Category: blogs & websites
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You, too, can be a patron of the arts
Following the model of other micro loan ventures, Kickstarter.com is a site where artists propose projects and everyone can contribute to their funding. Project descriptions are posted on the site, outlining the goals, medium, budget and time frame. Anyone can make a financial contribution, for any amount. According to their website more than half the…
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Survey: architects on architecture
Vanity Fair magazine recently conducted a survey of 52 architects and architecture critics and scholars, asking them to list the five most important structures (including buildings, bridge and monuments) built since 1980, and to name the most significant architectural work of the 21st century. All participants and their choices are listed here. A slideshow…
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Photographs revealed of Tibet 100 years ago
An album of extremely rare photographs of Tibet and its people, taken during a 1903 British mission, has both been publicized for the first time and auctioned off. The amazing photos were taken by Officer John Claude White and are the first known of their kind. Read or listen to an NPR interview by Renee…