China's Return To The Silk RoadMonday, July 11, 2011 @ 10:08AMPhotographs by Adam Dean and Susetta Bozzi China is reclaiming its place as the world's megabazaar, with the city of Yiwu as its one-stop shop for traders from the Muslim world. THE megamall is bustling with shoppers at noon when two Pakistani men -- dark-skinned with black beards, wearing white skullcaps and the traditional salwar kameez of the subcontinent -- drop their bags near a third-floor ...
Cultural sell-outSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 8:43PMShould cash-strapped local councils offload their works of art?
It's art, but still a living for WacoansThursday, April 28, 2011 @ 11:11AMCan artists make a living in Waco?
Oriental rug exhibit at Georgia Museum of Agriculture begins April 28Monday, April 25, 2011 @ 12:34PMTHOMASVILLE — The Gallery at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village operated by Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College will host a new exhibit titled “One Thousand And One Nights: The Oriental Rug Collection of C.L. Morehead, Jr.” beginning April 28.
NEW BUSINESS LICENSES: Week of March 21, 2011Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 2:54PMNEW BUSINESS LICENSES: Week of March 21, 2011
From family farm to family restaurantFriday, January 28, 2011 @ 9:54PMBELFAST, Maine - Penny Chase, 61, rattles down winding roads from her family's farm in Freedom, Maine, to Chase's Daily - their grand farm-stand restaurant on Main Street here. Before noon she pulls up to the back door and unloads produce grown by her husband, Addison, 61, and daughter, Meghan, 32. From crates in the back of the old white-panel ...
Faces first: Ahni strives for peace through portraitsSaturday, January 15, 2011 @ 11:44PMFashion designer and artist Ahni Sallaway is putting her best faces forward. Nine of them, to be exact, in large and vividly colored paintings. The Annapolis resident has spent the past year working on portraits, and she's far from done. She hopes to have around 40 before she's through, featuring women from as many countries as possible in a project called "I Am You." Ahni's aim is to promote ...
The best books for Christmas: Our pick of 2010Thursday, November 25, 2010 @ 6:25PMIt was the year when so much was supposed to change and, for most readers, so little really did. E-books continued to rack up around 97 per cent of all book-industry chatter while amounting to (at most) 3 per cent of the UK market. That will change. Jonathan Franzen's US digital sales for Freedom approached one-third, but for an old-fashioned domestic epic which proved that classic fiction could ...
Rescuing RembrandtWednesday, November 10, 2010 @ 1:33AMDuring the darkest days of World War II, a ragtag band of British and American art scholars braved the battlefields of Europe to rescue thousands of cultural treasures from Nazi pillage and the collateral damage of armed conflict. These "monuments men'' propped up collapsing buildings; repaired battle-scarred frescoes and mosaics; guided Allied bombers away from world-renowned libraries and ...