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Ekta

Ekta from No Limit Street Art Borås, Sweden Daniel Gotesson left Sweden at 18 to pursue a skateboarding and artistic career in London where he immediately got involved in graffiti scene. After returning home 9 years after he founded ORO gallery in Göteborg with 6 other artists. Just recently Daniel’s…

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Virtuality in philosophy

Virtuality is a concept in philosophy elaborated by French thinker Gilles Deleuze. The virtualization is the passage of current to the virtual. For Pierre Lévy the virtual is not the opposite of the real, but a continuation of it. There are several types of virtualization, such as the virtualization of…

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Urban sprawl

Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization. In addition to describing a particular form of urbanization, the term also relates to the social and environmental consequences associated with this…

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Travel Guide of Venetian Culinary Journey, Italy

The origin of Venetian cuisine is conceived under the long and glorious historical and cultural background of this unique city. Gourmet cuisine often comes from the surrounding environment, which also happens to be the most special place in Venetian cuisine. Geographically, there is a lack of land around the lagoon,…

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Unit Pengelola Museum Seni, Indonesia

Unit Pengelola Museum belongs to The Department of Tourism and Culture of the Special Capital Province of Jakarta, one of the provincial government agencies of DKI Jakarta. This service is responsible and responsible for all matters related to culture and tourism in Jakarta and Kepulauan Seribu. Jakarta Art Museum is…

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FAUNO

FAUNO from Estilo Libre, Buenos Aires, Argentina Somos un equipo de artistas, amantes del graffiti y la cultura urbana. Profesionales de Artes Visuales, Diseño, Comunicación, y emprendimientos sociales, consideramos que la expresión artística en el espacio público contribuye a la transformación social. Creemos que la conformación y consolidación de un…

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Octagon on cube

Octagon on cube (also octagon on the quadrangle) is a type of architectural composition, in which a building is designed so as the upper octagon-shaped part is placed on the lower cube-shaped part. This composition has been mainly used to design Russian orthodox churches. History Initially, this architectural solution became…

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Live Art Development Agency (LADA) London, United Kingdom

Established in 1999, the Live Art Development Agency (LADA) is the world’s leading organisation for Live Art, producing specialized projects, opportunities, resources and publications for those who make, watch, research, study, teach, produce, present, write about and archive Live Art, and creating conditions in which diversity, innovation and risk in…

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Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

Pera Museum is an art museum in the Tepebaşı quarter of the Beyoğlu (Pera) district in Istanbul, Turkey, located at Meşrutiyet Avenue No. 65 (adjacent to İstiklal Avenue and in close proximity to Taksim Square.) It has a particular focus on Orientalism in 19th-century art. The Pera Museum opened its…

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Navigation

Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation. It is also the term of…

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Review of Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2016, Stockholm, Sweden

Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, was held from February 9 to 13, 2016. Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair is the world’s largest meeting place for Scandinavian design. It has the most comprehensive selection of furniture, office furnishings, lighting, design objects, textiles and other interior furnishing for both homes and public…

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Cistercian architecture

Cistercian architecture is a style of architecture associated with the churches, monasteries and abbeys of the Roman Catholic Cistercian Order. It was headed by Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153), who believed that churches should avoid superfluous ornamentation so as not to distract from the religious life. Cistercian architecture was…

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Speech recognition

Speech recognition is the inter-disciplinary sub-field of computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enables the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It is also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR), computer speech recognition or speech to text (STT). It incorporates knowledge and research in…

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Themes of Romanticism

This specialized article lists the recurring themes of Romanticism in Art and Literature. Thematically, in the time of Romanticism, there was above all a renewed interest in landscape painting. The intense experience of nature and the wonder about her grandeur were central. However, landscapes were not the only thing, on…

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Ca ‘Giustinian, Venice, Italy

Ca ‘Giustinian is a palace in Venice, located in the San Marco district, is a gothic palace overlooking the Grand Canal, with spaces for conferences, concerts & exhibitions. Following the restoration of the palace, since 2010 Ca ‘Giustinian has been hosting all the organizing offices of the Venice Biennale. Overview…

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Amsterdam Impressionism

Amsterdam Impressionism was an art movement in late 19th-century Holland. It is associated especially with George Hendrik Breitner and is also known as the School of Allebé. These Amsterdam painters distinguished themselves from the Hague and Laren Schools mainly because of their choice of subject, which of course focused on…

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Ernst Fries

Ernst Fries (born June 22, 1801 in Heidelberg, Kurpfalz, dead October 11, 1833 in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden) was a German landscape painter in the transition from Romanticism to realism. He was buried in his native town of Heidelberg. His brother, Bernhard Fries, was a landscape painter of note.…

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Ashcan School

The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, was an artistic movement in the United States during the early 20th century that is best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city’s poorer neighborhoods. The most famous artists working in this style…

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School of Ferrara

The School of Ferrara was a group of painters which flourished in the Duchy of Ferrara during the Renaissance. Ferrara was ruled by the Este family, well known for its patronage of the arts. Patronage was extended with the ascent of Ercole d’Este I in 1470, and the family continued…

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Venice Cuisine, Food of the Water City, Italian Youth Committee UNESCO

Venetian cuisine is characterized by seafood, but also includes garden products from the islands of the lagoon, rice from the mainland, game, and polenta. Venice is not known for a peculiar cuisine of its own: it combines local traditions with influences stemming from age-old contacts with distant countries. These include…

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Eastern Orthodox church architecture

Eastern Orthodox church architecture constitutes a distinct, recognizable family of styles among church architectures. These styles share a cluster of fundamental similarities, having been influenced by the common legacy of Byzantine architecture from the Eastern Roman Empire. Some of the styles have become associated with the particular traditions of one…

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Fidel Aguilar Marcó

Fidel Aguilar i Marcó (Jul 20, 1894 – 1917) va ser un precoç escultor gironí que tot i morir amb només 22 anys va aconseguir un cert reconeixement en l’àmbit de l’escultura. He was born 20 of July of 1894 in the street of the Cort Reial of Gerona, although…

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