Nanyin is a musical performing art central to the culture of the people of Minnan in southern Fujian Province along China s south-eastern coast, and to Minnan populations overseas.
One would think that after 17 years on the job Alan Greenspan would have mastered the art of central banking.
On the occasion of the Forum, a series of new media art works, part of the project "Transitland (Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009)" , will also be featured.
To see the art of ancient Central and South America it is necessary to descend to the basement.
Schoeni Art Gallery in Central is focusing on just one artist.
The 70 participating galleries are located in the established art districts of Central, Sheung Wan, Wan Chai, Chai Wan and in the new arts areas of Wong Chuk Hang and Aberdeen.
His dedication to the art that was central to his existence, his proselytizing zeal for new work that pushes concept and practice beyond existing limits, his driving belief in architecture as the defining art of the present and the past, did much to re-establish a sense of the importance of the way we build in an age that worships the beauty of the bottom line.
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That is what Wendy Dagworthy, now at the Royal College of Art but once Stella McCartney's teacher at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, thinks.
The 150-room Tokyo Station Hotel offers European-style elegance (marble floors, vaulted ceilings, heavy moulding) plus state-of-the-art facilities in a central location.
Yet many do not have the time or the tools to carry out such research, which is a complex undertaking as there is no central register of art ownership.
When fashion king Calvin Klein first purchased the South half of the 5, 000-square-foot, two-level penthouse in the iconic Art Deco building at 55 Central Park West, the designer installed a hot tub on the rooftop terrace.
Freud, the son of an architect and older brother of the late broadcaster Clement Freud, went to the Central School of Art, in London and then to the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing and London's Goldsmiths College.
Lucia, the art on the walls highlights the central role that women have had in the church's past.
Strategic advantage (shih), a central feature of the Art of War, connotes the release of latent energy, both physical and psychological, in order to ride the forces of circumstances to victory.
From the art center he helped to create in South-Central Los Angeles, at the base of Simon Rodia's famous Watts Towers landmark art assembly, Noah Purifoy saw his neighborhood go up in flames.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) that runs the facility has for a decade been fitting it with state-of-the-art digital electronics, a new central computer, and high-speed transmission lines to carry the data that the 25m, 200-tonne dishes gather.
Born in the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian, Du graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.
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One member of the alliance is Professor Lorraine Gamman, director of the Design Against Crime Research Centre at Central St Martins School of Art and Design.
The confidence gained from looking slick is something Willie Walters, fashion course director at London's Central Saint Martins college of art and design, believes could give athletes the edge when it comes to winning medals.
The idea of abstraction is so central to the history of modern art that it left its mark on the work of nonvisual artists as well.
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Zoffany seems to have had a restless streak that kept him on the move, from Rome back to Germany, back to Italy, and then, by late 1760, to England, where he settled briefly and turned into a central observer and participant in the art and culture of his time.
Cut to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, located eight blocks away, just inside Central Park.
The Abramsons lived at the Ardsley, an Art Deco building at Ninety-second Street and Central Park West.
Such calculations are more art than science: one exercise by the European Central Bank estimated China's norm 16, 384 different ways.
The rooms, which open to the public on November 1st, bear the official and unwieldy name the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia.
But that will only work if buyers are prepared to sacrifice the one thing that is central to the way that people traditionally buy art - the chance to see it and experience it in the flesh first.
"Penn Station is a disaster, " said Vin Cipolla, president of the Municipal Art Society that helped save Manhattan's now-glorious Grand Central Terminal from demolition.
Gorgeous art nouveau details, such as the sweeping wroughtiron balustrade on the central staircase, are the hallmark of the Tulip House Boutique Hotel Sleep 14.
Cemex can do this because its trucks are now equipped with dashboard computer navigation terminals that allow tracking by a central dispatch unit using state-of-the-art global positioning satellite technology.
Public-school parents accuse the board of the 9, 000-student East Ramapo Central School District of cutting teachers, guidance counselors, art programs, all-day kindergarten and the high school marching band, while diverting public resources to favored Orthodox institutions.
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