GREENSBORO, NC (October 26, 2021) – As part of the One City, One Book community, the Greensboro Public Library will welcome award-winning author and storyteller Freeman Owle at 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 4 at the Central Library, 219 N. St. Owle’s Church will feature Stories of the Cherokee Nation and a stone carving workshop. […]
College Of Lake County: Uncovering Passi...
Mercado won the state championship this year in the SkillsUSA Welding Sculptures competition and finished tenth in the national competition out of around 50 entrants. Photo: Moises Mercado and his state-winning owl sculpture. Photo: Moises Mercado and his state-winning owl sculpture. Participation in the competition was recommended to him by Karsten Illg, welding instructor and […]
IBM develops hardware-based vector symbo...
IBM Research recently announced an Augmented Memory Neural Network (MANN) AI system consisting of a neural network controller and phase change memory (PCM) hardware. By performing in-memory analog calculations on large-dimension (HD) binary vectors, the system learns few-hit classification tasks on the Omniglot benchmark with only a 2.7% drop in accuracy compared to 32-bit software […]
Ideal conditions: protection of historic...
When Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris experienced a near-catastrophic fire in April 2019, it was a stark reminder that important cultural documents and artefacts, such as original literary works and priceless works of art, could be so lost. permanent in an instant. . Even data stored on university hard drives is a potential victim of […]
How a Primitivist Lives: The Sculpture b...
To encapsulate the works of an artist in a particular aesthetic or ideological movement is in itself anachronistic. The dominant postmodern cultural milieu harbors a complex diversity of new curatorial ideas about the placement of works of art in specific theoretical and institutional contexts. That said, sculptor Burcu Erden’s daring dedication to her work’s distinctiveness […]
Nordic – Office of Architecture reveals
Nordic – Office of Architecture reveals interior design of Jiangbei 3B international terminal © Tuzen To share To share Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Mail Or https://www.archdaily.com/970707/nordic-office-of-architecture-reveals-the-interior-design-of-jiangbei-international-terminal-3b Nordic Office of Architecture won the interior design competition for the new Terminal 3B at Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport in China with a concept that incorporates experiential programs and […]
Sotheby’s to auction a painting of the w
Sotheby’s will celebrate the achievements of artists and artisans from the Islamic world with a new auction on October 27. As part of the “Arts of the Islamic World and India” auction, an oil portrait of Hürrem Sultan, wife of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I who was also known as Roxelana in the West, will […]
Frederick McCubbin painting unveiled for...
“It redefined a national art movement. These artists were pioneers … it’s painted in a very short period of European colonization from Melbourne, in the 1880s in Marvelous Melbourne, there is an extraordinary influx of buildings and architecture, it’s cosmopolitan, people come from all over the world, it’s multicultural. Loading “It is a period that […]
Adaptation: The journey from literature ...
A screenshot from the 1962 film Chased by the Dogs, based on Naguib Mahfouz’s novel The Thief and the Dogs “Adaptation: from literature to cinema – stops along a common history” is the title launched at the beginning of the year by Al-Maraya for cultural production. This book of just over 300 pages is essentially […]
Subversions: Essays on Life and Literatu...
PADMA SHRI and Sahitya Akademi Fellow, novelist Shashi Deshpande has, for more than four long decades, contributed extensively and richly to public debates on the role of the writer and writing in India, and on various social, literary and contemporary policies. She is the author of 11 novels and her work has been translated into […]