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In all weather, smiling staff members were outside greeting kids, who poured off buses and cheerfully shouted things at me like âYour dog is so cute!â A school like that is a source of pride for anyone who lives near it.
The Presidential Campaign, After Philadelphia
Her suggestion that voters pay attention to his rallies, and note how many attendees left early âout of exhaustion and boredom,â prompted the Republican to inveigh against the nonexistent pet-eating migrants; and a well-timed reminder that Trump had inherited a large fortune, during an exchange about Harrisâs recent move to the center, distracted him from what otherwise might have been an effective attack on her flip-flopping.
Londonâs Courtauld Institute gets down to business with new art market-focused degree
âSo there will be the classic seminar teaching with tutors as well as meeting a range of experts from the art world.â He added that on graduation, students will also be given mentors to provide ongoing professional support.
Brutalism meets art in SĂŁo Paulo pop-up exhibitions
âDue to a relationship with the material, or the entrance of light, or a type of perspective, you already saw that work placed in that spot.â The pergola in the Silveira house, for instance, immediately struck the curators as the perfect site for pieces by Artur Lescher and Anish Kapoor.
Co-owner of right-wing broadcaster GB News buys UK art magazine Apollo
âOQS Media, which is owned by British entrepreneur and philanthropist Sir Paul Marshall, will prioritise investing in journalism, talent and the latest technology, with the aim of building a strong future for The Spectator and supporting it to reach new audiences,â the statement adds.
‘We want to lift those who take the risk for us all’: Rosana Paulino receives new Munch prize celebrating artistic freedom
Her practice, which spans drawing, embroidery, engraving, printmaking, collage, sculpture and installation, deconstructs the production and dissemination of racist theories that served as justification for European colonialism and the slave trade.
Two publications show how in Caspar David Friedrich’s world mankind is puny against natureâs power and glory
While field, meadow and trees seem to descend towards the viewer, that left-to-right diagonal is powerfully offset, in the paintingâs upper half, by the sheer weight of the evening sky, a mass of lavender-tinged clouds parting to reveal horizontal bands of yellowish-orange produced by the setting sun, a fading glimpse of a world beyond.
Long-planned Las Vegas art museum given plot of land downtown
The idea for a standalone fine art museum in Las Vegas has been in the making for several decades, but previous schemes never fully materialised.
âShrekâ v. Perry the Donkey
Several minutes later, after a detour through the diamond district to pick up some stamps, she was back inside the lobby, standing before a gold letter box affixed to the wall.
An art-world wish list for the next US president
Generally private enterprise supports art by buying paintings, putting murals in lobbies and commercial projects involving artists.â
Rijksmuseum acquires controversial early botanic book on Suriname
Maria Sibylla Merianâs 1705 Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium is considered a âhigh pointâ of early printing, portraying exotic insects at a time when Western Europeans were keen to explore, name and understand the world.
New London Museum gets ÂŁ50m cash boost in face of rising costs
Described as âone of Europe's largest cultural infrastructure projectsâ, the new complex is designed by Stanton Williams and Asif Khan in partnership with the conservation architects Julian Harrap.
The Temporary License of Literary Bratdom
âMy First Bookâ is a rainbow grenade of based waifus and raw-milk-chugging looksmaxxers, of parables about cancellation, of seemingly unedited reflections on status, social media, and how âreality is what we make it.â âMood Swings,â by Barnet, features animal uprisings and venture capitalists investing in time travel.
From âSoho scammerâ to television dancer: Anna Sorokin will compete on Dancing with the Stars
Sorokin has parlayed her notoriety into various ventures beyond the Netflix seriesâfor which she was paid $320,000, though she was not allowed to keep the money due to a law in New York preventing criminals from cashing in on their infamy.
Out of the Sky
The remarkable rise of Elon Muskâs SpaceX, and Russiaâs increasing isolation on the world stage, is likely to alter this arrangement soon, but a U.S. astronaut, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, launched off from Baikonur as recently as this past March.
How Natural Are We?
Then, one evening after dinner, my six-year-old son and I biked to the marina to use his remote-control boatâa green plastic vessel about a foot long, with a tiny black propeller, which heâd got for his birthday.
Surreal Watteau painting owned by Britain’s first prime minister gets export bar
The work features in A Catalogue of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpoleâs Collection of Pictures, where it is described as: ââWatteauâA dream of Watteauâs, Himself asleep by a rock; Several Dancers & Grotesque figures in the Cloudsâ.â