Yevgen Nikiforov documents more than 1,000 mosaics and other monumental public artworks in Decommunized: Ukrainian Soviet Mosaics.
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Mosaics recently discovered in the former Roman city known as Ucetia in France Mosaics recently discovered in the former Roman city known as Ucetia in France Mosaics recently discovered in the former Roman city known as Ucetia in France Mosaics recently discovered in the former Roman city known as Ucetia in France
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Bennett is spearheading a longterm project to conserve and exhibit the mosaics, called Antioch Reclaimed: Ancient Mosaics at the MFA.
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Yevgen Nikiforov 1/2000 Yevgen Nikiforov documents more than 21953,21991 mosaics and other monumental public artworks in his book Decommunized: Ukrainian Soviet Mosaics.
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The result of Nikiforov's diligent search is Decommunized: Ukrainian Soviet Mosaics, the first comprehensive photographic study of Soviet monumental mosaics in Ukraine, including the territories of Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk (Nikiforov commissioned local photographers to photograph six mosaics in the latter two states).
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Most importantly, the mosaics have to go places where they'll be seen, so Bachor is always looking for opportunities to travel and bring his mosaics to new places.
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We are pretty sure there was a local workshop, due to similarities with the mosaics at Wadi Hamam (another synagogue nearby), but it is also possible according to my mosaics specialist Dr. Karen Britt, that some of our mosaics (in particular the elephant mosaic) were made by non-local artists.
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Joseph & Sons can transform normal walls into artistic mosaics.
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While stained glass windows may be the Tiffany's most widely known work, the company's contributions to early 20th-century design stretch from the architectural mosaics featured in Tiffany's Glass Mosaics to silver bookbinding.
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A man runs past monumental mosaics at Pyongyang film studios.
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We're already in carpet, rugs, mats, tile, mosaics, and paint.
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As monumental mosaics, as landscapes of metallic bits and bobs?
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Wooden sculptures and colorful mosaics decorated the new town center.
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His Trochumetrics series features intricate mosaics of tessellating stars and hexagons.
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Here, you can see one of the collective's amazing mosaics (left).
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VICE: What inspired you to start using mosaics in your paintings?
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And many are filled with art, like sculptures and colorful mosaics.
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The varied mosaics and murals sometimes measure over 100 feet long.
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Herculaneum also boasted public bathhouses, divided by gender with stunning mosaics.
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The system contains beautiful mosaics, like these ones at Zoloti Vorota.
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Humans today are mosaics, our genomes rich tapestries of interwoven ancestries.
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Hernandez's mosaics at the station are translated from her pastel work.
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The result was a mix of mosaics, graffiti, Broadway Playbills and more.
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Until more data emerges, many fertility doctors remain unwilling to transfer mosaics.
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The abandoned platform, and the suggestion of ornate mosaics, was just visible.
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The arched vestibule has onyx walls, Greek key mosaics and classical statuary.
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The cost of all these grand chandeliers, cavernous platforms, and intricate mosaics?
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The screen blinked pixel mosaics as it woke from its long sleep.
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In this respect they are akin to cave paintings or medieval mosaics.
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The Penn Museum in Philadelphia is showing checkerboard pebble mosaics found near Ankara, Turkey, in "The Golden Age of King Midas," and mosaics of intertwined sea creatures are on view in "Pompeii," at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art.
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Teams of artisans created stunning mosaics in workshops in the late Roman world.
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You can go to Sicily, to Kamarina, you can see the actual mosaics.
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When murals and mosaics are endangered, he helps transfer them to new homes.
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The Fisher Building arcade and its ceiling, which features intricate frescoes and mosaics.
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Often they look like mosaics of other species, carrying remarkable combinations of traits.
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Some of these mosaics may have been the result of interbreeding between species.
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Its interior is covered in golden trimmings and intricate mosaics devoted to her.
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Cancer offered the first clear evidence that humans, like plants, could become mosaics.
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But the big difference is that with mosaics you know the wanted result.
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Animals can also develop as mosaics, with some cells genetically different from others.
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The results are unclear, but Al-Hadid's new mosaics keep the dream alive.
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The collection of mosaics housed in a 19th-century palace will leave you breathless.
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Some, like the one above, are made of acrylic and look more like mosaics.
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Comparison of speeds between Sentinel-1 image mosaics in early and late June 2017.
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Entire portions of tile mosaics and columns from Herod's time are still in place.
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He created sculptures, mosaics, paintings, writings, and collages, and gathered thousands of recycled objects.
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In comparison, the mosaics buried at MFA are "in generally good condition," Bennett said.
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Every turn of a corner brought new mosaics, waterfalls and sculptures of imaginary animals.
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They snapped selfies in front of colorful mosaics lining the walls of the stations.
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The reception area has a marble floor, granite columns and painted Venetian-style mosaics.
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And no, yarn mosaics slung on fences in Bushwick will never count as real art.
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The massive lump of decaying sewage sits alongside ancient Roman mosaics and priceless medieval altarpieces.
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Artists have so far come up with murals, mosaics, sculptures, graffiti and even live performances.
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Fabulous wealth makes anything possible including outfitting palaces with looted sculpture, mosaics and architectural elements.
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An army of artists and artisans filled the place with murals, mosaics, and baroque furniture.
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And a word of warning: for large-scale, intricate mosaics, it isn't a weekend job.
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A secret history is truly hidden in the mosaics of our genomes, but caveat emptor.
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Inside Pakhtakor ("Cotton Worker") Station, above, the walls are adorned with mosaics representing cotton capsules.
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Dr. Walsh and his colleagues have discovered intricate mosaics in the brains of healthy people.
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Another scene saw the So players tap out rhythmic mosaics on Russian sniper rifle components.
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The art, no way around it, is beautiful, accessible, and indigenous, especially the giant Chuck Close mosaics of New York artists like Lou Reed, Cindy Sherman, and Philip Glass (and himself) and the life-size Vik Muniz mosaics of regular New Yorkers (and himself).
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A series of mosaics created between 21970 and 21978 cover 1970-225 Peremohy Avenue in Kiev.
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A series of mosaics created between 1968 and 1980 cover 17-27 Peremohy Avenue in Kiev.
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CULTURE UKRAINE'S DIZZYING, HYPER-INTRICATE MOSAICS Through Soviet-era propaganda art, vestiges of communism still remain.
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Each of the home's five bathrooms is decorated in colorful mosaics (made in Italy of course).
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"Her mosaics remind us that a cloudy sky may be ephemeral but there is always hope."
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In their place, we can look to contemporary mosaics or to coins produced by these cultures.
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The plaza is filled with insignia, some carved into the arch, others depicted in mosaics underneath.
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Each station has a permanent installation of mosaics or ceramic tile work by a prominent artist.
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Nature creates its mosaics from cells instead of tiles, in a rainbow of different genetic profiles.
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He added that Turkey would provide the university with exact replicas of the mosaics to display.
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The walls are covered in protest art ranging from Post-it mosaics to life-size installations.
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A. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Arts and Design Program oversees the selection and installation of mosaics.
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However, artist Louis Comfort Tiffany also excelled a variety of other art forms, including stunning glass mosaics.
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ANCIENT SYNAGOGUE MOSAIC DEPICTS BLOODY JEWISH LEGEND The first mosaics at the site were discovered in 2012.
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My career spans four decades as a full time artist and includes sculpture, painting, mosaics, and drawings.
