Chinese Gem That Elevates Its Setting

Guangzhou Opera House Designed by Zaha Hadid GUANGZHOU, China — It says something about the state of architecture today that the most alluring opera house built anywhere in the world in decades is in a generic new business district at the outer edge of this city, has no resident company and a second-rate program. And because this is China, a country More...

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By lik@admin On Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
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Cy Twombly, Idiosyncratic Painter, Dies at 83

In a career that slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop Art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism, Mr. Twombly was a divisive artist More...

By lik@admin On Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
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Pandora Radio’s HTML5 redesign hands-on

Earlier this week, Pandora announced that it would finally be dropping its longtime support for Flash in favor of HTML5. The move is one piece of a big redesign for the site, one which will begin rolling out to More...