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Meet the collector opening a James Turrell museum in the Andes
NEW YORK. Swiss art collector and vintner Donald Hess is building the first museum dedicated solely ...
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Film director to leave house and collection to nation
LONDON. Retired film director Michael Winner is to open his London house and art collection to ...
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Herzog & de Meuron to design new museum of modern art in Calcutta
LONDON. Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have been selected to design an ambitious new museum of ...
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Why the Guggenheim wont open a branch in Guadalajara
NEW YORK. The Guggenheim Foundations proposal to build a museum in Guadalajara has failed because ...
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The proposed new law is a nightmare for artists
<I>US Congress is currently debating legislation which will remove the penalty for copyright ...
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Authentication committee refused to give an opinion on my Basquiat, says collector
LONDON. Swedish entrepreneur and art collector Gerard De Geer has filed a complaint against the ...
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German museum under fire for ceding control of exhibitions to dealers and collectors
LONDON. Leipzigs Gallery of Contemporary Art (GfZK) is facing strong criticism for hosting a ...
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What is going on at the Ullens Center in Beijing?
BEIJING. The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (UCCA), a new gallery entirely funded by ...
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Cypriot wall paintings get HIV test
LONDON. A scientific technique generally used in testing for the HIV virus is being utilised for ...
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Why the private sector must be courted, not alienated
Most wealthy art collectors have some sort of relationship with one, if not several, public ...
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Opening: Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow
From Saturday 21, Phillips Collection, Washington
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Higher-Order Java Parallelism, Part 1: Parallel Strategies and the Callable Monad
Now that even budget desktop and laptop computers are shipping with multi-core processors, it’s more important than ever to design programs so that they can take advantage of parallel processing. If you’re already writing software in Erlang or Parallel Haskell, then lucky you. But if you’re writing in Java (and are unable or unwilling to take up Scala), you will need to get organized.
Categories: Software, Technology
Application Lifecycle Mismanagement
If there's one thing that the new development manager has, it's tenacity. Joshua has been maintaining his company's overly complex software for a while now, and found Dave's eagerness and dedication to learn admirable.
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Python: Writing a Compiler and Interpreter in 160 lines of code
Author talks about experience learning Python by writing a compiler and interpreter for a simple language.
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Grails Plugin For Hudson
I am pleased to announce that we have worked up a Grails plugin for Hudson. Hudson is a really slick continuous integration server. Check out their site for more info on the engine itself.
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Why Agile Product Planning Is Important
What happens when stakeholders require some longer term, multiple iteration estimations. Given a long list of priority features, how many of them will be completed 10 iterations out?
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A Service Locator for PHP5
A Service Locator pattern implementation for PHP5. Learn how this pattern can help decouple components to increase testability and flexibility. Code available for download.
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GWT Showcase - BRMS for JBoss Rules
With version 4 of JBoss Rules, you now get a powerful workbench plugin for Eclipse, support for Domain Specific Languages (DSL) that mimick natural language, and a web-based BRMS. With it you can deploy, roll back, and report on your rules.
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