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POPSArtificial Sand Dune to House New Museum According to this blog post on Gizmodo, the new Museum of Modern Arab Art in Doha, Qatar is being built in an artificial 350,000 square foot sand dune. It won't be completed until 2011, but in the meantime take a look at the mock-up.
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POPSIlluminating Beauty, Illustrating Harmony Interactive Show at the source. Illuminating Beauty, Illustrating Harmony: A Gallery celebrating the 25th Anniversary of The Institute of Ismaili Studies ...invites the viewer to the large and complex subject of the artistic and intellectual heritage of Islam. Ranging in date from the ninth to the nineteenth century, and produced in lands as far westward as Tunisia and as far eastward as China and India, the artefacts reflect the great diversity and range of a distinctive visual culture with its own unique artistic language. ‘Illuminating’ and ‘illustrating’ are appropriate from with the perspectives of calligraphy and the arts of the book, and are also linked to notions of knowledge and learning in Islam. A significant number of items in this exhibition are, therefore, related to the arts of the book, in particular the Qur’an.
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POPSTurquoise Mountain: Invest in Afghan Arts To Save Kabul Battered by over two decades of war, limited access to new materials and cheaper imports from China and Pakistan, there is an urgent need to support the rural craft communities of Afghanistan. The Foundation has developed a Sustainable and Authentic Crafts Standard, which guarantees the authenticity and ethical value of any Afghan products it promotes. The Foundation will establish a permanent resource and research center where it plans to build a gas kiln, a workshop, a laboratory for testing glazes, and a library. This improvement in training and resources will be matched with valuable access to the visiting tourist market.
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POPSDream in Kanji http://www.tshirtdujour.com/index.cgi/18446744072216346002.tshirtdujour-195666781.-.2+dream-in-kanji-infant-bodysuit.html Home: http://www.tshirtdujour.com
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POPSHappy New Year in Kanji http://www.tshirtdujour.com/index.cgi/18446744072216346002.tshirtdujour-194485298+happy-new-year-in-kanji-mug.html Home: http://www.tshirtdujour.com
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POPSToddler Fools The Art World Personally I think his mother is brilliant. If someone wants to pay for what they think is Modern Art, well, I certainly hope they are happy with what they get. On the other hand, regardless of all this, I kind of liked the Best Loved Elephant.
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POPSJose Saramago Book Content Motivation Reading Jose Saramago's provocative books make one wonder about what shaped the author. Here's a bit from Kathleen Fitzpatrick, an editor posted at BarnesAndNoble.com.
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POPSIn Japan, When Word Was Wed to Image
The exhibition, organized by Felice Fischer, the Philadelphia museum’s longtime curator of Japanese art, with Kyoko Kinoshita, assistant curator, includes many important loans from Japanese museums — among them several works designated as national treasures — and is accompanied by an excellent and hefty catalog. Taiga’s renown, along with the record-keeping traditions of Japan and the affectionate esteem in which he was held by his fellow artists and students, means that a lot is known about his life, travels, friendships and dealings. Versed in Chinese painting and poetry of all periods, but especially that of the literati artists of the Ming and Qing dynasties; familiar with the reigning schools of official Japanese art; inculcated with Neo-Confucian thought and interested in Daoism and Buddhism, Taiga was exceptionally erudite but not an aesthete; his work often has a visceral directness. He infused his copies of Chinese landscape paintings with a sense of reality gained from ext
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POPSAllahu Akbar Hoody New hoody available from Ilmwear. It takes Turkish style Islamic calligraphy and applies it to a hoody in English. It looks stunning, though may run into some difficulties with those who interpret Islam more strictly: “wearing the name of God on your BACK?”, etc.
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