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Artist Emily Mason’s 4,700-Square-Foot Studio Is Just As She Left It Curbed 3/1/2021 Wendy Goodman The artist Emily Masondied at age 87 in December 2019, but you can still feel the joyful presence of her work in her bright studio in the Flatiron District. She painted here for 40 years (in the winter months, anyway; from May to October, she worked at her country place in Vermont). Her paint-flecked smocks are still hanging on a hook, and the small footstools she perched on to study her work are in place. Her rocking chair, another vantage for studying her paintings, is near...

Mondia (https://Mondia.com/), a leading mobile technology company specialising in the marketing and distribution of digital content, today announced its second African launch of the ground-breaking time-based entertainment platform Monsooq, in Nigeria. This follows on the heels of the initial launch in South Africa. Monsooq is the first-of-its kind model which utilises time as the currency. Users pay only for the time they spend consuming content and are not required to take out any contracts or subscriptions. Entertainment anytime anywhere Monsooq’s unique time-based model allows consumers...

The Dance Centre will showcase online performances in the lead up to International Dance Day on April 29. “We would say it isn’t David and Goliath,” Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of the organization Uprose, told The Tyee. “It was David and five Goliaths.” But when Jamestown Properties withdrew its application for the Brooklyn rezoning this fall, effectively killing the project in the neighbourhood of Sunset Park, several things had become clear: the company had severely underestimated the power of a low-income neighbourhood determined to prevent housing from becoming unaf...

Northwestern Now Counting the many ways Northwestern experts are working to make the world a better place in 2021 Facing no shortage of challenges in 2020 — a global pandemic, protests around racial justice and a contentious presidential election — Northwestern scholars, researchers and experts have made great breakthroughs, contributions and discoveries. They’ve found a new way to clean up oil spills, uncovered the limits of free market capitalism in a society with significant inequality, revealed that inside every human is a small amount of star dust and worked to bring equity in educ...