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One of the intriguing mosaics comes from the informally named Sputnik Planum — plains in Pluto's icy heart.
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The mirror mosaics also reappeared on the walls of the white show space within the Musee Rodin.
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Antiques In the 1950s, California corporate executives wrapped suburban banks in murals and mosaics to attract customers.
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Soon, image captures will construct Mosaics of the three billion fields of vision Corresponding to each heartbeat.
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He abandons distinct divisions between land and sky for kaleidoscopic mosaics of suggestive textures and shifting viewpoints.
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Chimeras are typically mosaics in which each organ is a mixture of the host and donor cells.
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Kievskaya, one of my favorites, has chandeliers and glittering mosaics with scenes from Ukrainian and Russian history.
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Whereas Virginia Rose Torrence embeds fruit rinds into her mosaics, Henry James Haver Crissman sells functional pottery.
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The mosaics climb the wall, and each table is adorned with a different design, chiseled by Mr. Sayed.
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The studio is currently showing everything from mosaics to stained glass, collage, mixed media, sculpture, and wood work.
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When it comes to other Soviet monuments or mosaics, people usually have to reflect for a few seconds.
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"The figures, many similar to the figures in the earlier mosaics, comprise fish and winged creatures," explained Gorzalczany.
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The Lod mosaics, however, do not depict any human figures that are present in the Mount Zion mosaic.
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They've been found outside of ancient Egyptian gravesites, as massive stone structures in Scandinavia, and in Roman mosaics.
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"There's no renewal — the river doesn't move gravel around and doesn't create new mosaics of habitat," he said.
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I am not an expert in American art — I usually go straight to the ancient mosaics at WAM.
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The main concern is making sure they're oriented the right way, especially when fitting them together in mosaics.
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Mosaics, some with 24-karat gold accents or hand-crafted patterns, prove an antidote to silent white walls.
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There are kaleidoscopic mosaics of Renaissance-esque floral bouquets, geometric patterns, the giant face of young Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Two mosaics are above the mezzanine stairs leading to the southbound platform where two more pieces are featured.
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Furthermore, archaeologists found mosaics, and one of them depicted — lo and behold — a palm tree laden with dates!
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The town comes complete with fountains, canals, and mosaics, as well as "local" shops like Gucci and Prada.
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Probably, but at least he was running his fingers along the newest, cleanest subway mosaics in the city.
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Each piece of the intricate mosaics on the Great Mosque's Pavilion of the Treasury, for instance, is captured.
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Eighteen elaborate mosaics and murals cover the facade of Dabls's century-old row house and the surrounding buildings.
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People would make mosaics and animations, discuss the rocks they were seeing, and what the science team was doing.
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Here we are: Villa Romana del Casale, the extraordinary Sicilian palace and UNESCO World Heritage Site packed with mosaics.
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Gilded mosaics of birds and deities from a Dallas bank have been moved to the Joule hotel in Dallas.
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The stations are filled with ornate chandeliers, large marble columns, mosaics, and grand statues representative of the Soviet era.
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Last year, the Nobel Prize redefined literature to include the journalism of Svetlana Alexievich: remarkable mosaics of human stories.
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With intricate mosaics, six different grout colors might be used, almost like a painting on the tile, she said.
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In the 1960s museum officials buried the mosaics as a mysterious storage solution that puzzles staff to this day.
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According to the Tampa Bay Times, Shepherd found documentation on the buried mosaics, but these records offered minimal information.
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This year, the excavations on Via del Vesuvio included two houses "with extraordinary mosaics and frescoes," Mr. Osanna said.
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He's always done it, and 20 years after he first entered into politics, he's still there building these mosaics.
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The floors are tiled, some smooth and glossy, others with tiny metallic mosaics — often varying in the same room.
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Video pornography in Japan has often used digital mosaics to obscure genitalia in sex scenes to avoid obscenity charges.
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A staircase with risers inlaid with patterned mosaics ascends to the second level, where there are two bedroom suites.
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Inside, Moroccan flourishes remain intact throughout three connected rooms with arched doorways and mosaics of colorful tiles above banquettes.
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On the wall opposite the phone ads, glass mosaics of happy people are set into the tunnel's marble tiles.
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Some words become little areas of pain, intensified or attenuated by the mosaics within which they are then dropped.
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A prime example is 151 Dong Khoi Street, a colonial-era building with yellow concrete walls and tiled wall mosaics.
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Hyperuniformity gives birds the best of both worlds: Five cone types, arranged in near-uniform mosaics, provide phenomenal color resolution.
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As for the pattern of five-color mosaics in birds' eyes, termed "multihyperuniform," it is, so far, unique in nature.
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Developed by the Cosmati family during the 229th and 13th centuries, the mosaics are made of inlaid marble and glass.
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Your brain's ability to collect, connect, and create mosaics from these milliseconds-long impressions is the basis of every memory.
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On streets across the country, the faces of industrious peasants, inventive engineers, and pioneering astronauts still beam from propaganda mosaics.
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In the Met, Byzantine mosaics, medieval sculptures, paintings and tapestries become works of art, detached from their original sacred sites.
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You can see this sort of pattern in the gorgeous medieval mosaics of the Alhambra Palace in Spain, for instance.
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More than 20,000 people lived on a dot 5km long by 1.5km wide; some had prosperous homes with superb mosaics.
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Loosely adopting the compositional qualities of Soviet mosaics, she creates brightly colored abstractions on Eastern and Western forms of spirituality.
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With DWA, Comcast adds another piece to what has become one of the biggest and broadest mosaics in modern media.
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Ironically, the excavation was made prior to construction of a museum to showcase other ancient mosaics found at the site.
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The newly discovered mosaics frame two men and two women in four separate squares within a border of repeating motifs.
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The interior is a vast open space criss-crossed by bridges and walkways that overlook the mosaics and ruins below.
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I use the pieces and make it for mosaics, but this is actually 99% of what glass is used for.
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They are visible on flat screens throughout the vast broadcast operations center — mosaics of sports that are being played simultaneously.
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We visited several of these ubiquitous and elegant multidomed churches, each with a covetable collection of frescoes, icons and mosaics.
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He wrote a song on the topic of martyrs, whose faces adorn numerous Tehran buildings, fountains, and street corner mosaics.
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The museum has since set up an outdoor conservation lab, where visitors can witness the restoration of all five mosaics.
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Witches' broom and bud sports eventually came to be known as mosaics, after the artworks made up of tiny tiles.
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Political posters, ancient mosaics, and indigenous textiles and fashion mingle here, fused by pride in being and joy in making.
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Marvel at the ornate interior of the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, which is covered in colorful mosaics.
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The artist Zsolt Paul Golenya is the mastermind behind these intricate designs, which range from mosaics to creative puzzle floors.
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This exhibition includes around 200 artworks and artifacts from the preserved town, including mosaics, bronze statues, frescoes and household items. Splore
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Bois refers to the work inspired by the mosaics as "oblique" lineation that traces "inner contours," no longer conforming to naturalism.
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Joseph Saliba was nine when his father sent him to work for a friend in Damascus who restored wood and mosaics.
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" He added: "This is causing irreparable harm, especially — when it dries out — in the lower section of the mosaics and tiling.
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When it opens in 2020, its forlorn cells will be gone and its terra-cotta facade and colorful wall mosaics restored.
