Gallery of Ancient Chinese Painters
We bring together in this virtual exhibition, some ancient Chinese painters, whose works are in the British Museum. Album of eleven leaves. Flower and insect. Painted in ink and colours on paper. Production date 18thC. Materials: paper. Technique: painted. Inscription note: 十一開冊頁 每開大小相同。(Total eleven leaves. Each leaf has the same dimensions). (Source: British Museum) […]
Elon Musk Starts With a Mass Layoff After Acquiring Twitter.
The internet and social media spaces have been agog with the news of Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, enforcing a mass layoff at the company. This is the first of Musk’s several plans to restructure the company. He had complained about “overpaying” to acquire the company and planned to cut a chunk of the company’s […]
Followers of the Wen School
Known for decades as the Wu School’s leader, Wen Zhengming (1470–1559) that he belonged to the group called “the three perfections” poetry, painting and calligraphy. Wen remained active as an artist until he died at age eighty-nine. By that time, several of his most outstanding followers had already passed away. Other artists, however, continued to […]
The Thatched Hut of Dreaming of an Immortal
上有天堂、下有蘇杭 Above, there are the halls of Heaven Below, there are Suzhou and Hangzhou (popular Chinese saying) Situated on flat fertile land between Lake Tai and the Yangzi River, Suzhou (present-day Jiangsu province) is one of the oldest cities in the Yangzi delta. Before the Ming dynasty (1369–1644), when it became a leading center of […]
Traditional Painting: The Gentleman in Retirement
Often hailed as the spiritual founder of the Wu School, the painter, poet, and calligrapher Shen Zhou (1427–1509) came from a well-connected lineage of gentleman artists who lived in the Suzhou suburb of Xiangcheng (located within the current of the “Three Perfections”, these genres were considered the highest expressions of Chinese literary culture during the […]
Patek Philippe, Rolex Lead Price Downturns
It is the last quarter of the year, and the market continues to shift across many industries including fashion and beauty. The prices of fashion accessories, particularly watches, are fluctuating. While some people will blame this trend on the general laws of seasonal supply and demand, it is also important to consider the administrative and […]
Spiral Stars Found, Providing a Window into the Early Universe
Nature likes spirals — from the whirlpool of a hurricane, to pinwheel-shaped protoplanetary disks around newborn stars, to the vast realms of spiral galaxies across our universe. Now astronomers are bemused to find young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy […]
Princess Anne Talks on 1974 Kidnap Attempt
During an interview with Michael Parkinson in the mid-1980s, Princess Anne and her then-husband Captain Mark Phillips were asked about the major security breach made on them in March 1974. When an armed man confronted them in on their way to Buckingham Palace on The Mall in London in an attempt to kidnap the Princess. […]
Old Footage: Queen Elizabeth II Reflects on Her life
Rare audio and footage of Queen Elizabeth II reflecting on her life, family and her service to the her country.
President Donald Trump At GOP Retreat In Philadelphia
Addressing members of Congress in Philadelphia on Thursday, Trump says “it’s nice to win, it’s been a while.” He launched into a riff that he used frequently on his postelection thank you tour to some of the battleground states he won in November. Trump portrayed Pennsylvania as “the one that got away” from Republicans in […]