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KHOJ International Artists’ Association New Delhi, India

KHOJ also known as KHOJ, International Artists’ Association is a non-profit organisation established to support contemporary art and emerging artists in South Asia. It is based out of New Delhi, India. KHOJ was founded in 1997 by artists like Anita Dube, Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, Manisha Parekh and Pooja Sood,…

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European Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

European Art collection of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts includes more than 10,000 objects in all media—including paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and works on paper—dating from the early medieval period to the mid-20th century. Highlights An excellent survey collection, VMFA’s European art holdings include Mellon Collections of British sporting art,…

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U.S. Department of the Interior Museum, Washington, United States

The Interior Museum is a museum operated by the United States Department of the Interior and housed at the Department’s headquarters at the Stewart Lee Udall Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C., on the first floor. importance of having the American people understand the work of the Department. To this…

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Museum of Popular Art in Mexico City, Mexico

The Museum of Popular Art is an institution dedicated to promoting and preserving Mexican folk art.It is located in the Historic Center of Mexico City on a site that belonged to an old fire station, the museum contains a collection that includes rugs, ceramics, glasses, piñatas, alebrijes, furniture, toys, kitchen…

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Fortified church

A fortified church is a church that is built to play a defensive role in times of war. Such churches were specially designed to incorporate military features, such as thick walls, battlements and embrasures. Others, such as the Cathedral of Ávila were incorporated into the town wall. Monastic communities, such…

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Guide Tour of Sentier and Montorgueil district, Paris, France

The Sentier district and the Montorgueil district was former district spans the administrative districts of Mail and Bonne-Nouvelle in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. The Sentier de Paris district is an important traditional textile manufacturing district in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. It takes its name from the rue du…

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Grenoble Travel Guide, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Grenoble is a town in south-eastern France, capital of the department of Isère, former capital of Dauphiné. Grenoble is the prefecture and largest city of the Isère department, It lies at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. A significant European scientific centre, the…

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Discovery in observation

Discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something “old” that had been unrecognized as meaningful. With reference to sciences and academic disciplines, discovery is the observation of new phenomena, new actions, or new events and providing new reasoning to explain the knowledge gathered through such observations with previously…

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Shizuoka city Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art, Japan

Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art (東海道広重美術館) is located at the Honjin site of the old Tōkaidō’s 16th post town Yui-shuku. It is the first art museum in Japan to focus on the works of Edo Ukiyo-e Artist, Utagawa Hiroshige. There are approximately 1400 landscape woodblock prints and other…

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Castellane, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

Castellane is a French commune, sub-prefecture of the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. With around 1,600 inhabitants, Castellane has the distinction of being the least populated sub-prefecture in France. The commune contains 7,000 acres of wood and forests. The Massif du Montdenier extends over the western part…

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China painting

China painting, or porcelain painting, is the decoration of glazed porcelain objects such as plates, bowls, vases or statues. The body of the object may be hard-paste porcelain, developed in China in the 7th or 8th century, or soft-paste porcelain (often bone china), developed in 18th-century Europe. The broader term…

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Hong Kong Fashion Week Fall/Winter & Spring/Summer 2017, China

Hong Kong Fashion Week, as Asia’s most important fashion event, presenting a wide array of new season garments, designer collections, fashion accessories, fabrics and clothing accessories. Hong Kong Fashion Week creating many important business opportunities for exhibitors from Hong Kong and around the globe. Hong Kong Fashion Week is the…

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Building engineer

A building engineer is recognised as being expert in the use of technology in the design, construction, assessment and maintenance of the built environment. Building engineers are concerned with the planning, design, construction, operation, renovation, and maintenance of buildings, as well as with their impacts on the surrounding environment. By…

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Sacristy, Church of Saint Roch in Lisbon

The Sacristy of São Roque is important, both symbolically and artistically, for being one of the earliest sacristies constructed by the Sociaty of Jesus, conceived in line with the liturgical recommendations emanating from the Council of Trent. Church sacristies took on the added function os “art galleries” for the edification…

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Royal Palace of Turin, Italy

The Royal Palace of Turin is the first and most important of the Savoy residences in Piedmont, theater of the politics of the Savoy states for at least three centuries. It was originally built in the 16th century and was later modernized by Christine Marie of France (1606–1663) in the…

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Museum of African American History, Boston & Nantucket, United States

The Museum of African American History in Boston and Nantucket is the largest institution of its kind in New England and is dedicated to sharing the rich legacy of African American accomplishments. For nearly five decades, the Museum’s education programs, exhibits and events have interpreted the economic, literary, educational, political,…

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The Rebozo Made in Mexico, Franz Mayer Museum

The exhibition on the rebozo – the classic Mexican shawl made famous in 20th century culture by artist Frida Kahlo. Nearly 200 pieces between rebozos, painting, photography, fashion and contemporary textile art from the United Kingdom and Mexico, make up the exhibition “The rebozo”. Made in Mexico explores the key…

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Women’s fashion in Western European 1500–1520s

Women’s fashions of the early 16th century consisted of a long gown, usually with sleeves, worn over a kirtle or undergown, with a linen chemise or smock worn next to the skin. The high-waisted gown of the late medieval period evolved in several directions in different parts of Europe. In…

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Modern dance

The modern dance as a reaction to classical forms and probably as a need to express more freely with the body. It is a dance class that seeks to express, through the dancer, an idea, a feeling, an emotion, like classical ballet, but mixing bodily movements of the twentieth and…

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Imaginarium 2015: A Voyage of Big Ideas, Singapore Art Museum

Imaginarium is SAM’s much-loved annual contemporary art exhibition for children, begun in 2010 and now in its fifth year. In the spirit of SG50, this year’s exhibition is inspired by the crescent moon on the Singapore flag, a symbol of a young nation on the rise with the capacity to…

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Series of apartment buildings

The series of residential buildings (Russian: Серии жилых домов) are residential buildings built according to a group of typical projects united into a series, which, within the series, can differ in the number of sections, the number of sections, the orientation and minor details of the architectural finishes. As a…

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Hall of Lost Steps, São Bento Palace

At the top of the Noble Staircase, the Sala dos Passos Perdidos, adjacent to the Sala das Sessões, functions as the great center for meetings and seminar between deputies, government members and journalists. The room, designed by Ventura Terra, was built above the Atrium, respecting and following its layout and…

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