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"As a matter of fact, relatively few mosaics depict overly Communist symbols marked for destruction under the current law," Nikiforov writes.
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In a country filled with historic churches, frescoes, mosaics, and sculptures, the earthquake has also damaged many architectural and artistic treasures.
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Glass mosaics certainly have the power to stun, especially after two decades of shelter magazine spreads of spare, midcentury modern interiors.
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Burying ancient mosaics might seem like a less-than-ideal storage option, but this pair could have suffered a worse fate.
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The canvases are collaged with fragments from previous paintings, patterned like bright mosaics; the busy, tiled compositions resemble proto-Tumblr pages.
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Nando's restaurants, located in 24 countries, showcase a selection of the pieces, from furniture and light fittings to paintings and mosaics.
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One of his favorite places in Rome is the Basilica di San Clemente, a twelfth-century structure with Byzantine-style mosaics.
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Complete with marble floors, mosaics, and frescoes, the Hadrian-era house was found nearly 40 feet beneath the Amba Aradam station.
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A central focus of The Joule hotel is its own unique style, helpfully accentuated by a range of art and mosaics.
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The Huqoq mosaics will likely help to change the way we understand Jewish art of the late Roman and early Byzantine periods.
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Yevgen Nikiforov 5/93 "The strongest monumentalist artists did not merely illustrate what the party told them in these mosaics," he says.
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Even when presented with sculpture, mosaics, frescoes, DNA analysis, and texts that speak to a diverse Mediterranean, many wish to deny it.
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The Pakhtakor Station's columns resemble foliage and it has mosaics of cotton balls in a reference to the country's cotton picking industry.
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Often unremarked or dismissed as state propaganda, Ukraine's Soviet-era mosaics are also artworks in themselves that speak to a complex history.
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For three years, photographer Yevgen Nikiforov traveled across Ukraine with an ambitious mission: document as many surviving Soviet-era mosaics as possible.
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First opened in the 1960s when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, it is filled with chandeliers, mosaics, and colorful stone.
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Conservators recently unearthed two ancient mosaics, originally excavated from the ancient city of Antioch, that the museum had acquired in the 1960s.
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The 72nd Street B/C subway station has reopened, inaugurated with a series of six ethereal ceramic mosaics designed by Yoko Ono.
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Always keenly attuned to sign culture and the patterns that are part of the background of our daily life, Westfall discovered Cosmatesque mosaics.
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But while the company likes to emphasize the awesomeness of its audio "mosaics," there is another, more mundane, explanation for its success: cars.
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In 1956, when she was 3003 years old, Tressa Prisbrey began transforming her modest lot into a wonderland of shimmering glass and mosaics.
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Whitten's mosaics often catch flecks of dirt or whatever in them, and he also kept casting random trinkets and debris throughout his career.
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Greek marble gives way to the intricately decorated interiors of Arab-Norman palaces, where Byzantine mosaics (pictured) are juxtaposed with carved wooden ceilings.
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The jewelry house also sponsored the 2015 restoration of ancient mosaics in the Baths of Caracalla (which inspired the jewelry collection "Divas' Dream").
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Recently, Bachor traveled to Detroit and Philadelphia to install a few mosaics in locations that were scouted by local volunteers before his arrival.
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Her stylized compositions, comprised of geometric patches of lucid color, recalling tile mosaics, portray domestic interiors eerily bereft of any signs of life.
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The answer, again, was no: As for brain structure, the differences created mosaics of feminine and masculine personality traits, attitudes, interests, and behaviors.
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The project took two years and yielded stained-glass windows, decorative metalwork, painted murals, elaborate mosaics and carved and painted doors and beams.
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Visitors can enjoy a bagel breakfast and birthday cake, as well as create a huge birthday card and their own subway-style mosaics.
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Adding to the drama of the chanting, which at times took on a deep baritone, was the cathedral's Byzantine mosaics and religious iconography.
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Heavily discounted Waterworks porcelain and stone ceramic mosaics are available at Luxury Bath for Less for as little at $12.50 per square foot.
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With mosaics, wood paneling and fabric stretched across the ceiling to resemble stained glass, there's a California-in-the-'70s, Cielo Drive vibe.
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Much as with last year's new subway station — 34th Street–Hudson Yards, featuring futuristic art by Xenobia Bailey — the focus is on mosaics.
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But the ghostly shadows of that long-demolished pride of New York City are preserved in the mosaics of artist Diana Al-Hadid.
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Created under Stalin, its grand arched hallways, cinematic lighting and exquisite mosaics also amounted to an immersive art experience — albeit to more propagandistic ends.
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But the Maduro government sowed confusion soon after the white paper's release by announcing an abrupt switch to the NEM Mosaics blockchain platform instead.
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Each room is used for different art practices: one for engravings, one for sculpture, one for mosaics and one for kintsugi and restoration work.
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She's surrounded by kaleidoscopic mosaics of glass, while an overturned clay pot reading "LOOK HERE" seems to give birth to an incomprehensibly massive plant.
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Pier 220: Up to 250% off all dining seating, canvas wall art, ottomans, desks, bookshelves, mosaics, and mother-of-pearl and capiz shell décor.
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Some of this can be attributed to budget concerns and the fact that I don't have a decorator assembling ceramic mosaics in every room.
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Havana is dotted with colorful state-sanctioned murals and projects like Fusterlandia, a neighborhood decorated with mosaics reminiscent of Catalan modernist architect Antoni Gaudi.
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In Chicago, Jim Bachor is known for beautifying the city's dilapidated streets by filling its concrete craters with beautifully crafted mosaics of flower bouquets.
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The quirky video (which features shots of ancient sculptures and mosaics) also includes both tracks from U's new 12", "Friendly Ghost" and "Ascension Hymn.
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Archaeologists have unearthed a beautifully preserved sets of mosaics from the ancient Roman city of Ucetia, which was previously only known by its name.
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Figures like Justice Sonia Sotomayor, James Baldwin, and Maya Angelou's take center stage in the artist's new MTA mosaics for the 167th Street station.
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Opened in 1935, it was originally named after Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin and is still adorned with Soviet mosaics, marble statues and stained glass.
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The mosaics that envelop the walls on the lower part of the saint's shrine were paid for by a Philippine foundation dedicated to him.
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While Gaspar has a solo practice, she's also been participating in the creation of large-scale public murals and mosaics around Chicago since 2004.
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Like much of the room's details, they are iridescent, playing with light that streams through the artist's colored glass mosaics in high-positioned windows.
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Many of the mosaics are still in situ; for example, the freestanding 1914 Swan Memorial in the Bronx's Woodlawn Cemetery that was recently restored.
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A number of mosaics from Antioch and elsewhere in the ancient world depict the mythical story of the drinking contest between Dionysus and Heracles.
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Related: An Artist Is Turning Spit into Crystals Stunning Micro-Crystals Are Nature's Stained Glass Mosaics Creating The Microscopic Art Of Jon Hopkins' Immunity
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Read the story Ukraine's Soviet-era mosaics depict an idealized, futuristic vision of life before independence—no matter how far from reality the truth fell.
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In 2012, during excavations at the site's synagogue, rich polychromatic mosaics that vividly depict various scenes from the Hebrew Bible began to come to light.
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The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida, excavated 20183,000-year old Antioch mosaics buried near the museum's sculpture garden by staff in 1989.
