August 16, 2024
European Art

D.C.’s Pioneering Bolivian Bar to Shut Down in December

Less than a year after it opened as a permanent bar in Adams Morgan, Bolivian cocktail lounge Casa Kantuta is closing its doors. Sibling co-owners Carla and Juan Sanchez, along with Bolivian-Venezuelan beverage director Luis Aliaga, set up their festive, impassioned cocktail lair in the basement of vegan Eastern European restaurant and skate shop Spacycloud

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European Fine art

Can Kazakhstan Keep Russia, China, and the West Happy?

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan is redefining the Great Game as an opportunistic obstacle course, testing his own survival skills to future-proof his country against joining Ukraine as a victim of Russia’s irredentist urges. As leader of the biggest and richest of the independent states in Russia’s Central Asian orbit, Tokayev has elevated pragmatic neutrality

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European Artists

Deezer reveals bold new brand identity and logo

Everyone’s invited to “Live the music” as Deezer embraces shared experiences and a new brand identity with a purple heart at its core. PARIS, Nov. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ —  Deezer (Paris Euronext: DEEZR) is reinventing itself as an experience services platform, with expression and connection as guiding principles to help artists, fans and partners to

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Visual artists

Omaha theater director, visual artist Roxanne Wach, 58, dies

By age 4, Roxanne Wach knew how to read. And she used her new talent to study theater audition notices in the newspaper, said her husband, Dan Wach. She begged her mom to take her to tryouts, but Mom didn’t like social situations. “A family friend finally said, ‘If you don’t get this girl to

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Art Investment

ART adds head of investment resilience and planning

Australian Retirement Trust (ART) has appointed Jody Fitzgerald to the recently created role of head of investment resilience and planning. Ms Fitzgerald will join the super fund in late January 2024 from Morningstar Investment Management, where she serves as head of institutional portfolio management and solutions. With more than 20 years of experience, Ms Fitzgerald

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Art Investment

New Littleborough Community Fire Station opens its doors following major GMFRS investment

Littleborough Community Fire Station reopens following £1.3m refurbishment and extension Improvements are part of £38m investment programme across Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service estate Mayor, Chief Fire Officer, local representatives and school pupils attend reopening           The £1.3m upgrades to the station include an increase in accommodation for staff members,

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European Art

EHRC – McCormack flies to Historic Acropolis Rally victory

Martin McCormack and co-driver Barney Mitchell complete a dominant victory on the Historic Rally Acropolis in their Ford Escort Mk2 RS1800 Valter Pierangioli (Ford Sierra Cosworth 4×4) and Ernie Graham (Ford Escort Mk2 RS1800) complete the podium Category champions gather in Athens for a gala awards night and celebration to close the 2023 EHRC season

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Artists

why artists’ books from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia deserve a closer look

Artists from Henri Matisse to Dieter Roth have relished conceiving and creating their own books, allowing them to meld techniques and styles across a variety of disciplines. An exhibition at the British Museum, Artists Making Books: Poetry to Politics (until 18 February 2024), and an accompanying publication shift the focus however to an extensive collection

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European Art

Air Products to build largest blue hydrogen plant in Europe

Listen to this article Allentown-based Air Products announced Monday that it will build, own and operate a state-of-the-art carbon capture and carbon dioxide treatment facility at its existing hydrogen production plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This will be the largest blue hydrogen plant in Europe once operational. According to a release, the facility is expected

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European Art

Laurinda Weisse preserving history, unlocking stories as UNK archivist – UNK News

Post Views: 70 VIEW THE 2023 NEW FRONTIERS MAGAZINE FEATURING WEISSE AND OTHER UNK FACULTY By KIM HACHIYAFor UNK Communications KEARNEY – Families, organizations and universities value their history and stories. It’s why genealogy classes and websites flourish. Why “decluttering and rehoming your stuff” websites also flourish. But for archivists, “boxes of stuff” can

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