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BECOME A SHAOLIN DISCIPLE AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE! Attend a special ceremony at the Shaolin Temple at 12 noon on Sunday, January 22, 2023 and learn about our programs to earn a certificate as a Shaolin Disciple/Instructor! Do you want to learn how to become a Shaolin Warrior? Do you want to use your skills as a Shaolin Warrior to instruct others and/or become a stunt choreographer for action movies? This is an opportunity for…
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After a long day at work, closed a $150 million dollar deal, driving in your Bugatti to your opulent heavenly abode, the penultimate BURJ BINGHATTI JACOB CO RESIDENCES, to celebrate with your loved ones, have LOUIS XIII and enjoy the panoramic views of Dubai, about 400 meters high, 104th level. The BURJ BINGHATTI JACOB CO RESIDENCES, the world’s tallest and opulent tower residences of more than 110 storeys, is a magnanimous gift to Dubai. For…
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“They are not furniture, they are not sculpture – call them ‘Lalannes’.” – Claude Lalanne “The supreme art is the art of living.” – François-Xavier Lalanne.’ Christie’s unveiled in Dubai for the first time ever 11 exceptional sculptures and other works by the French artist couple Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, from the collection of the artists’ daughter, Madame Marie Lalanne, on 8 November 2022 at the Design Days Dubai (8-12 November). The art connoisseurs and…
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He painted the world anew in each picture, showing a cacophony of contradictions and contraindications, which reflected his inner world. He was truly the human manifestation of an oxymoron! Although he rarely produced a movie that was a commercial success and almost always made his films on a small budget and independently, Jean-Luc Godard persisted as a filmmaker for many decades, and each movie had a different perspective than his previous one. His body of…
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Many considered the Hollywood couple to be “lavender lovers,” a name given to a male-female pair who marry for convenience and to conceal the true nature of their stigmatized sexual orientation. Whether it was a marriage of convenience or a romantic affair, Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova became one of Hollywood’s power couples of the 1920s. He was Hollywood’s first sex symbol. She was a spiritualist costume designer who dabbled in acting but would later…
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Peggy Guggenheim was an eccentric art collector (and Virgo), born August 26, 1898 to Florette Seligman, of the banking Seligmans, and Benjamin Guggenheim, of the mining Guggenheims. Art patronage seemed to run deep in the family, as did their pockets. Her uncle was Solomon R. Guggenheim (yes, that Solomon R. Guggenheim.) Amassing one of the most extensive collections in the world, she did not consider herself a mere collector, and in her own words, “I…
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Fernand Leger, in thought and deed, was a ground breaking artist. His tubist variations of cubism spiked with Machine Age abstractionism spawned highly recognizable idiosyncratic masterworks which fostered the Pop Art Movement. To better understand and appreciate Leger’s art, let us contemplate what he believed, as expressed in his own words: “The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art….
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Art Deco Buildings Still Well Preserved in Detroit THE FISHER BUILDING, DETROIT The building known as “Detroit’s largest art object” has been dropping jaws in New Center for nearly a century. The Fisher — built by the Fisher brothers of “Body by Fisher” fame — opened in September 1928, at Second Avenue and Grand Boulevard. Once known as the Cathedral to Commerce, the 441-foot tower is decked to the nines in fancy marbles, mosaics, soaring,…
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Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator, renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of photography. Steichen was credited with transforming photography into an art form.[2] His photographs appeared in Alfred Stieglitz’s groundbreaking magazine Camera Work more often than anyone else during its publication run from 1903 to 1917. Stieglitz hailed him as “the greatest photographer that ever…
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THE GUARDIAN BUILDING, DETROIT The Roaring Twenties were the backdrop for the renowned architect Wirt C. Rowland to create a building like no other. In the 1920s, the city of Detroit was a worldwide industrial and commercial hub, and the city grew with unprecedented prosperity. It was in this era that a newly organized banking group – the Union Trust Company – was anxious to communicate their public image through their flagship headquarters and new…
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