ISLAMABAD: The government is currently in a fix on LNG bids it received for the month of March and is making its mind either to stick with the bids which are at higher side or go for retendering as.
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU opens two dynamic spring exhibitions
Black Kirby, Sun Woman, 2012. Digital archival print on paper, 24 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
MIAMI, FLA
.- This January, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU will launch its spring programming, celebrating topics that include Afrofuturism and the concept of cyclical time.
Transfiguration: A Black Speculative Vision of Freedom
Since the debut of Marvels Black Panther (2018), the focus on Afrofuturism in the United States has skyrocketed. Mark Dery, American author, lecturer and cultural critic, defined the term in 1994 in an attempt to understand why African Americans did not engage with science fiction. Derys assertion that Black people have other stories to tell about culture, technology, and things to come can be seen in the vibrant visual culture linked to Black speculative art.
Lucy Lacoste Gallery opens an exhibition of ceramics by British artist Ken Eastman
Ken Eastman, Shaping Silence, 2020. 13.25h x 17.50w in.
CONCORD, MASS
.-Lucy Lacoste Gallery starts the 2021 season with the esteemed British artist Ken Eastmans exhibition Border Country, created expressly for the Gallery. The work of this modernist master centers around the idea of the vessel. He uses the vessel as a subject, to give meaning and form to an expression. Working through the medium of ceramics, Eastman can be both builder and painter handling shape and structure, as well as exploring tone and color.
These latest multi-faceted pots were made from numerous slabs of clay, shaped and assembled in a spontaneous and intuitive way. This process meant that the forms couldnt be planned beyond loose ideas about scale, proportion and complexity. These vessels with their composition of broad, sweeping planes and layers of color can be seen as landscape, painting or sculpture. Lighting on t
RTA to host first-of-its-kind fancy number plate auction this month
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As many as 350 catchy numbers will be up for grabs.
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is offering 350 catchy number plates of two, three, four and five digits for private and classic vehicles.
The plates on offer bear codes A-B-C-D-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Z, in addition to distinctive plates of Code 2 for motorbikes. The 63rd online auction is the first of its kind this year.
Registration of bidders starts this Sunday, 24th January, and the bidding process kicks off at 08:00 am on Sunday, 31st January, and continue for five days only.