Lynne Cunningham has an outstanding career as a landscape architect and had completed many urban public projects in Northern California. So that’s not unusual that her paintings are focuses on subjects as cityscapes, landscapes, memory paintings or derived from nature. My paintings are contemporary and expressionist. I work with a color ... Read More »
Simple, contemporary concrete volume that is both functional and dynamic is resting on the picturesque landscape near the river Leie in Belgium. The modern and luxurious dwelling created by the Govaert & Vanhoutte Architects holds many hidden or exposed leisure time spaces that intrigue the imagination. Secluded roof – garden ... Read More »
The confirmation hearings for Betsy DeVos provided an inordinate amount of drama: guns and grizzlies, an all-night talkathon on the Senate floor, and Vice President Mike Pence’s tie-breaking vote — and with good reason. DeVos, now confirmed as secretary of Education, is not just another inexperienced member of the president’s ... Read More »
lm director and writer Martin Davidson and his wife, designer Sandy Davidson, have put their home in Hollywood Hills West up for sale at $2.995 million. The residence, built in 1940, is the only property the couple looked at when they arrived in L.A. a little more than four decades ... Read More »
An executive order signed by US president Donald Trump late on Friday afternoon immediately barring immigrants and non-immigrant visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US has had immediate effects on scholars and students. More than 17,000 students in the U.S. come from the seven countries affected by the ... Read More »
Steve Bannon, the chief strategist and senior counselor to President Trump, said the press should be ashamed at how out of touch it is with the United States and just “listen for a while.” Bannon, who used to edit the far-right website Breitbart before heading Trump’s presidential campaign, delivered the ... Read More »
Most of the world welcomed the 2017 new year on Jan. 1, but the holiday falls on a different date in Chinese culture. Also referred to as Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year is based on the lunar calendar, so the date changes annually. The 2017 Chinese New Year begins ... Read More »
At least 20 people have been killed and 40 wounded after a bomb exploded at a vegetable market in northwest Pakistan. The blast happened in the city of Parachinar, a mainly Shia Muslim area on the Afghan border. The market was full of shoppers when the device exploded. Officials said ... Read More »
They have long been dismissed as primitive and unintelligent brutes. But now, an ‘interesting’ stone has added to mounting evidence that Neanderthals had their own relatively sophisticated culture and may have cherished symbolic objects. Researchers discovered a brown piece of split limestone in a site in Croatia that suggests a ... Read More »
As chancellor of the state Board of Regents, Betty Rosa is as well informed as anyone on issues affecting education in New York. But when it comes to the shape of national policy under President Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos, his nominee for secretary of education, she knows as little as anyone ... Read More »
Senate Democrats hit Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s pick for education secretary, on all sides at her confirmation hearing Tuesday night. But the question that made her look worst required her to demonstrate a basic understanding of education policy — a test DeVos failed. Sen. Al Franken asked DeVos to explain ... Read More »
The French and Indian space agencies have signed a technology partnership agreement. The deal between the French space agency CNES and Indian space agency ISRO covers work on launch technology, including how to streamline mission costs. A separate deal between CNES and TeamIndus, a competitor in the Google Lunar X ... Read More »
