Charles among them.
Ray Charles first discovered his gift for music when, at the age of three, his next-door neighbor taught him how to play the piano.
Some cowboy booted Oakey Swing Bands and a young Ray Charles - still doing his best Charles Brown cocktail jazz impersonation - recorded it.
The producer Phil Ramone, who's helped make records for Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, and Paul Simon, worked with Lynne on Just a Little Lovin'.
Charley Pride is by far the most visible, but other artists have dabbled in country as well -- the Supremes, for instance, and Ray Charles.
Jamie Foxx won an Academy Award for his portrayal of musician Ray Charles, and then went on to release the chart-topping Intuition, his third album.
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