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The dig uncovered floors decorated with vast mosaics depicting birds, fruit and plants, colorful frescoes, and a curious Greek inscription that has baffled the researchers.
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Her elegant dances, with their sleekly patterned steps — repeated and resequenced like mathematical equations — focus on structure and form to create sophisticated mosaics of movement.
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The addition of lowbrow comic book explosions around the highbrow Renaissance figure heightens her eminence, like the gold surrounding biblical mosaics in the Hagia Sophia.
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He also executed the painted murals and mosaics throughout the home and carved the columns supporting the front porch, imitating folk carvings from Central Europe.
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Walls are covered in tile mosaics of deer heads, fireplaces and badminton rackets, and a painting of a digitized fox hunt hangs behind the bar.
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If the streets are too beat up, his mosaics may fall apart or the street may end up getting repaved soon after he installs them.
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While working on another project on Ukrainian artworks, he realized that little high-quality documentation existed of the Soviet-era mosaics in Kyiv, his hometown.
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She gazed through microscopes at tiny opalescent mosaics made from butterfly wings, stone-fruit pits carved into sculptures, and statues on the heads of pins.
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More a coincidence of timing than a concerted effort, the Bishop's Basilica, which will house some 21,000 square feet of Roman mosaics, opens this fall.
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A powerful testimony to this is the Chora Church, a medieval Byzantine church in Istanbul, which features beautiful mosaics that reflect themes from the Protevangelium.
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While exquisite Roman mosaics such as those discovered in Vienne are found occasionally, they are rarely set within such vast and well-preserved urban complexes.
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The original tourists were the Romans, who rowed over, built a reputed dozen imperial palaces and filled all the best grottoes with statuary and mosaics.
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As Whelan and others have noted, the dress of the "Vandal" mosaics likely demonstrates a common court costume adopted by Romano-Africans under Vandal rule.
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Remains of an Assyrian winged bull statue, some carved stone coffins, mosaics and two black blocks with Islamic calligraphy are just about all that's left.
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On the watch side, Piaget has been increasing its collaborations with artisans, bringing out collections with micro-mosaics, feathers and other unusual craftsmanship on dials.
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In Florence, he commissioned a pietre dure table, made with a secretive technique involving a wheel-driven machine that shaped semiprecious stones for inlaid mosaics.
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The Clinton Hill Co-ops were built for Navy Yard workers during World War II, and still bear maritime-themed tile mosaics over the doorways.
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The inside of the church features mosaics, stained glass, and more paintings of angels and saints than you can count on your hands and feet.
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Tiffany's Glass Mosaics opens at the Corning Museum of Glass (One Museum Way, Corning, New York) on May 20 and continues through January 7, 2018.
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These mosaics of shiny brown wings, furred with legs and antennae, depict some kind of roach reaper spreading the news of how quickly this insecticide kills.
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As with many Greek, Roman, and early Christian mosaics, labels and quotations worked together with an image to remind the viewer of the story or scripture.
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"I believe it will be one of the best mosaics ever made," Miró apparently said in 1977 after seeing the partially finished work in the studio.
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Through this testing, researchers discovered that around 20 percent of all embryos are mosaics, reports the New York Times, and that number increases with older mothers.
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Late antique churches such as Saint Sabina on Rome's Aventine Hill had opus sectile mosaics inlaid within it, but then again, so did many rich villas.
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You wanted the Times to run a three-part story about you, that you meditate and are a passionate kayaker and collect 14th-century Islamic mosaics.
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The births are now provoking controversy among fertility experts about what to do if mosaics are the only viable embryos a couple has left after IVF.
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The second Turkish city to make this list, tourists head to Istanbul for its stunning mosques and mosaics as well as its modern skyscrapers and malls.
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Think of the iconic power of Byzantine mosaics, or the Gothic stained-glass and polychrome statuary that was offered as a vision of the heavenly Jerusalem.
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They're filled with mosaics by the Chicago-based artist Jim Bachor, who traveled from the Windy City to decorate some of our street eyesores with art.
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Voted one of the most beautiful towns in Italy last year, Amatrice is famous for its cento chiese, 100 churches filled with frescoes, mosaics, and sculptures.
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"Organized around long axial boulevards, the city is punctuated with gargantuan monuments and memorials, with statues and mosaics of the leaders everywhere you look," Wainwright said.
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Just partially destroyed in 79 CE, Jucundus's house today still retains some of its foundations, walls, and even details of decoration from mosaics to carved reliefs.
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From huge detailed floor mosaics with mythological scenes to intricate chiseled reliefs of battles and bacchanals, the rich colors and fine details awe in equal measure.
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Inspired by mosaics, Hamanaka prints each cut sheet of paper in a different gradated color, darker on the outer edge and lighter as it extends inward.
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Her signature mirror mosaics — inspired by Iran's Shiite shrines and the principles of Islamic geometry that reflect a cosmic order — form the core of the exhibition.
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Dozens of visitors were in front of the 22007 large mosaics by Chuck Close, taking photographs, identifying the people in the portraits and discussing the work.
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To the west, shantytowns cover the hilltops like grimy mosaics, looking down on the city center, a welter of unpainted concrete apartment towers and distressed public buildings.
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An entire chapter in Decommunized features on mosaics that are no longer in situ, from ones depicting the hammer and sickle to many portraits of Vladimir Lenin.
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Read about the town's history at the Museum of Industry before stopping by Cosecha to purchase local artists' driftwood sculptures, hand-painted greeting cards, and colorful mosaics.
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The mosaic was imported along with two other mosaics and 81 modern vases and declared as "ornamental art" and "ceramic tiles" with a total value of $2,199.
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The mosaics, dating to the 5th century CE, were beautifully preserved beneath the stone and dirt that had built up on the synagogue's floor over the centuries.
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When Southwest Key opened a 275-foot "walk of heroes," with mosaics of people considered important to the charity, the first was Mr. Garza, the federal official.
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Related: 'Biophilia' Book Preserves Nature's Beauty in Mosaics and Mandalas Bugs Get Bejeweled into Crystal Critters Explore the Dangers of a Carnivorous Garden in This Gripping Biolapse
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And, be sure not to miss the 2141 Art Deco capitol building, with its mosaics by muralist Hildreth Meiere and 29th-floor views of the Great Plains.
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You can finally sport your Roman toga or Egyptian ankh at Minipalais, where arches, columns, classical statues and mosaics of Pharaonic scenes decorate the vast outdoor terrace.
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Her "likes" include Byzantine mosaics, Roman villa murals, Sumerian idols and good liars; among her "hates" are Abstract Expressionism, Greek Hellenistic sculpture, Stephen Greene and good taste.
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In the 35 years since, as seen in the film, Farmanfarmaian has established herself as one of the most innovative artists working in mosaics and geometric patterns.
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On streets across the country, the faces of industrious peasants, inventive engineers, and pioneering astronauts still beam from propaganda mosaics adorning everything from apartment blocks to movie theaters.
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Our proprietary surveys are supportive of the ad environment through early 2Q, particularly at TTD and AMZN and we think can be a critical part of investor's mosaics.
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Works now offers a unique alternative to simply having your digital photos printed: it will instead turn them into elaborate mosaics hand-assembled from thousands of colored crayons.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A series of curious mosaics have emerged during archaeological excavations of rock tombs in Turkey, representing individual portraits of the long-deceased.
