August 11, 2024
European Fine art

Here’s what you need to know for the 2023 Door County Christkindlmarkt

SISTER BAY – When an event has been as successful as the Door County Christkindlmarkt was in its first two years, you don’t mess with it too much the third time around. The Door County Christkindlmarkt sponsored by the Sister Bay Historical Society opens over the Thanksgiving weekend and continues the first two weekends in

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One-Third of US Newspapers As of 2005 Will Be Gone By 2024

Sara Fischer reports via Axios: The decline of local newspapers accelerated so rapidly in 2023 that analysts now believe the U.S. will have lost one-third of the newspapers it had as of 2005 by the end of next year — rather than in 2025, as originally predicted. There are roughly 6,000 newspapers left in America,

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Mick O’Dea: Divided Loyalties | Exhibitions

Divided Loyalties by Mick O’Dea PPRHA reflects the artist’s strong interest in the Decade of Centenaries period and this exhibition showcases a number of his works from this period as part of Clare County Council’s Decade of Centenaries programme. Mick O’Dea was born in Ennis, Co Clare in 1958.  He studied at the National College

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Prison Phone Company Leaked 600,000 Users’ Data and Didn’t Notify Them

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Prison phone company Global Tel*Link leaked the personal information of nearly 650,000 users and failed to notify most of the users that their personal data was exposed, the Federal Trade Commission said today. The company agreed to a settlement that requires it to change its security

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HOLD ME CLOSER – Marta Niedbał | Paweł Olszczyński

Paweł Olszczyński, “Comets”, 2023, oil on canvas, 90×60 cm, photo by Szymon Sokołowski The exhibition Hold Me Closer is a sensual journey through the body and its need to absorb experience and heal wounds. We get hurt when we function in a numbed world dominated by competition. All too often this world has no room

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“Chinese Matisse” Sanyu’s portrait of Kiki de Montparnasse to make auction debut in Hong Kong | Auctions News | THE VALUE

The symbol of bohemian Paris during the “annees folles”, Alice Prin, more popular known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was an icon in the 1920s Montparnasse social scene. Passionate and sometimes intense, the dazzling muse held everyone in the Parisian art circles spellbound: nearly all celebrated male artists of the time have left behind trademark paintings featuring the charming and

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Progressive Artists’ Grp: Souza, Bakre, Raza… City To Be Treated To Artwork By Progressive Artists’ Grp | Mumbai News

Mumbai: The face is long, cheekbones high and eyes bulbous. With thin lips pursed together as if in displeasure, the man gazes stonily at you. ‘Head of a Man’—a 1961 painting by the legendary iconoclast cum ‘enfant terrible of modern Indian art’ F N Souza— will soon turn the spotlight back on the rebellion that

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Taj Matumbi, Steven Feren reception – Isthmus

media release: Arts + Literature Laboratory presents “Thrown,” an exhibition by Bridge Work Madison participant Taj Matumbi; and an exhibit by Elizabeth Sheeler, from Tuesday, November 28, 2023 through Friday, December 22, 2023. A reception for our Bridge Work Madison exhibitions, and for “Foto Esculturas,” an exhibition by Steven Feren, will take place on Saturday, December

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Starting Here, Starting Now

Good afternoon, this is W42ST Lifestyle Editor Sarah Beling with “Make Way For The Weekend” — your curated guide to the best of New York events in one convenient newsletter! If you ever need a reminder of why exactly you came here in the first place, I recommend revisiting someone else’s first memories of New

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The EU Will Finally Free Windows Users From Bing

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Microsoft will soon let Windows 11 users in the European Economic Area (EEA) disable its Bing web search, remove Microsoft Edge, and even add custom web search providers — including Google if it’s willing to build one — into its Windows Search interface. All of these

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