Word: holbein
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...Tudor buzz, popping up on chat shows with a lute to promote Songs from the Labyrinth, a CD of tunes by 16th century composer John Dowland. And fat Henry hasn't been left out. A just-closed exhibit of work by the King's portraitist, Hans Holbein, was a hit for London's Tate Britain museum...
...Murakami is also obsessive about cost saving: the company reuses packing materials and canvases from failed works, and buys Japanese-made Holbein paints not because they are better than American-made Liquitex but because they are up to 30% cheaper. According to some of his employees, Murakami's pursuit of conveyor-belt efficiency can make him a ruthlessly demanding boss. "The word compromise is not in Murakami's vocabulary," says Tomohiro Hoshino, who does 3-D paintings at KaiKai Kiki. Still, Murakami's relentless focus on the business of making art pays rich dividends. He proudly notes that...
...play's first act, in which he successfully exhibits the complex issues and themes presented in Phelan's work. Great challenges are posed, clearly relating to an audience one woman's intricate mourning of her husband's death. She becomes obsessed with the images of death in Holbein's painting "The Ambassadors" and the Rodney King incident as they relate to her loss. Such challenges are met by McGee's decision to divide the woman's voice into three distinct roles: the grieving wife, the part of her consciousness obsessed with the painting and her socially active voice. By doing...
Paintings by Degas, Botticelli, Matisse, Giotto, Velasquez, Sargent and Holbein adorn medieval tapestries, which in turn cover the walls of the Northern European Hall, the Spanish Chapel the Chinese Loggia and the Dutch Drawing Room. Watercolors by Turner and masterpieces by Rembrandt peek out from behind neoclassical chaises lounges. Writings by Napoleon, T.S. Eliot and Sarah Bernhardt fill all nooks and crannies...
...many years Hariston was a Kott plaything. Hariston's stock had been sold by First Commerce Securities. The company was once called Western Allenbee Oil & Gas and later renamed Convoy Capital. Whatever the label, Hariston bore an odd resemblance to First Commerce's main piece of merchandise, DeVoe-Holbein International. It too boasted technology that could squeeze minerals from water, and one of the same scientists was involved: Irving W. DeVoe, a Canadian professor who had co-founded DeVoe-Holbein. In the early 1990s, a Hariston unit announced a project to extract minerals from mining waters in Butte, Montana...