When handheld ebook readers first came out, people wondered how they could ever hope to replace actual books, newspapers and magazines which are easier to read, caused less strain on the eyes, and were simply cheaper than any battery-powered device. Today, ebooks are becoming the preferred medium of choice for many, and libraries are beginning [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News, education on July 7th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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When it comes to cinema, some of the finest examples of enduring classics can be found in the silent film genre – an era that dates before 1929. Sadly, many examples of this art form have already disappeared. “Only about 20 percent of the films produced in America during the silent era – that is, [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on June 17th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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As in many other countries, football is one of the most popular sports in South Africa. The nation’s passion for this sport is relentlessly on the rise now that the 2010 FIFA World Cup has just kicked off in South Africa, for the first time on the African continent. However, the month-long, $1.7 billion event [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on June 15th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Praised as the Greatest American Humorist of his age, as well as the Father of American Literature, Samuel Langhorne Clemens was a popular American novelist, best known by his pen name, Mark Twain. Clemens was a friend to various artists, presidents and European royalty. And now, Clemens’ memoirs are finally being published.
Towards the end of [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on June 4th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Hugues de Montalembert is a painter. He is also blind.
Montalembert was born in Normandy, into an affluent family that expected him to follow tradition and become a banker or join the military. But young Hugues had other ideas and decided to leave home and live abroad, making documentaries and occasionally selling his paintings. He trudged [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on May 25th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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The rare contemporary art collection of recently deceased author, Michael Crichton, was auctioned off last week at 20 Rockefeller Plaza by Christie’s Auction in New York. The collection included more than 90 works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Pablo Picasso and Roy Lichtenstein.
Doctor and author Michael Crichton is best known for his fictional novels, many [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on May 18th, 2010 @ 11:00 am
This is what author and founder of Maggie’s cancer centers suggests in his freshly published book, Architecture of Hope. Categorized as an architectural book, the idea of architecture for health dawned upon Charles Jencks when his now-deceased wife, Maggie, was diagnosed with metastasized breast cancer. Dismayed at the environment that she had to spend much [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Healthcare, News on May 14th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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A quintessential image of the Blue Period of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, 1903 (also known as The Absinthe Drinker) is a study of Picasso’s close friend and flat mate in a smoky bar holding a pipe over a glass of absinthe. The masterpiece is said to be one of the [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on April 30th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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ArtCulture, an online magazine dedicated to providing news and perspectives on contemporary art and international design, has recently announced that they will soon be featuring a new iPad Art Gallery.
Just days after the iPad was released by Apple, ArtCulture.com featured an art app showcase that included 15 art related applications for drawing and creating iPhone [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on April 21st, 2010 @ 6:44 pm
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International furniture retail giant Ikea is set to commission multi-million pound contemporary artworks for public viewing as part of a Moscow-based development due to open in 2012. The development in Moscow will be only the first of many mixed-use spaces across Ikea sites, beginning with Russia. Major contemporary artists such as Piotr Uklanski, Jeppe Hein [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on April 7th, 2010 @ 7:07 am
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.