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A new glow-in-the-dark bike lane gets charged by the sun

Edit Business Insider 12 Oct 2016
Strabag. The Polish town of Lidzbark Warminski has a unique new way of constructing bike lanes. It makes them glow in the dark. The town's first luminous lane was completed September 28 ... They can radiate different colors, but according to CityLab, the town chose blue to match the lakes nearby ... That lane, called the "Van Gogh-Roosegaarde" cycle avenue, was inspired by the famous painter's most recognizable piece, "The Starry Night." ... ....

California Mosaic House a Romantic Homage to Two Artists

Edit Voa News 12 Oct 2016
The Mosaic Tile House in Venice stands as a monument to two decades of artistic collaboration between Cheri Pann and husband Gonzalo Duran. "It's tchotchke heaven," Pann, 76, told Reuters about her kaleidoscopic bungalow. "It's turned out to be an homage to putting everything possible into cement." ... Pann was encouraged by family and professors to pursue accounting, but at age 18 she went to a Van Gogh show and never looked back ... ....

Music legend Iggy Pop and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch to appear at Detroit Institute of Arts’ Detroit Film Theatre’s advance screening of “Gimme Danger" (DIA - Detroit Institute of Arts)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Oct 2016
(Source. DIA - Detroit Institute of Arts) (Detroit)-The Detroit Institute of Arts' (DIA) Detroit Film Theatre (DFT) presents an advance screening of renowned director Jim Jarmusch's new documentary 'Gimme Danger,' an Amazon Studios/Magnolia Pictures release, on Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m ... Advance tickets are strongly recommended ... 28-30 and Nov. 4-6. Tickets for these showings beginning Oct ... From the first Van Gogh painting to enter a U.S....

'My nose is askew, my chin is formidable – it's me, all right' … a portrait of my mental health

Edit The Guardian 12 Oct 2016
Gail Porter, Ricky Hatton, Bill Oddie … in her portrait series Bipolar Picasso, Andrea Tyrimos explores our attitudes to mental illness. Mark Rice-Oxley joins the stars laying themselves bare in her studio. @markriceoxley69. It can be unsettling to be painted. The last person who tried to paint me was my daughter. She missed out my mouth ... I’m not an art historian, but you don’t need to be to know that Caravaggio and Van Gogh were not well....

Virtual Reality to support museum visits: Vidiemme takes part to the XII Lubec edition (Vidiemme Consulting Srl)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Oct 2016
(Source. Vidiemme Consulting Srl) ... The journey starts in a museum in which the interaction with artworks is extremely high. some paintings like 'Guernica' by Pablo Picasso, 'Lovers' by Renè Magritte becomes alive revealing the story behind the paintings, 'Starring night' by Vincent Van Gogh becomes a stream of colours and lights and 'Dama con l'ermellino' by Leonardo da Vinci becomes real with a detailed and accurate description ... (noodl....

Read, watch, wear: Your guide to modern Israel in one box

Edit The Miami Herald 12 Oct 2016
The vision began - as so many fine ideas do - with wine ... This was no simple undertaking ... "My first sip rolled around on my tongue, with a complex, heady, beautiful bouquet." ... The seed was planted ... "I had the definite thought it would be a good thing to have somebody who didn't have any perspective on Israel," says Arison, who's also the author of "Travels with Van Gogh and the Impressionists ... ......

Innovation in Medical and Surgical Eye Care Takes Center Stage at AAO 2016 (AAO - American Academy of Ophthalmology)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Oct 2016
(Source. AAO - American Academy of Ophthalmology). Advances in treatment, new practice management strategies highlights of global ophthalmology conference ... 14-18 at McCormick Place ... Highlights include. ... Dr ... Julian D ... Sampson Lecture ... Col ... Mellon Senior Conservation Scientist with The Art Institute of Chicago will discuss how she used technology such as Macro X-ray Fluorescence Spectometry to uncover the original color of Van Gogh's bedroom....

Van Gogh Vodka Introduces Bold New Packaging for the US Market

Edit PR Newswire 11 Oct 2016
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Van Gogh Vodka is excited to debut its bold new packaging. Designed to reflect the Expressionist spirit of the product, the rebranded Van Gogh is. The Art of Vodka. To animate the brand's irrevocable connection to art as well as the ... ....

Poland Tests a Self-Sufficient, Glow-in-the-Dark Bike Path

Edit CityLab 11 Oct 2016
It’s about 6 feet wide and 330 feet long and cost roughly $31,000. The inspiration was a similar glowing bike lane in the Netherlands designed by Daan Roosegaarde as a homage to van Gogh’s "The Starry Night."Strabag ... The material... is able to give light for more than 10 hours....

Why Broadway wasn’t William Shatner’s final frontier

Edit New York Post 11 Oct 2016
Before he became a television superstar, William Shatner was a classically trained actor who, many of his theater pals believed, had the chops to play Hamlet, Macbeth and, one day, King Lear ... Kirk. And that’s fine by Shatner ... ... ... “He was doing his coffee commercials [for Maxwell House], and I, being a purist, had to ask this great actor, ‘Coffee commercials? Why?’ And he pointed to a van Gogh and said, ‘That’s why.’ And I understood.” ... ....

See art from 17th century France in ‘Brothers Le Nain’

Edit The Mercury News 11 Oct 2016
When a museum is modeled after a neoclassical building in Paris, with the words “Honneur et Patrie” above the entrance, you’d expect it eventually would offer an exhibit by every major French painter, and then some ... 29 ... The depictions of men and boys playing cards (often with a deceitful player revealed) might be illustrations for a stage melodrama; “The Peasant Family” looks forward to Van Gogh’s dark, intimate studies ... Through. Jan....

Wendi Deng Murdoch on Rupert, Ivanka Trump and her film, Sky Ladder

Edit The Guardian 11 Oct 2016
She explains why she is friendly with her ex and with Donald’s daughter – and why she made a documentary about fireworks artist Cai Guo-Qiang. @HadleyFreeman ... C’mon, you remember Wendi Murdoch. Rupert’s ex-wife ... The one before – the fiercer one ... Twitter ... Sky Ladder ... Cai is dressed just as I would expect of an artist, by which I mean he is dressed a little like Vincent van Gogh, with a loose tweedy jacket, a simple jumper and loose trousers....

Mumbai's Changing, One Station At A Time Through Public Art

Edit NDTV 10 Oct 2016
There's van Gogh and a Monet, Harry Potter and even Mumbai's famous six sigma dabbawalas - all sharing the same space. And it's not in a museum but on Mumbai's railway stations. The canvas has come... ....
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