He sees this period as a turning point in the work of each artist and in the history of art, and he chronicles every day, sometimes every hour, of their life together.
The Budapest-based European Roma Cultural Foundation described Stojka as an "outstanding Austrian Romani woman... and a key figure for the history, art and literature of Romani culture in Europe", reported Reuters news agency.
's the Teaching Company, which sells loads of prerecorded lectures on meaty topics, such as the history of the Vikings and The Art of Critical Decision Making, delivered by scholars from the snootiest of ivory towers.
But it is the strategy of this turnaround that highlights the crucial difference between those who advocate for old buildings on the basis of art and history and those who deal in them as commercial commodities.
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The latest instalment in this series concerns the archaeology, history, art and architecture of the province of Ghazni which we sincerely hope contributes to greater knowledge and understanding of the historic city of Ghazni and also sparks new interest among the Afghan youth to help safeguard heritage under threat from looting and destruction.
The sheer amount of things to see is staggering, and like any big city art or natural history museum, the vast majority of the artifacts and memorabilia are in storage, not on display, enabling them to be rotated with enough frequency so that every time you visit it is new again.
Their training is long and bookish: degrees in law and art history, and then an apprenticeship of three years.
So think of a highly-qualified software engineer (the vertical part of the T) who can talk knowledgeably about higher education and art history (the horizontal part of the T).
This former hospice for pilgrims and, until relatively recently, a working hospital, contains almost a millennium of history, religious art and ruins.
My interviews with people such as Warren Beatty, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Barbra Streisand, Mel Brooks, Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, James Caan, Robin Williams, Christian Slater, Lucille Ball, Meryl Streep, Sharon Stone, Julia Roberts, Sir Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, Tom Cruise, Carrie Fisher, Whoopi Goldberg, Lauren Bacall, and Bruce Willis (just to name a few) have enlightened me about the art of acting and the history of Hollywood.
Each of the book's chapters is written by a locally based specialist (the authors include auctioneers, academics, consultants and dealers) who examines a country or region's art market history in terms of taste, fashion, value, art types, subjects, sales prices and records.
Mr Scafi tells this story well from the sublime start to the ridiculous end, with spectacular flourishes of art history and confident quotes from Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
Sarantis Symeonoglou is professor of art history and archaeology at Washington University in St Louis, US. He has spent years trying to tie locations on Ithaki to details in the poem.
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Lichtenstein is at this point interested in the history of art, and you can rarely tell whether these marvelous paintings and sculptures are parodies or homages, especially of or to Picasso.
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His expertise of Italian art was such that in 1957 he was awarded the Medal for Benemeriti della Cultura by the Italian president for services to criticism and history of Italian art.
He'd tossed Jessica's survey of art history, his Norton Shakespeare, and somebody's copy of Derrida's The Gift of Death into the fire pit they had dug in their backyard.
Visit the Yale University Art Gallery, which houses more than 185, 000 pieces of international and American art, or the Peabody Museum of Natural History, which displays mounted apatosaurus and stegosaurus dinosaur bones in its great hall.
The Homestead may no longer (or not yet) be a state-of-the-art property, but its sense of place and history still renders it one of the more appealing resorts on the East Coast.
Prince William studied geography and Middleton studied history of art before both graduated in 2005.
This is American art and history in all of its glorious and puzzling variety, presented with the perspective of time, impeccable scholarship and a wonderful eye.
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Prior to dinner, Paul Morris, the founding director of the show, gave guests a preview of the art that will be on display and a presented a brief history of its modest beginnings at the former Gramercy Hotel to its move to the 69th Street Regiment Armory and finally to its current home at Piers 92 and 94.
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Wright Museum of African American History, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Pewabic Pottery and the Motown Museum.
Some of them seem to be about business management, but one is about calculus, and there are others about art and history, and one narrow volume looks like a collection of poetry.
And with that he was off to his home for a nap, before returning to the museum that evening to escort the secretary of state and the cream of New York society through the history of American art.
But whatever the contradictions of a life designed to provoke and dazzle, Philip Johnson ceaselessly promoted architecture as the art that has shaped the great monuments and cities of history, and he sincerely believed that we owe the future a legacy of equal value.
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The first five installments of the series are something of an art-history and philosophy course.
The evening auction of Impressionist and Modern Art made history by realizing the highest total for any auction ever held in Europe.
In traditional Gundlach fashion, the manager spent most of his time referencing art and history in order to explain the current economic environment.
Martin Kemp, Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University and a leading expert on Leonardo da Vinci, gives the careful estimate that there are probably no more than 20 paintings by the master in the world, which suggests there could be five more to be discovered.
My many initiatives and collaborations encompass innovative educational outreach approaches to art and zoological history, ecological anthropology and aesthetics, the history of ideas, exploration, environmental psychology, comparative literature, philosophy and ethics, global biodiversity field research, systematics, deep demography and animal rights.
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