August 27, 2024
European Artists

The 50 Best Places to Travel in 2024

Well, you knew it was coming. This year, more than 20 Travel + Leisure staffers weighed in to create this hand-picked list of the places that thoughtful, curious travelers should consider in 2024. These are the destinations that have captured our imaginations, the spots where T+L editors want to spend their own time in the

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Berlin’s renters face more misery as housing crisis deepens

BERLIN, Nov 16 (Reuters) – On Berlin’s broad avenues, posters put up by desperate would-be tenants seeking accommodation have become a common sight. Home viewings draw long lines of hopefuls, despite rent rises that have far outstripped salaries in recent years. The German capital, where cheap and abundant apartments were a magnet for artists and

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TikTok and Meta challenge Europe’s new rules that crack down on digital giants – Winnipeg Free Press

LONDON (AP) — TikTok and Facebook owner Meta are filing legal challenges against new European Union rules designed to counter the dominance of digital giants and make online competition fairer by giving consumers more choice. TikTok said in a blog post Thursday that it’s appealing being classified as an online “gatekeeper” by the Digital Markets

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Colorado Arts Spotlight: Things to do around the state Nov. 17-19

This week’s Colorado Arts Spotlight includes film, plenty of music, and even a bit of science. It is that final deep breath before the holiday season, and some events are already beginning. Friday, Nov. 17 The JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center in Denver hosts the third annual ReelAbilities Film Festival Denver, running through Sunday.

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Artist Sydney G. James on Detroit’s mural scene, advocating for opportunities in the arts 

Detroit artist Sydney G. James says she’s been an artist her whole life.  A self-described “Girl Raised in Detroit,” James earned her bachelor’s degree in fine arts at the College for Creative Studies in 2001 before moving to Los Angeles in 2004 to work as a visual artist in TV and filmmaking.  James moved back

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Ai Weiwei London exhibition ‘effectively cancelled’ over Israel social media post

Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei has said his new exhibition at the Lisson Gallery in London has been cancelled after he posted comments on social media referencing the Israel Hamas war. ADVERTISEMENT The Lisson Gallery in London has cancelled their plans to mount an Ai Weiwei show after a social media post by the

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Art Investment

Space Coast Office of Tourism names Bebee as marketing director

Compiled by Wayne T. Price Beebe named marketing director at Space Coast Office of Tourism The Space Coast Office of Tourism recently announced the hiring of Laura Beebe as its marketing director. Beebe comes to the Space Coast from the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau, where she has worked for 10 years as

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Analysis: The art of staying anonymous — a game-changing decision for data anonymisation

Leo Moore and Rachel Hayes William Fry partner Leo Moore and senior associate Rachel Hayes consider a recent European judgment with significance for data anonymisation. A recent decision of the European General Court has shifted the goalposts for data anonymisation. In Single Resolution Board (SRB) v European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) (Case T-557/20), the General

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Cartoons that kill: The art and imagery of genocide | Opinions

Genocide is not an event; you don’t simply wake up one morning and begin exterminating an entire people out of the blue. Genocide is a process; you have to work your way up to it. And like all processes, genocide has its stages – 10 stages in all if we are to refer to the

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12 African Artists Leading a Culture Renaissance Around the World

In one of his famed self-portraits, Omar Victor Diop, a Senegalese photographer and artist, wears a three-piece suit and an extravagant paisley bow tie, preparing to blow a yellow, plastic whistle. The elaborately staged photograph evokes the memory of Frederick Douglass, the one-time fugitive slave who in the 19th century rose to become a leading

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