August 9, 2024
European Artists

UPS to boost global trade with enhanced operations at new hub at Hong Kong International Airport

Hong Kong  – Global logistics service provider UPS (NYSE: UPS) and the Hong Kong Airport Authority have entered into an agreement that improves UPS service to customers and enhances the company’s operations in Asia with a new hub at the Hong Kong International Airport and near the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. The new hub will serve as

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What’s next in AI? Enhancing safety, more regulatory oversight and leveraging AI for education

One year ago, OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT created a sensation across the globe over its ability to generate everything from essays to e-mails and poems in a matter of seconds. Since then, the focus has turned more broadly to generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can produce text, images, videos and even computer code based on

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The Professor is a shadowy tale of art theft and the Italian underworld — podcast review

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The new podcast The Professor opens with a dawn raid. In 2018, officers from the British police and the Italian Carabinieri entered the London home of William Veres, an Anglo-Hungarian art dealer whom they believed to

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Europe’s far right flexes anti-Brussels muscles as it opens EU campaign – POLITICO

FLORENCE, Italy — Europe’s right-wing leaders fired the opening salvo of their promised EU-wide election campaign at a rally of the hardline Identity and Democracy (ID) group in Florence on Sunday. Following the surprise win of anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders in November general elections in the Netherlands, the ID’s Euroskeptic firebrands vowed to change the

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An insider’s guide to Lucca, Italy’s lesser-known fairytale city

Website: gigliolalucca.com Magellano Located within the historic walls of Lucca, Magellano is your go-to for a classic Negroni. Inside this red-brick building, sit back and relax on the distressed, brown leather Chesterfield or take your pick of one of the upholstered antique chairs and sip on your favourite cocktail – there is a separate cocktail

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Michael Stipe Is Writing His Next Act. Slowly.

Smith was recounting the story over dinner with Stipe one night in September. They were at a restaurant in Covington, Ky., just across the river from Cincinnati, where Smith had a gig the following night. Stipe had accompanied her from New York. It was Fred Smith’s birthday — he would have been 75 — and

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This London hotel’s fussiness veering towards pretension was not for me

That fabled Parisian den of opulence and hive of hip, Costes, has landed in London. What will we make of this haven for the haute monde, just across from Peter Jones, that bastion of sensible Britishness and the very reverse of chic?  It was back in 2015 that Cadogan Estates announced a partnership with legendary

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Wartime Berlin, a ‘crazy castle’ in Ireland and visits from Maud Gonne – The Irish Times

Towards the end of his beautiful meditation on the long, still robust life of his grandmother Imogen Stuart, Emile Dinneen ventures to ask her: “So, do you ever think about the meaning of life?” She is sitting in her studio, sculptor’s smock on. Outside, it is one of those indolent summery days. “The meaning of

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Meduza, OneRepublic and Kim Petras announced as UEFA EURO 2024’s official music artists | UEFA EURO 2024

Italian producers Meduza, American pop-rock trailblazers OneRepublic and German pop icon Kim Petras will unite to create the official UEFA EURO 2024 song, it has been announced at the final draw in Hamburg. The tournament’s official music artists, OneRepublic, Meduza, and Kim Petras will unveil the anticipated track in spring 2024; it is set to

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New Raclin Murphy Museum of Art Opens at University of Notre Dame

Plensa (Spanish, b. 1955), “Endless,” 2023. Courtesy of Raclin Murphy Museum of Art. Courtesy of Raclin Murphy Museum of Art. A new era for one of the world’s most storied college campuses began on December 1, 2023, when the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art opened at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN.

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