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Yet Demet Kara with the Hatay Archaeology Museum told the Hürriyet Daily News that the skeleton is "much more comprehensive" than most other mosaics found from its era.
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POST-IT 'LENNON WALLS' Mosaics of sticky notes containing messages of support for protesters have popped up across the territory from the Central financial district to Lantau island.
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He designed and installed tile mosaics of his illustrations at the Berlin Aquarium, such as this portrait of a gliding pteranodon with Japanese-inspired flourishes in the background.
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Related: A Provocateur Painter Subverts Race in Rainbow Hues These Complex Self-Portraits Will Challenge Your Assumptions About Race 90s Nostalgia and Racial Politics Collide in Multidimensional Mosaics
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Moreover ... I hope to have convinced you that people possess a mosaic of qualities, which don't add up consistently in any one person; different people have different mosaics.
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Recent books in the field have delved into Byzantine church mosaics in Greece and Turkey and Islamic mosaic floors at Hisham's Palace in Jericho in the West Bank.
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In the temple's lobby, Marciano described how he had carefully preserved the mosaics and the terrazzo floors but removed a fresco depicting the history of Freemasonry in California.
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Each year artist Jim Bachor launches a crowdfunding campaign to produce a series of colorful mosaics that he uses to fill in potholes on the streets of Chicago.
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ODYSSEY: JACK WHITTEN SCULPTURE, 1963-83 A career-spanning look at the totemic assemblages of a painter known for his large-scale mosaics of hand-poured acrylic tesserae.
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The works include Greek and Roman ceramics, marbles and bronzes, Roman mosaics, stained glass from medieval Europe and European paintings from the early Renaissance through the 19th century.
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Humans have always made and circulated smut, evidenced in the X-rated mosaics of Pompeii, that ancient Vegas, and the charged erotic novels and illustrations of the Renaissance.
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Instead, what's most common in both females and males are brains with "mosaics" of features, some of them more common in males and some more common in females.
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Elsewhere in the city, the Kalyan Minaret, part of a mosque complex that is covered with Uzbekistan's signature green-and-blue mosaics, was also spared by the Mongols.
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Under his imperium, churches sprouted across the Middle East, and ornate censers, candelabras, mosaics and goblets with gold crosses testify to the new prestige and security Christians enjoyed.
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From there, walk 13 minutes to Philadelphia's Magic Gardens (1020 South St.), a mind-bending, indoor/outdoor maze of mosaics created by the Philadelphia-based artist Isaiah Zagar.
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The city's historic Saint Mark's Basilica will need millions of euros of restoration work after its delicate marble mosaics were exposed to destructive salt water, its curator said.
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The large mosaics of Post-it notes calling for democracy have cropped up in underpasses, outside shopping centres, at bus stops and universities and outside the Legislative Council.
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Lying nearly 30 feet underground, the Hadrian-era barracks cover over 10,000 square feet, featuring 39 rooms divided by a corridor decorated with frescoes and floors boasting mosaics.
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In their place, the university will display replicas of the tiles, and the original mosaics will be exhibited at the Zeugma Mosaic Museum in the city of Gaziantep.
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RARE MOSAIC DEPICTING NOAH&aposS ARK DISCOVERED IN ANCIENT SYNAGOGUE Previous mosaics discovered at Huqoq include depictions of Samson, Noah's Ark and Jonah being swallowed by three successive fish.
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This self-described "underground museum" is the organization responsible for the public artworks — mosaics, sculptures, photo light boxes, and more — in hundreds of subway stations across New York City.
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When Romans wanted to depict other non-Roman peoples, whether on statues, reliefs, mosaics, or frescoes, they often used clothing as a way to visually signal differences between them.
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Fittingly, Arcomano's works are hanging beside two abstractions by Alison Hall, both made this year, based on the star-studded ceiling frescoes and floor mosaics of Giotto's Arena Chapel.
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Mosaics of Knowledge illustrates that the reading of these information technologies was often local rather than universal, and was not even always legible to many within the Roman Empire.
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The exhibition includes marble sculptures and mosaics from the city's temples, baths and cemeteries in an installation filled with the sounds of birds that inhabit the site today. Magical.
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"I told them a couple of little mosaics in the subway isn't going to change anything, what you need is an environment—and they went for it," he said.
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Check out the private spa's slimming machines and the lavish mosaics surrounding the indoor swimming pool, and remember the population that struggled to survive on rationed food and fuel.
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A consortium of universities, led by Dr. Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have uncovered several other striking mosaics over the past five seasons.
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Slides, as well as stairs, connect four levels of this arty fun house, which features an aquarium, collections of architectural artifacts, mosaics and taxidermy and a mini shoelace factory.
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Along the stops of the new Second Avenue extension are murals and mosaics, spectacles that declare themselves for stations that are supposed to be here 100 years from now.
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Ms. Harihareswara, a longtime transit enthusiast from Astoria, Queens, said she was struck by the diversity portrayed in the mosaics, including a mural of a gay couple holding hands.
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More than 75 artists, including Robert Kushner, Jacob Lawrence and Faith Ringgold, have had their works interpreted as mosaics under the program since it began in the mid-1980s.
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"The use of iridescent glass in Tiffany mosaics is striking — and a unique element to Tiffany mosaics rather than their famous windows — but it is especially symbolic in this work because the iridescent glass is only used on the angel and in areas of the composition that are the heavenly realm into which the soul is being led," Courtney Magill, lab manager for the Architectural Conservation Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, told Hyperallergic.
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Previously, he has contributed mosaics and murals to the city's international airport in addition to sculptures for civic buildings, museums, and other public spaces, from the commemorative to the amusing.
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Apparently, this will be no easy feat—there are mosaics on the church floor—but, if Santa's dead body is down there, it could be a huge boost to tourism.
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A site in Israel continues to turn up stunning polychromatic mosaics from the late Roman empire that challenge current notions of ancient Jewish aesthetics and the art of depicting scripture.
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Mosaics of Knowledge underscores the fact that there were no modern data graphics such as the scatterplot, pie chart, bar graph, timeline, or musical staff notation in the Roman world.
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In the video, walls of printers spit out paper to create different patterns, changing like a kaleidoscope on a bender before printing haphazard mosaics of the beach, sky, and earth.
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One of the other things you do, that brings the street into the mostly lily-white tradition of history painting, is use graffiti on the mosaics, which alludes to tagging.
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The 90-year-old has spent half a century creating mirrored mosaics, reverse-glass painting, and works on paper that pull from Persian interior decoration and 20th Century reductive abstraction.
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The structure's original mosaics and exterior sculptures have been largely left intact, and the opening last month marks the first time the building will be open to the general public.
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The large space holds three sections of the Berlin Wall, a fountain made with Venetian mosaics brought by German residents in the country, and stunning panoramic views of the city.
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These six new ceramic mosaics, cumulatively labeled "SKY" by the artist, comprise 20163 square feet altogether with visions of a blue, cloud-filled sky embedded with written messages of hope.
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The marquee attractions are the remarkably intact fourth- to sixth-century paleo-Christian mosaics of archangels, saints, religious officials and ancient buildings that decorate the lofty dome, glittering and sublime.
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Some of the samples came from loose tiles associated with Mixteca-style turquoise mosaics held by the Smithsonian Institution in the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian.
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In recent days, he urged his supporters to turn out Saturday to take down the so-called Lennon Walls across the city — vibrant mosaics of pro-democracy messages and artwork.
