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...Asian printmakers - with leading artists among them - are in the vanguard of rehabilitating the craft. Their base is a renovated former godown in Singapore: the seven-year-old Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI). It runs a course for artists in fine-art printmaking, and then sells their work to increasingly enthusiastic collectors, who during cash-strapped times are looking for quality alternatives to overpriced canvases. "We're an amphibian," says Emi Eu, the STPI's director. "We're a gallery and a learning institution at the same time." (Read "Painter Laureate...
...Near the entrance to the old port is the Museum Bahari, housed in a 17th century godown. Its elegantly proportioned halls that once stored spices now display antique ships from all over the archipelago, such as a sleek kora kora war boat from the Maluku Islands, and finely detailed models of modern freighters. In the market around the museum, visiting sailors stock up on rope, rain gear and pirated VCDs...
...family has lived inJordan since the 40s, initially in a refugee camp."The movie should have paid more attention to why[the terrorists] are doing this," he says, and"should have focused more attention on thesubhuman living conditions in the camps, the feelof injustice and disappointment...You have to godown to the roots of the problem...
...market went up by 25 percent, we don'twant the payout to go up by 25 percent the nextyear because the next year, the market might godown by 25 percent, and then you have to takemoney away," she said. "You want to have steadyincreases in payout for operations...
...part of our strategy," Doherty said."We feel like we have a slam-dunk case on theemployment discrimination, and we don't want to godown and lead the jury down a diversionary path...