He studied both English and Japanese pattern-cutting techniques at Leggatts Design Academy (his graduate collection was all reversible) and worked as a costume designer before launching Black Coffee in 1998.

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The Opera Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts maintains a rich collection of written and audiovisual resources and conducts research into a wide range of areas.

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Saatchi included works by these artists in a headline-snatching 1997 exhibition of a part of his collection, at London's Royal Academy of Art.

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Pannasiha, a monk who goes by one name and teaches at a prestigious Buddhist academy in Yangon, says Myanmar cannot thrive as a collection of separate communities living side by side.

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The Academy said the posters filled "significant gaps" in its collection and were "a dream to receive".

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The Academy of Art University in San Francisco is showing a collaborative collection sponsored by UBIFRANCE, the French Trade Commission, on Friday at Lincoln Center in an effort to boost the profile of French mills in the United States.

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Her buildings look as if they could fly you to the moon, but two recent buildings demonstrate that there is more to her work than a showy exterior: the Riverside Museum, which houses an important collection of historic vehicles, in Glasgow, and the Evelyn Grace Academy in Brixton.

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The publication produced by the experts of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences and international experts contains materials that provide a description of the manuscript collection at the Institute of Oriental Studies, representing more than 26, 000 manuscripts and 39, 000 lithographs.

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At the free online-education provider Khan Academy, for instance, students get a "Great Listener" badge for watching 30 minutes of videos from its collection of thousands of short lectures.

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