August 29, 2024
European Art

Alaska Airlines celebrates enhanced partnership with Condor Airlines 

Bilateral codeshare agreement provides a more seamless travel experience for guests  SEATTLE — Alaska Airlines is expanding our partnership with Condor Airlines – one of our global partners since March 2017 – with a bilateral codeshare agreement that enables Alaska and Condor to sell each other’s flights. Last week, Condor began marketing and selling more

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European Art

Ask the Strategist: Best Holiday Gifts 2023

73 items in this article 9 items on sale! Illustration: Pete Gamlen Just before Thanksgiving, we offered our gift-giving expertise to our newsletter subscribers. We asked them to tell us who they were having trouble shopping for, what that person was like, and how much they wanted to spend. Almost 300 people responded, asking for

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Art Investment

Morningstar Investment Management & Envestnet Team Up to Deliver Personalized IRAs

New Managed Accounts Offering Will Enable Asset Management Firms to Offset High Cost of Administering IRA The IRA Accounts and Servicing will be Powered by Leading Fintech Company, IRALOGIX CHICAGO and BERWYN, Pa., Nov. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The retirement groups within Morningstar Investment Management LLC (“Morningstar Retirement”), a subsidiary of investing insights firm Morningstar,

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Artists

Inspirational, armless artist at BAPL today | News

Noah Matthew Howard will present The Artists’ Toolbox at the Bradford Area Public Library at 6 p.m. today. Howard, a local artist and owner of Armless Art LLC, will speak about his life story and the challenges he has faced, highlighting the importance of relying on different tools in his mental and emotional toolbox to

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European Fine art

Putin decides to stay in power until at least 2030, Kremlin sources say

The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has filed an appeal against the decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to suspend its membership. The Russian Olympic Committee was banned with immediate effect on Oct 12 for recognising regional organisations from four territories annexed from Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee said. The IOC added the ROC would

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Artists

Discover the generation of creatives keeping Harlem’s artistic spirit alive in NYC

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). “I come here when I need creative inspiration,” artist Leon Johnson tells me as we emerge from the subway into the beating heart of Harlem. Around us, market stalls sell dangly earrings, incense and African print paper fans. A mosaic depicting the jazz greats who left

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Visual artists

Could Philly’s next mayor help artists live and work here?

This story is a part of the Every Voice, Every Vote series. From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! In his third-floor walk-up office at Mural Arts Philadelphia, Emilio Maldonado has been compiling a spreadsheet of professional opportunities for artists

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European Artists

The Kingpin Who Kidnapped Migrants for Ransom

Girma’s story is not unusual: many people who were held captive by Kidane never crossed the sea. Although Estefanos estimates that Kidane did put some fifteen thousand migrants on boats, the financial core of his business seems to have been kidnapping and extortion, not smuggling. Cartoon by Jorge Penné It’s difficult to know exactly how

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European Art

How to see the best Christmas light displays around the UK

Admission: from £22.50 (adult), £15 (ages 4–15), £69 (family) Dates: November 15-January 7 2024 Stay here: Consider the nearby Coach & Horses, where rooms start from £124 per night. Christmas at the Botanics, Edinburgh  Like Kew, Edinburgh’s historic botanical gardens also have a well-established Christmas light trail. This year, the 90-minute walk is illuminated by

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European Art

What makes a masterpiece? It depends who is selling…

There has been plenty of talk that the trade for pre-21st century art has now become a “masterpiece” market. The super-wealthy have become so rich that they only want to buy the best of the best by the biggest legacy names. Further down the price scale, if business for lesser works by long-established or long-dead

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