The China National Silk Museum, the country’s largest silk history study institution, holds events every year to highlight the Silk Road’s cultural heritage. The Silk Road Week celebration is now coming to an end with an exhibition in Hungary. About 70 copies of ancient silk fabrics and contemporary garments from the museum are on display
5 hours ago Image source, Scarborough Museums and Galleries Image caption, The painting is believed to have been specially commissioned the year the Grand Hotel in Scarborough opened An appeal has been made to help reveal the identity of a Victorian artist who painted Scarborough’s landmark Grand Hotel over 150 years ago. The picture has
Coco Chanel was said to have owned anything from 21 to 32 Chinese Coromandel screens in her lifetime. She moved them from home to home, using them as decoration as well as inspiration. With figures and flowers, hunting scenes and Chinese dignitaries moving across their lacquered surfaces, Chanel talked of the stories depicted in their
Welcomed new CEO Jacob Thaysen, Ph.D., who started with Illumina on September 25, 2023 With respect to GRAIL, continue to proceed quickly: retained advisors and preparing for sale and capital markets transaction options for GRAIL, including filing a Form 10, in accordance with the European Commission’s divestiture order; a Board special committee has been established
Josep Maria Miró. (Photo by Federico Metral) Josep Maria Miró, one of Catalonia’s most esteemed dramatists, is in the midst of a three-week playwriting residency in New York City with The Play Company (PlayCo), in partnership with Institut Ramon Llull and Sala Beckett in Barcelona. As part of his residency, he will have a Nov.
Czechia has a deserved reputation for its excellent beer—pilsner to be exact—which flows all around the city, from the pedal-powered beer buses that pass you in the street to the spas where you can sit in tubs of the stuff, glass at hand. But rather than seeing beer merely as something to be swilled, it’s
Amazon’s second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, features a 2.5-acre park that’s open to the public. Metropolitan Park offers serene walking paths, unique public art installations, a dog park, a children’s play area, and an active central green, all nestled inside a horticultural masterpiece partially inspired by the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. The
GREAT FALLS — This list of events is updated regularly – new events are added as we receive them, and events are removed after they occur. Click here to submit your event. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9: The Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center (4201 Giant Springs Road) will host “Retracing the Steps of Lewis and Clark” from
“Such advances will help untap the huge cultural reservoir of knowledge preserved in the spectacular cavescapes across the Caribbean.” Art depicting human figures, animals, and even boats adorns the caves of Puerto Rico. Now, new research has indicated that some of these drawings were made as long ago as 700 BCE—thousands of years before the
Jennifer Wundrow Interior Design Designer Jennifer Wundrow founded her eponymous firm in 2008, and since then, she’s completed high-profile projects across the country, from New York to Sonoma. The San Rafael, California–based firm creates collected spaces that reflect their owners and their personal styles, whether it leans traditional, contemporary, or modern farmhouse. Wundrow and her