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"The church has a structure made of bricks which, drenched in salt water, deteriorate even to a height of several meters, endangering the mosaics that adorn the vaults," he said.
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"My great-grandfather wanted the subway to be attractive," said Ms. Benton as she pointed out design elements, like the handrails on the stairs, and the mosaics by Chuck Close.
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Carolina Guilleztegui Ibeth, the Akawanka owner's daughter in-law, later guided me around the hotel and its open-aired passageways enshrined with mosaics made by Eliza, her mother-in-law.
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Its roughness contrasts sharply with the smooth side altars made of white Kairuru marble, above which protrude detailed mosaics showing Mary, Chanel, Jesus, and St. Joseph with the baby Jesus.
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Complete with marble floors, mosaics, and frescoes, the Hadrian-era house was found 12 meters (~39 feet) under the Amba Aradam station, close to the Basilica of San Giovanni Laterano.
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As part of "Alchemy", an annual South Asian arts festival, London's Royal Festival Hall showcased some of the photographs, hand-painted pub signs, mosaics and stained glass windows to the public.
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From their Continental masters, the native aristocracy acquired a taste for baths, mosaics and central heating; the villas they built during the third and fourth centuries were tributes to Roman taste.
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Down below I saw the play river, the fountain and the mosaics in the driveway and, in the street, the kids kicking a ball, forcing cars to make way for them.
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At Naranj, the fanciest restaurant in the Old City, a lavish spread of traditional Syrian food around the marble fountains and mosaics came to the equivalent of about $10 per person.
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"We believe this shrine has not been damaged at all, but it is quite difficult to get to it as there are mosaics on the floor," Karabayram told the Daily Sabah.
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Pardo used nearly two million of them throughout the hotel's four stories, alternating between 18 vibrant hues (tangerine, sunflower yellow, arctic blue) to create abstract mosaics along the walls and floors.
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As workers headed into the first shift last Wednesday, they scurried past two giant Soviet mosaics celebrating their efforts as the rays of the rising sun glinted off scattered gold squares.
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The museum, in fact, owns five mosaics from the same site in modern-day Turkey, two of which have been on permanent display since the acquisition of the group in 1964.
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Five evening dresses from a recent collection of Dolce & Gabbana feature hand-sewn paillettes that cohere into icons of Mary and the saints, based on the mosaics of a Sicilian church.
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The rates included breakfast and dinner, served at the seafront restaurant with interiors featuring citrus-inspired fabrics, stones and Bisazza mosaics, and a few tables on the edge of the sea.
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Nonfiction LIFE ISN'T EVERYTHING Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of His Closest Friends By Ash Carter and Sam Kashner There are people who think of oral history as auditory mosaics.
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She and many other artists have received a big assist from Stephen Miotto, a master craftsman in mosaics who has a studio in Carmel, N.Y., and the Friuli region of Italy.
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But these mosaics, colorful and filled with figured scenes, attest to a rich visual culture as well as to the dynamism and diversity of Judaism in the Late Roman and Byzantine periods.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Christian Dior brought fun and a touch of fairytale to the start of Paris Fashion week with a collection featuring multi-colored dragon motifs and glittering bodices reminiscent of mosaics.
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Today, similar sticky note mosaics have popped up on walls across the territory amid rolling protests against the government's handling of a controversial extradition bill, highlighting how widespread the demonstrations have become.
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And since 1935, as a result of a grand diplomatic compromise by the secular Turkish republic, it became a museum, with both Christian mosaics and Islamic calligraphy exposed for visitors to admire.
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His great-uncle was well known for designing the Decorative Arts Museum in Berlin in a neo-Renaissance style, with mini-porticos on the windows and prominent mosaics on the exterior walls.
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Over the years, he figured out how to expand the panels to their proper size with tiny slits and pieces of poplar wood filler, so that the backs now resemble abstract mosaics.
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From the ceiling to the marble flooring, their walls shimmer with custom mosaics of Bisazza glass tiles, and they are crowned with sly crystal chandelier overhead showerheads, a line Mr. Wanders designed.
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The "Epiphany of Dionysus" is joined in Gods and Mortals by three mosaics that were found alongside it at the site; each features a different mask, perhaps representing the village's theatrical culture.
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The most uncanny sight here is "Natural History 4" (2016) by Wang Wei, who transplanted a sizable floor of mosaics, with patterns inspired by buildings in Dongguang, Guangzhou, into the quarry basin.
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The faithful kissed an icon, offered coins and walked from the room backward — so as not to turn their backs on the holy site — past radiant mosaics placed into the cliff walls.
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It was replaced in the 1950s with the current one, designed by the Roman architect Luigi Di Castro and decorated with mosaics by the artists Anna Maria Cesarini Sforza and Pietro Cascella.
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Many of its 29 stations are elaborately decorated with mosaics and chandeliers, the artwork reflecting a range of themes — from the Soviet space program to elements of local history, industry and agriculture.
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By mid-morning, dozens of Beijing supporters had started to tear down the large mosaics of colourful posted notes calling for democracy and denouncing perceived Chinese meddling in the former British colony.
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He has a large following of fans who use a Smartphone app, "Flash Invaders", to snap pictures of his mosaics if they're authentically his, rack up points and compete with other players.
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"It is so unusual because it has all sorts of quirks which you don't expect, and it has subjects on it that are completely alien to mosaics in this country," he said.
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The mosaics depict people dressed for winter and blowing into noisemakers, probably on their way to or from watching the ball drop on the street above the tunnel on New Year's Eve.
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Her best known work features mirrored mosaics built around geometric patterns, blending Sufism and Islamic art into three-dimensional glass works that recreate the movement and fluidity she saw in the mosque.
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The fashionable monocle-wearer painted the frenzied action of Parisian dance halls, where he mingled with the artistic avant-garde, and later brought his fluid geometry to frescoes and mosaics around Europe.
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Rather than being in decline, the Huqoq mosaics attest to an economically and artistically vibrant community proud of its religious identity despite the negative views of Judaism expressed by many early Christian authors.
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His tongue-in-cheek NYC Department of Archaeology (DoA) currently has over a dozen fragmented objects — except, rather than being aged and decaying, they're all his own handcrafted and intentionally cracked tile mosaics.
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The library had no proper drainage system, which meant rainwater leaked into the space, cracking floors and walls decorated with centuries-old mosaics; wooden beams had splintered; and the electrical systems needed updates.
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Over the past three decades it has been fuelled by the migration of more than 200m rural dwellers into cities, which has turned urban areas into mosaics of people from hugely varied backgrounds.
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All processing is done locally on the device so expect your iPhone hardware to heat up a little as you play around with remixing videos as mosaics or Munches or manga-style cartoons.
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Coppola started the project when the stations were being renovated, and while many of the original features survive like the beaver mosaics at Astor Place or the ships at Fulton, others were covered.
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Inside, you'll find sculpture, mosaics and architectural fragments — including a winding stretch of the defensive stone wall that used to encircle the city — spanning from the pre-Roman period to the Middle Ages.
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Shoppers — sipping smoothies in flavors such as papaya and lilikoi (passion fruit) — wander through a maze of stands selling pottery and mosaics, Kona coffee, handmade flower leis and endless varieties of macadamia nuts.
