Inspired by the success of the Angel of the North at Gateshead, recent such grand public art project spending has enhanced journeys along the M8 and at Cumbernauld.
If the new model for leadership is being a facilitator and enabler who is steadfastly anchored in the NOW world, one of the great grand masters of this art was the designer Coco Chanel.
The art museum palazzos along the Grand Canal adumbrate hubris, a dangerous trait for anyone who collects art and operates in financial markets.
With abject competitive fury, he was not above imitating the grand dragon of the Venice art world, Titian, and his designated successor, Veronese.
Art lovers should follow up the grand neoclassical Fitzwilliam Museum with the unassuming Kettle's Yard, a treasure trove of 20th-century art, ceramics and sculpture.
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The Grand Hotel Europa, a stunning Art Nouveau building on the north side of Wenceslas Square, was known to Kafka as the Hotel Erzherzog Stefan.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection houses a first-class collection of 20th-century art from Dali to Duchamp in a beautiful white palazzo on the Grand Canal, and the Punta della Dogana, a contemporary art centre at the tip of Dorsoduro, contains the modern art collection of Francois Pinault, the CEO of Kering, which owns labels like Gucci and Saint Laurent.
Bill Gates' grand scheme to license the world's art masterpieces and have them flash onto wall monitors in people's living rooms fizzled.
But droves of cosmopolitan types have made their way back namely to the Roma and Condesa neighborhoods renovating the grand but neglected French-style mansions and Art Deco buildings, and spawning flourishing art, culinary and design scenes.
That is thanks to the grand opening of a state-of-the-art facility in Bargino, the Marchesi Antinori Chianti Classico Cellar.
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Standing by the busy highway, it was easy to doubt that an idyllic art project, even one executed at the grand scale of the village at Jinze, could have an impact on the juggernaut of China's development.
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They are part of the grand march of British culture, of tatty fashions, improbable art, ear-damaging pop music, distrust of foreigners and politically-incorrect opinions.
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Minoru kept the company name and focused on building grand office towers surrounded by shops, condos, parks and art galleries such as Roppongi Hills, meant to create the feel of a hilly community in flat Tokyo.
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"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.
New York (CNN) -- Exactly eight months after the "brazen" theft of a Salvador Dali painting from a Manhattan art gallery, a Greek national was indicted Tuesday on a grand larceny charge, according to the New York County District Attorney's Office.
Behind a nearby table laden with smaller, handmade pipes fashioned from art glass and recycled guitar wood, a volunteer points out the grand prize for a raffle at Hempfest's own upcoming "420 Fest": a colorful hand-stitched quilt with a stylized marijuana leaf in its center panel.
The Met's Islamic galleries offer a grand voyage to faraway times and places, and an eye-opening display of art.
It was a grand 20-plus-room space designed for regal receptions and the display of a serious art collection.
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