February 8, 2025

European Artists

European Artists

We should stop treating Belgium as the laughing stock of Europe

Belgium’s oldest, it has large sections of the original second century walls, an insightful Gallo-Roman museum and huge antiques market hosted every Sunday where you can go searching for treasure. My love affair with Belgium has been going on for two decades now and each exploration reveals some new quirk or charm, so set aside

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Henri Matisse Leads Capsule’s American and European Art Sale

NEW YORK CITY — On November 2, Capsule presented an auction of American and European art, featuring offerings from well-known artists from the Nineteenth through the Twenty-First Centuries. The works consisted of a diverse array of paintings, drawings and sculptures, as well as one Picasso vase. After a three-day viewing period, the auction closed with

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PS Ph.D. Alum Megan Nicely Publishes Book: Experimental Dance and the Somatics of Language: Thinking in Micromovement

Experimental Dance and the Somatics of Language: Thinking in Micromovement by Megan Nicely Performance Studies Alum, Megan Nicely (M.A. ’05, Ph.D. ’12) is pleased to annouce the publication of Experimental Dance and the Somatics of Language: Thinking in Micromovement (Palgrave).  This book is about dance’s relationship to language. It investigates how dance bodies work with the

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Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall Announce New Imprint Big Loud Texas

Miranda Lambert and Jon Randall have jointly launched a new imprint called Big Loud Texas in partnership with Big Loud Records. Both Grammy winners will be directly involved in signing and developing artists on the roster but Randall will additionally serve as president of A&R for Big Loud Texas. “As a teenager chasing my dreams

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How opium, imperialism boosted Chinese art trade – Harvard Gazette

For years a painting of ships passing each other in a foreign harbor hung largely unnoticed in a since-forgotten Harvard office. The work shows vessels large and small, some with vivid red flags atop their masts, all set against a blue sky. But that picturesque if unremarkable scene actually captures a snapshot of part of

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Online disinformation : UNESCO unveils action plan to regulate social media platforms

UNESCO’s action plan is the result of a consultation process on a scale unprecedented within the United Nations system, with over 10,000 contributions from 134 countries collected over the last eighteen months. Over forty pages, it outlines the principles which must be respected as well as the concrete measures which must be implemented by all

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Christmas Village returns to LOVE Park with extended hours and more    | Philadelphia Parks & Recreation

LOVE Park and City Hall’s courtyard will once again transform into an open air German Christmas market. Christmas Village opens for its 16th season after the Thanksgiving Parade on November 23, 2023. The market is one of the largest and most authentic German Christmas markets in the United States.  A special preview weekend will be

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Historic groundbreaking marks another victory for the Baumholder Military Community | Article

1 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz hosts a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the new Army Lodge for the Baumholder Military Community Nov. 3. From left: Timothy Conley, AECCOM; Roger Vogler, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Gunther Jung, mayor of the City of Baumholder; Command Sgt. Maj.

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3 Black American Dance Artists on Making Work—and Building Lives—in Europe

Imagine leaving home and taking up residence in a foreign land—not as a migrant seeking refuge, but as an expatriate, voluntarily opting to start a new life in a different language and culture. That’s the “What if?” that many American dance artists dare to risk by relocating to Europe. African American dancers are a large

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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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