MOSCOW.- From August 31 to September 5, 2010 Moscow Centre for Contemporary Art Winzavod will hold the fourth International Design Festival Design Act 2010. The DESIGN ACT mission is to showcase global industrial design trends, to bring the audience c…
Craftsman Seeks to Save Millennium-Old World of Chinese Lead Type
TAIPEI (AP).- Hunched over a metal casting machine, Chang Chieh-kuan carefully guides a tiny copper mold into a hydraulic press. Seconds later he extracts a piece of lead type with the Chinese character for “happiness.” That’s one down, thousands more…
Taiwan Craftsman Seeks to Save Millennium-Old World of Chinese Lead Type
TAIPEI (AP).- Hunched over a metal casting machine, Chang Chieh-kuan carefully guides a tiny copper mold into a hydraulic press. Seconds later he extracts a piece of lead type with the Chinese character for “happiness.” That’s one down, thousands more…
Finding Reveals Contact Between Teotihuacan and Costa Grande Region
MEXICO CITY.- Nearly 6,000 fragments of Teotihuacan-style ceramics, more than 1,400 years old, were found recently in Costa Grande Region, in Guerrero, by specialists of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The finding reveals th…
President Barack Obama and His Family Visit Spy Museum
WASHINGTON (AP).- It’s hard to travel incognito when you’re the president — even on a mission to a spy museum. President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and daughter Sasha made a Friday night visit to the International Spy Museum in downtown Washi…
President Barack Obama and His Family Visit Spy Museum
WASHINGTON (AP).- It’s hard to travel incognito when you’re the president — even on a mission to a spy museum. President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and daughter Sasha made a Friday night visit to the International Spy Museum in downtown Washi…
A Tribute to Andy Warhol with an Exclusive Collection of Bottles of Dom Pérignon
NEW YORK, NY.- With the creation of an exclusive collection of three bottles by the Design Laboratory at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art & Design, Dom Pérignon pays tribute to Andy Warhol, creative genius and one of the most illustrious arti…
A Tribute to Andy Warhol with an Exclusive Collection of Bottles of Dom Pérignon
NEW YORK, NY.- With the creation of an exclusive collection of three bottles by the Design Laboratory at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art & Design, Dom Pérignon pays tribute to Andy Warhol, creative genius and one of the most illustrious arti…
University of Virginia Puts Out Faulkner Audio Archives
RICHMOND, VA (AP).- Fans of Southern literature have read William Faulkner for decades. Now they can hear the author speak. The University of Virginia has published an online audio archive of the Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s two-year term…
Reconstruction of 10,000 Year-Old Woman Found in Mexico Suggests Diverse Migration
MEXICO CITY (AP).- A scientific reconstruction of one of the oldest sets of human remains found in the Americas appears to support theories that the first people who came to the hemisphere migrated from a broader area than once thought, researchers say…