News from Guardian Unlimited - 07/14/2011
Qatar becomes world's biggest buyer of contemporary art
Massive spending spree undertaken by royal family ahead of 2022 World Cup football tournament The tiny emirate of Qatar has become the world's biggest art buyer after a massive spending spree by the royal family to enhance its cultural portfolio before the 2022 World Cup. Research by the Art Newspaper has revealed that Qatar has been responsible for the bulk of contemporary and modern art ...
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News from Press Association via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News - 06/15/2011
Janet Jackson tops bill at Louvre
Janet Jackson blasted her way through a raucous set at a glitzy charity gala inside the Louvre museum in Paris.
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News from Belfast Telegraph - 06/07/2011
Mile high in Denver
For such a large country, the United States is an amazingly homogenous place. That said, there are often strong regional differences in culture, lifestyle and attitudes. Related Stories 48 hours in: Warsaw 48 hours in: Chelsea Herault: the quieter end of the French Med Ryanair offers seat booking 48 hours in: Avignon
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News from The Irish Times - 04/28/2011
Same day, different kind of wedding
The royal wedding will fade into the background today forKATHY SHERIDAN, who will instead be watching her niecetake a less orthodox wedding route amid outhouses, swallows, family muck-ins and hand-painted murals
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News from News 24 South Africa - 04/21/2011
Science museum offers Segway tours
Boston's Museum of Science has bought a fleet of 30 Segways as the institution plans on four tours of six people each per day.
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News from Gulf Times - 03/31/2011
Staff bid adieu to museum director
A farewell lunch gathering was held yesterday at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) for outgoing director Dr Oliver Watson, who is leaving Doha to return to Britain.
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News from Daily Telegraph - 03/24/2011
New York city break: an insider's guide to hotels
Our guide to New York accommodation, from luxury hotels to budget and self-catering options.
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News from Wired News - 02/17/2011
Photos: The Historic House Steve Jobs Demolished
This is the Jackling House—exactly how Steve Jobs has wanted it to look since he bought it in 1984, the year of the Macintosh launch. Demolished. Destroyed. Blown to smithereens.
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News from Independent - 12/30/2010
The Diary: Werner Herzog; IM Pei’s Pyramid; Aurelio Zen; American Psycho; Hamlet! The Musical
If anyone can combine ancient history and cutting-edge 3D technology, Werner Herzog can. For his latest documentary, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, he journeyed into the Chauvet cave in Southern France to film its wall paintings, some of which date back 32,000 years.
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News from Arabian Business - 12/15/2010
Trophy building
Qatar’s construction is not all just for show.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 12/05/2010
Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani: Ambitious emir's World Cup win| Ian Black
Hosting the 2022 finals is the latest triumph in this charismatic, some say visionary, leader's plan to put his tiny country of Qatar on the global scene Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani is a big man, whether wearing a business suit or the flowing robes of a traditional Gulf ruler, and he wore his very broadest smile in Zurich on Thursday when Qatar won its quest for the 2022 World Cup – a crowning ...
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News from Arabian Business - 11/12/2010
Trophy building
Qatar’s construction is not all just for show.
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News from Arabian Business - 11/12/2010
Doha rising
Doha is shaping up to be a show piece for contemporary architectural talent. Orlando Crowcroft talks to Ibrahim Mohamed Al Jaidah, director of veteran Qatar-based firm Arab Engineering Bureau (AEB) about how the city is becoming an encyclopedia of architecture.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 11/11/2010
French museums: In lasting memory …
Who founded great French cultural centres, and how involved they got with their projects Georges Pompidou Pompidou Centre Named after the French president who commissioned its construction, the inside-out gallery designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers quickly became one of the most-visited cultural monuments in the world. The president and his wife, Claude, were keen collectors of ...
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News from WBUR Boston - 11/11/2010
MFA Director Wants To Welcome ‘Broader Audience’
As the Museum of Fine Arts prepares to open its highly anticipated Art of the Americas wing, Director Malcolm Rogers wants the city to feel at home in the museum’s new addition.
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News from The New York Observer - 11/05/2010
It's Free to Look: Midtown IM Pei-nthouse
One of three penthouses in The Centurion is back on the market this week with a new broker and a new price--$12.3 million. Now listed with Prodigy International, the 3-bedroom duplex hasn't managed to hook a long term owner since it first came on the market in 2008, listed at $11.5 million with Corcoran. The Centurion is the work of Pei Partnership, a collaboration between I.M. Pei and his son ...
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News from Independent - 11/04/2010
Red-carpet glamour amid the sand dunes
If you want to know what's happening in Doha, just take a look at its skyscrapers. Last week there was barely an inch of the city's walls that wasn't plastered with a gigantic billboard. Venus and Serena Williams stared moodily out from the Khalifa International Tennis Complex where they were competing in the WTA Championships.
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News from Arabian Business - 10/14/2010
Doha rising
Ibrahim Mohamed Al Jaidah, director of the Arab Engineering Bureau, on why Qatar matters now more than ever
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News from Australian Broadcasting Corporation - 09/14/2010
Real Madrid's spending has a ceiling
Real Madrid plans to cover its famous Santiago Bernabeu stadium in the heart of the Spanish capital, said the club's president Florentino Perez.
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News from North Bay Business Journal - 09/06/2010
$41 million Buck project in second phase
NOVATO – A $41 million expansion of the Buck Institute for Age Research has moved into its second phase toward completion in 2012.
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