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Mosaics with mythical drinking contests or depictions of symposia were common, particularly since when reclining on couches (typically arranged on the ground) one was bound to stare at the floor a fair amount.
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Many of the photographs are arranged in a series of mosaics or collages — culminating in a 100-image display that emphasizes the dignity and grace of ghetto residents in the face of impending destruction.
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The other inspiration emerged in 2009, when he spent a year in Rome on a Rome Prize Fellowship and discovered Cosmatesque floor mosaics, which were developed in Italy in the 12th and 13th centuries.
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"We have hundreds of artwork records, covering sculptures, mosaics and paintings," says a representative from The Guinness World Book of Records, an annual publication documenting 'human achievements and the extremes of the natural world'.
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And from what has been said, the burials are four- to fifth-century AD. The emergency excavation also uncovered polychromatic opus sectile mosaics formed with yellow marble, porphyry, and serpentine in various geometric patterns.
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Mosaics, jewelry, fresco fragments and illuminated manuscripts are presented in this exhibition, a wide-ranging showcase of artifacts from the Byzantine Empire, which ruled over much of the Mediterranean for close to 2,000 years.
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Paradoxically, as much money as the state put towards into hiring artists to create these mosaics, residents never recognized their artistic merit, as contributors Olga Balashova and Lizaveta German note in the book's foreword.
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MFA is also considering the possibility of permanently installing all five on the walls of its "Membership Garden," leaving space for rotating long-term loans of mosaics from institutional and private collections, Bennett said.
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Apart from the experience of participating in the Pyongyang Marathon, which was amazing, the most memorable thing I saw were the underground stations with impressive, colorful mosaics and crowds of people coming and going.
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The California artist-architect Millard Sheets designed the imposing edifice on Wilshire Boulevard for the Masonic brotherhood (a fraternal society with roots in medieval builders' guilds), planting his own symbolic murals and mosaics throughout.
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The Lennon Walls are large mosaics of Post-it notes calling for democracy which have cropped up in underpasses, under footbridges, outside shopping centres, at bus stops and universities and elsewhere across the territory.
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While one worked at removing the artist's trademark mosaics based on the 8-bit graphics of the 1978 video game Space Invaders, the other ensured concerned passersby that they were working for city hall.
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Zeid's palate of greens, blues, reds and purples is drawn from the colours of Islamic tiles, with shards bordered by thick black lines recalling the Byzantine mosaics that adorn the palaces and churches of Istanbul.
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The colorful and large number of mosaics found in a synagogue challenge traditional views about Jewish art of the period as symbolic rather than representational of biblical texts, bland, and in decline during the period.
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The Empire State Building is shining bright on Election Night with a breathtaking display of photography, real-time election results, maps, social media mosaics from voters and custom animations, all to commemorate this historic election.
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The house is full of heavy old-fashioned furniture, gloomy bedrooms and plenty of gold mosaics and gold taps—though not real gold, the guide adds hastily: "That was a story spread during the revolution.".
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Of special interest were the Hagia Sophia mosaics, which inspired such portraits as "Figure with Yellow and Blue" (1949) and a breakthrough series of feminized self-portraits using flattening effects, exaggerated volume and strong coloration.
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Listed among Europe's most endangered heritage sites, Europa Nostra said its Brutalist architecture, iconography and mosaics are worth rescuing and that it would turn to the European Union and Bulgarian government for the funding needed.
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Edaphosaurus by Heinrich Harder; Tile reconstruction by Hans Jochen Ihle (1982) Another one of Harder's reconstructed mosaics at the Berlin Aquarium, this time featuring the sail-backed Edaphosaurus that lived some 300 million years ago.
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These include Donald Blumberg's photographic mosaics of TV news images, Sarah Charlesworth's reproductions of newspaper front pages with the text removed, and Omer Fast's video collage of CNN talking heads, reconfigured to deliver meaningful messages.
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As "Let's Go Fly a Kite" from "Mary Poppins" played on the Fantasia Carousel sound system, Mr. Iger pointed toward a grove of cherry trees where 12 mosaics depicted Disney characters in Chinese zodiac style.
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Notorious street artist Invader's pixelated 8-bit video game character mosaics, which began popping up on Paris streets in the mid-90s, have always been richly subversive—a form of public hacking, if you will.
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This was evident from the third-floor overlook of the Fisher arcade, which gave us a view of the frescoes and mosaics that line the ceilings, with images of outstretched eagles that represented American power.
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Much of the museum repair work is going to require carpenters, masons and metal workers who can deal with uncommon stone and brick treatments, wrought iron, carved wood, murals, glass works, mosaics and ornamental landscaping.
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And it inspired I see you (beware of dog), one of three large-scale mixed-media paintings mounted on handmade mosaics featured in his first solo exhibition, Hide and Seek, at yours mine & our gallery.
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The floor will be made of tile mosaics, herringbone-patterned walnut and blends of white Carrara and Nero marquina marble; the walls fashioned from black beveled Bendheim glass; the furniture, midcentury and assembled in Portugal.
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They used the mineral to create armbands and nose plugs, for handles on sacrificial knives and also to design elaborate mosaics of warriors that adorned their ceremonial shields and fearsome statues of double-headed serpents.
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Ms. Harihareswara, a longtime transit enthusiast, said she was struck by the diversity of the subjects depicted in the mosaics throughout the new stations, which also showcase a mural of a gay couple holding hands.
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The discovery of these late antique mosaics is sensational due in part to the ways in which they challenge current scholarship and understanding of Jewish art created after the establishment of Christianity as the official religion of the empire during the fourth century CE. Magness notes the ways they are shifting ideas of Jewish art of the period: The mosaics decorating the floor of the Huqoq synagogue revolutionize our understanding of Judaism in this period … Ancient Jewish art is often thought to be aniconic, or lacking images.
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The two most recent mosaics — send back home by New Horizons — are the latest in a series of "best yet" photos slowly trickling back from the piano-sized probe on the outskirts of the solar system.
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So far, archaeologists there have uncovered tens of thousands of artefacts, including golden tiles engraved with Roman magical symbols, jade and marble sculptures, pottery, mosaics and frescos, along with 14,000 tombs, since excavations started in 1882.
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The Musée Gallo-Romain, in Saint-Romain-en-Gal, situated beside excavated ruins on the opposite bank of the Rhône, features remarkable Gallo-Roman mosaics, including a haunting second-century depiction of Orpheus stroking his lyre.
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Images Take Flight: Feather Art in Mexico and Europe 1400–1700, published by Hirmer Verlag and distributed by University of Chicago Press, is the first thorough study of Mesoamerican feather mosaics from this era of change.
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Subway Art Tours (Saturday and Sunday) Walk About New York is offering two separate tours this weekend to take a look at art — including mosaics, murals, sculptures and more — in different parts of the subway system.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Portraits of celebrated Black and Latino figures radiate sunbeams of golden light in Rico Gatson's recently unveiled glass mosaics at the 167th Street B D subway station in the Bronx.
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But a dearth of land in its densely populated neighborhoods meant that the university, a vast edifice of domes and mosaics that is one of the biggest buildings in the province, is being built farther north.
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Women, either alone or in small groups, engage in mysterious magic rituals, their bodies paused in beautiful poses and dissolving into patterned textiles and mosaics in the new works of Los Angeles-based painter Alison Blickle.
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We are mosaics of our worst selves and our best selves, our deepest secrets and our favorite stories to tell at a dinner party, existing somewhere between our well-lit profile photo and our drivers license shot.
