Category: Art
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L’Odyssée de Cartier. L’Odyssée de la Panthere
Cartier, King of Jewelers, prepares the launch via facebook of a short film that will express the 165 years of High Jewelry history. The emblematic panther, the Cartier’s icon since 1914, is the heroine of the three-and-a-half minute short movie. L’Odyssée de Cartier is the fantastical journey of the panther travelling trough dreams, past, present…
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Artprice’s Annual Art Market Report: Art sold better than at any other time in history
This year, Artprice’s annual art market report – based on 6.3 million auction results from 4,500 auction houses around the world focused particularly on China’s successful conquest of the global art market. In spite of the sword of Damocles hanging over the West, art in fact sold better in 2011 than at any other time…
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Higher level of social media engagement to win greater advertising revenues for Oscar
The Internet-tracking firm Bluefin Labs counted 3.4 million Oscar-related comments on Facebook and Twitter, up from 966,00 for the 2011 Academy Awards telecast. Those numbers are likely to be significant for Oscar producers, who could point to viewers’ higher level of social media engagement to win greater advertising revenues for next year’s show, says Reuters.…
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Il Successo nelle Mani
Manual work is suffering a crisis of vocation. This is happening due to poor fascination the artisans are able to exercise on boys & girls in the delicate moment of the choice of their career. Italian luxury association Altagamma Foundation initiated a project for the development and promotion of manual labor, called “Success on your…
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Gucci Museum in Florence: An Interview With Frida Giannini
Suzy Menkes at Gucci Museo Suzy Menkes, the fashion editor of The International Herald Tribune, speaks with Frida Giannini, the creative director of Gucci, as it celebrates its 90th anniversary with the new museum in Florence (inaugurated in September 2011). Inside the sumptuous confines of the 14th-century Palazzo della Mercanzia, Gucci‘s famed “bamboo” handbags owned…
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Best Student cities in 2012
Best places to study 2012 Paris topped the inaugural Best Student Cities table, which ranks cities according to measures taken from “public information, population sizes, number of educational establishments and their quality, as judged by the QS World University Rankings. London emerged as the world’s second best study city, followed by Boston, Melbourne, Vienna and…