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...The island of Syros is a microcosm of Greece’s maritime history....
...He regularly buys paintings by young artists and donates them to museums through his foundation. He has gifted more than 700, especially to institutions in Maine....
...He visited the Japanese rock garden at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and studied the pond and hill of Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Japanese garden too....
...The latest overnight air strikes by Russia’s invading forces have damaged a historic art museum in Odesa, where ports have been relentlessly targeted in a campaign to choke the country’s maritime grain exports...
...Now, the gallery reports, Yllanes’s works have sold to several US institutions, including Bowdoin College’s Museum of Art in Maine, which has acquired a wood engraving from 1944 and “Estaño Maldito” (1937...
...Colby College has completely reinvigorated this area and the Colby Art Museum is truly world-class; its collection includes works by Alex Katz, Winslow Homer and Georgia O’Keeffe....
...The canoe in “Drifting Toward Twilight” is a wooden sporting model, built in Maine in the 1940s and shipped to the artist from a seller in Florida....
...He pointed to progress made by Maine-based business Global Secure Shipping, which in September broke ground on a 15,000-square-foot factory to produce traceable containers, developed with funding from the...
...this landlocked “city of learning” (and by extension Britain as a whole) was shaped by the maritime trade in captive human beings....
...The National Maritime Museum in London might be the ideal place to indulge this fascination....
...Hung Shing Festival The island of Ap Lei Chau will be filled with Chinese opera performances, parades and dragon and lion dances during this religious festival in honour of Hung Shing, a fishermen and maritime...
...There is an excellent D-Day museum, a few churches, two prisons, a castle and some pubs....
...The museum curators tout the colonial primary education system, but ignore colonial rebellions, barely mention the mining, timber, railroad and maritime companies and resort to euphemisms and obfuscation...
...Outsourced cleaners working at the department responsible for industrial relations are now backing action, and strikes are forcing the British Museum to turn away visitors at the peak of the tourist season...
...But — assuming the recent legal hurdles thrown up against Trump standing in Colorado and Maine are overcome — his campaign against Joe Biden will be the nastiest presidential election in US history....
...This miniature maritime museum, or sea-chapel, is laden with souvenirs, family photographs, postcards and devotional objects....
...I am taking a staycation and using up my excess leave pottering around London’s museums and art galleries and having long lunches....
...But while it still enjoys outsized maritime-commercial clout and has orchestrated a few moments in the modern spotlight (Expo 1992, European Capital of Culture 2004), Genoa seems not to register meaningfully...
...And he is successful in highlighting the flimsy security of small museums and the inconsistent way in which art thefts are handled by the police and the judiciary....
...The PCS on Monday said staff at the British Museum would walk out for seven days over the Easter holidays, while employees at the British Library would strike for 14 days....
...After the tour, Hammond suggests I cross the street to the headquarters and museum of Wreaths Across America....
...(Check out FT Globetrotter’s Wimbledon series, with everything from a fiendish quiz to a tour of its museum here.)...
...the new museum’s name....
...Turning left to head back along South Wharf, you will pass the restored Polly Woodside clipper, the Maritime Heritage Museum and a row of restaurants and bars (The Boatbuilders Yard café is strong on vegetarian...
...Marsden moved frequently before settling in Maine in 1937, where he focused his work on the state’s landscapes and local life....
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