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Beneath the hammer and sickle at to center of the dome, intricate mosaics along its curved walls depict communist propaganda and graffiti engulfs the original murals of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Bulgarian leaders of the past.
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Preliminary dating of the mosaics makes it likely they lived between 132 BCE and 639 CE, when Şanlıurfa was known as the Kingdom of Edessa, where the Syriac dialect first developed and production of Syriac literature flourished.
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There is a hint of what's to come in a 1927 photograph of Rio's Praça Marechal Floriano, whose undulating mosaics of white and black would soon be replicated in Roberto Burle Marx's wavy boardwalk on Copacabana Beach.
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At the New Kattankudy Grand Jumma Mosque, designed as a replica of Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, one of Islam's holiest sites, construction workers are laying intricate blue mosaics as part of the town's mosque-building boom.
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For a sequence in which Rae's character pursues a love interest at a corny open-mike night, Matsoukas found a historic club with swirling tile mosaics on the walls, then painstakingly lit it to flatter the actors.
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It was produced flawlessly, like good theater, set in the sanctuary of the Romanesque Revival building with its 60 stained-glass windows and an altar built of marble flanked by sturdy columns of golden mosaics that soar.
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In retrospect, the thread may have jumped the shark when someone linked to the OG version of "Ave Maria" along with pictures of disconnected Roman mosaics like they're in a 4chan version of The Da Vinci Code.
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It's notable that concrete is an inherent part of each of his bright mosaics: not only does the material remind us of the widespread property upheavals that endlessly transform our city, but it's also one that survives time.
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Sloping buttes and layered outcrops within the Murray Buttes (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)NASA plans to take some of the images snapped at the site to create several large color mosaics, which we're seriously looking forward to.
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In the Najaf school, a typical day will see clerics in flowing black robes and white turbans giving lectures to groups of students sitting on the floor of a great hall, lined with pointed arches and elaborate mosaics.
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In each location, Bachor installed mosaics he designed based on trash that might be found on streets in the area, like packages of Better Made potato chips in Detroit, and cartons of Arctic Splash iced tea in Philadelphia.
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However, after showing a reporter the main lobby's barrel-vaulted ceilings, Byzantine mosaics, and corbel sculptures depicting Mr. Woolworth and Mr. Gilbert, Ms. Curry was quick to add that the condo will have a separate, newly constructed entrance.
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Dozens of Beijing supporters had earlier torn down some of the large mosaics of colourful Post-it notes calling for democracy and denouncing perceived Chinese meddling in the former British colony which returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
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Located in the residential Narvarte neighborhood, the headquarters of the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation, known locally as Centro SCOP, is an imposing functionalist office building covered in a breathtaking 20,000 square meters of elaborate volcanic-stone mosaics.
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But many period details have been preserved, including beautiful stone mosaics in a large central courtyard surrounded by arcades, which are suggestive of the covered walkways called portici that hug miles of boulevards and vast piazzas around the city.
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Yevgen Nikiforov 8/9 It seems some Ukrainians think the answer is no: Nearly 50 mosaics and other works, some featuring Soviet iconography like red stars or hammers and sickles, have been removed or destroyed since Nikiforov photographed them.
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Taschen's tome Erotica Universalis has pictures of paintings, mosaics, and wood carvings of pee-related sex acts that go all the way back to 100 AD. In literature, you find stories of erotic pee going way back as well.
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Were this a first visit, or were I alone with Howie, I couldn't have resisted Palermo: the glorious mosaics in the cathedral of Monreale, the exuberant Baroque statuary of the Quattro Canti, the vibrant markets and delicious street food.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads For centuries, the ancient Roman city of Ucetia in southern France was known only by its name, but archaeologists have recently unearthed traces of it near Nîmes, including beautifully preserved sets of mosaics.
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"I don't know why the mosaics ended up under the lawn, but I assume this was considered the best option under the circumstances at the time," Dr. Michael Bennett, the museum's senior curator of early Western art, told Hyperallergic.
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He had gone to explore the history of Afghanistan, from the empty niches of the Bamiyan Buddhas to the Great Mosque of Herat, famed for its exquisite tile mosaics — monuments attesting to the country's place on the Silk Road.
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The games are a grand spectacle that features nearly 20,000 people flipping placards in unison to create huge mosaics as thousands more perform gymnastics or dance in formation on the competition area of Pyongyang's 150,000-seat May Day Stadium.
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As more and more wilderness is cleared, Kittle and Watson say leopards and other animals are increasingly moving around and even breeding in 'habitat mosaics', or heavily fragmented forested areas surrounded by a patchwork of farms, plantations and homesteads.
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Set on the stretch of Steinway Street in Astoria known as Little Egypt, it has an exterior wall that is tiled in tattered mosaics, with the Eye of Horus, a symbol of protection, gazing out disapprovingly at double-parked cars.
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Experts say that the wealth of mosaics show that Jewish life in the surrounding village flourished during Christian rule in the fifth century A.D. This challenges a widely held view that Jewish settlement in the area declined during that period.
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The existence of the mosaics does not prove the structure was a church, but such evidence does help archaeologists to date the space, along with the use of spolia — that is the reuse of older building materials in a new structure.
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Mosaics were a great indicator of wealth back in Roman times, so it's only fitting that the House of the Faun had one of the most impressive, depicting the Battle of Issus between Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia.
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Once a derelict, vacant block, the area was transformed by artist Isaiah Zagar into a museum, gallery space, and outdoor art exhibit constructed entirely from found objects, hand-made mosaics, and mirrors (find his other neighborhood murals with this map).
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Several years earlier, one of the original Florentine mosaics was discovered, and the recreation proved to be nearly indistinguishable: "The most serious critics and opponents of the project finally admitted the skills of our stone-cutters," boasts the project's website.
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The Massimo's collection of classical bronzes, mosaics and wall paintings reveal the breadth and finesse of Roman artistry, while the baths complex, once the empire's largest, surrounds you with soaring masonry ruins, whispering fountains, and an immense cloister attributed to Michelangelo.
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From a young age, for example, I had been mostly exposed to Ukrainian art, which incorporates ornate mosaics and realistic themes, and thus never understood all the hype about modern American art, which is marked by spherical objects and minimalistic themes.
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"Eastern Christians" has been billed as the largest exhibition anywhere devoted to the religion in the Middle East, and among its paintings, manuscripts, tapestries, mosaics, ivories and liturgical vestments are several critical loans from Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Iraqi Kurdistan.
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The Second Avenue subway, which has stops on East 86th and East 96th Streets (as well as East 72nd and East 63rd Streets to the south), has brought gleaming new stations filled with space-age entrances, impressive mosaics and numerous escalators.
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New Yorkers have flocked to the stations to see the colorful mosaics by well-known artists lining its walls and to experience the novelty of a new subway line — the most ambitious expansion of the system in half a century.
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Marshaling a highly original medley of sources, from arcane legal documents to sarcophagi, mosaics, coins, ivory book covers and architectural flourishes, Kantorowicz proposed that the king's natural body in the early Middle Ages was doubled with a spiritually invested superbody.
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In the introduction, she describes the "sense of urgency" that compelled her first two European signage publications — one on Italy, another on Paris — as their distinct mosaics, wrought iron, neon, gold leaf, stained glass, and other historic signage were disappearing.
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