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...Singles Travel Connections, which (though the name may connote otherwise) is not a dating service but, rather, a travel company that specializes in the solo holidaymaker. Customers are guaranteed single-room accommodation and enjoy a thoughtful mix of individual and group activity. Aboriginal rock-art sites and river-gorge cruises are some of the highlights of the Top End itinerary. See more at singlestravel.com.au...
More rewarding is to speculate about how art opened Monet to Japan. Printmaking is a more cumbersome and less forgiving process than painting, so Japanese artists developed a remarkable economy of expression. Utamaro, for instance, could with a mere line or two describe the course of a river or the fullness of a women's breast. Thus could Monet - in Impression, Sunrise (1873), the painting that gave Impressionism its name - conjure up a boat with a mere squiggle of the brush...
...Matisse would be in nirvana if his spirit could travel to Brisbane's revamped Queensland Art Gallery and neighboring new Gallery of Modern Art. Designed to face the river, creating a large lagoon of light inside, this $A100 million cultural complex succeeds by placing art at the service of the architecture, then ever so gently shifting our view of it. Nowhere can this be better seen than with the opening Asia-Pacific Triennial, where the arts of Oceania shine on center stage. Suva, Nuku'alofa, Apia and Avarua hardly announce themselves as capitals of the avant-garde...
...Singles Travel Connections, which (though the name may connote otherwise) is not a dating service but, rather, a travel company that specializes in the solo holidaymaker. Customers are guaranteed single-room accommodation and enjoy a thoughtful mix of individual and group activity. Aboriginal rock-art sites and river-gorge cruises are some of the highlights of the Top End itinerary. See more at singlestravel.com.au
...again, smiling and moving to the edge of her chair as she talked about her experiences in Iraq. Originally from Mission Viejo in southern California, McClung was an intense athlete with six Ironman competitions under her belt. She talked longingly of the runs she'd done along the Tigris River in Baghdad, where she was based before Ramadi. We chatted more about other small things. Soon enough it was time for us to go. I was off for a few days to Hurricane Point, a combat outpost in Ramadi just beyond the main base. After that McClung and I were...