Islamic gallery opens at Detroit art museum « GOATMILK: An …

“The Arab and Islamic community is significant enough that it needs to see itself in the museum,” said director Graham W.J. Beal. “Their collection had not been shown very prominently in the previous recent decades.” …

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Row over plan to build Jewish museum of tolerance on site of …

Dyala Husseini visits a Muslim cemetery near the construction site of a museum of tolerance Dyala Husseini visits a Muslim cemetery, where her ancestors are buried, near the construction site of a museum dedicated to tolerance. …

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The architecture of peptidoglycan | Health News

A crucial feature of the architecture of peptidoglycan is the orientation of the glycan strands and peptides with regard to surface and axis of the cell. However, the large size, structural heterogeneity and flexibility of the …

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UT Architecture Faculty Honored by National Architecture Organization

Tricia Stuth, an associate professor, was one of only three architecture faculty in the country recognized by the ACSA and the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) with the 2009-2010 New Faculty Teaching Award. …

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Contemporary art trends over the next decade « The ALP Blog

Identifying recent art trends is tough enough – we can’t see the forest for the trees, so to speak. Everything around us is so different and madly off in all directions, but art trends emerge clearly upon retrospect over time with the …

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Extra Credit: WWI Museum in Kansas City « Peoples of Kansas

For my extra credit blog, I visited the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial in Kansas City. As you can see in the picture the memorial is a tower with two sphinxes on each side. The two square buildings on the sides are …

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A review of The Art of Capacity Planning by John Allspaw at Xaprb

The Art of Capacity Planning. By John Allspaw, O’Reilly 2008. Page count: 130 pages. (Here’s a link to the publisher’s site.) This is an outstanding book. As far as I know Ewen Fortune was the first Perconian to read it, and it’s been …

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Guggenheim Museum « Iconic Photos

In above photo taken in August 1945, architect Frank Lloyd Wright shows the plan of Guggenheim Museum to Solomon Guggenheim and Hilla von Rebay. Baroness Rebay, an avid art collector and a long-time friend and confidante of Guggenheim, …

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Recent History and Sanford Investigations Prove that Transparency …

It is apparent that South Carolinians have not learned from the unfortunate history of our state’s leadership abusing their access to various funds and other tax payer funded perks at their disposal. Whether it is former University of …

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Night at the museum « Palm Beach Princess

Last night I had the privilege of going to Art After Dark, an event held at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. I’m writing about the event for the Palm Beach Illustrated calendar and one of the perks was I got to go to the …

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