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Kodak posts narrower 1Q loss, sales edge up
Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday its loss narrowed to $115 million in the first quarter as it chases a bigger stake in digital photography. The photography products maker said it earned the equivalent of 40 cents a share in the quarter, compared with a loss of...
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The recipe for a record price: auction house hype, media frenzy, and billionaire buyers
During the past 12 months, the record for the highest price ever paid for a work by a living artist at auction has been broken twice—first by Damien Hirst’s Lullaby Spring , then by Jeff Koons’s Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold) . While many pundits point to the billionaire boom and the “quality” of these works of art, few have explored how the auction statistic has become a strategically deployed, ...
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Death as a work of ar - a reply
Following our report about German artist Gregor Schneider’s intention to “exhibit” a dying person in a museum, a number of readers have left comments on our website. Here is the artist’s response.
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Coachella ’08 Brings Old Favorites, Fresh Faces to Triple-Digit Indio Desert
A report from the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, complete with Architecture in Helsinki, Jack Johnson, and Prince.
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Humanitarian Media Foundation Launches May 1
The Humanitarian Media Foundation, which launches officially May 1, 2008, has announced its first public initiative, The 2008 HMF International Film/Media Festival & Conference, which will be held in New York City December 10-14, 2008 at the Tribeca Cinemas, Gallery and Event spaces.
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
C-Monster's been doing priceless research. Artnet may have descended into irrelevance, but Steve Mumford's stories from Iraq are always worth a read. Speaking of Iraq, here's a lovely story from a volunteer at the Nelson-Atkins.
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Family connections
By JENNIE CRITCHLOW CRABBE and ALLISON BAKER Grandma lives on one coast, Grandpa on the other. You've got aunts in Florida and friends in Chicago. Meanwhile, at home, your little ones are growing and getting cuter every day. How can you keep everyone up to date on all their antics? Thanks to the Internet, and digital photography, no one has to miss a minute. With a family blog, a video of ...
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Lexington gets report on tourism marketing
On a Friday afternoon and Saturday morning and afternoon in the middle of last December, a team of four quot mystery shoppers quot came to Lexington and secretly visited museums, parks, restaurants and other tourism facilities.One of the visitors returned Wednesday to submit a draft marketing report to the Lexington Tourism Authority.
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Insider's guide to Brighton Festival
Travel: Anna Pickard on what acts to see, the places to eat, and where to prop up the bar
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Lexington Woman's Club recognizes Women of Achievement
The Lexington Woman's Club will host its second Women of Achievement Celebration Dinner on May 30 at the Sapona Country Club in Lexington.In addition to honoring 10 women from Davidson County, the event will feature entertainment and a silent auction. The proceeds will benefit the American Red Cross.
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HOT BLUES NIGHTS... LIVE AT 2120!
Dixon Landing Music has teamed up with legendary bluesman Willie Dixon's Blues Heaven Foundation to sponsor "HOT BLUES NIGHTS... LIVE AT 2120!" This 3-day event, being held June 5th - 7th at the historic former Chess Records Studios, will be an after hours party when the Chicago Blues Festival retires each evening. The purpose of the event is to bring awareness to the foundation and to generate ...
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Whitaker Center Announces Special Engagement of 'OUR BODY: THE UNIVERSE WITHIN' EXHIBITION
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts today announced that it will bring the highly-successful exhibition Our Body: The Universe Within - featuring real human bodies - to Harrisburg, opening June 7, 2008.
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Artist: Creations 'should smack you in the head"
SELINSGROVE -- The artwork of W.R. Hart is difficult to describe. The words distorted and grotesque come to mind. Weird at the very least. And certainly provocative.
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Ingrid Fliter fills Chenery Auditorium with music as part of the 2008 Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival.
KALAMAZOO -- The Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival welcomed back Ingrid Fliter, winner of the 2006 Gilmore Artist Award, on Wednesday evening. The occasion at Chenery Auditorium was a much-anticipated concert featuring Fliter and the Daedalus Quartet.
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Fiber artist to display works at cafe gallery
WILLIAMSPORT -- Fiber artist Jackie Thomas will be Java, Juice & Art Café's guest artist for May's First Friday. Her exhibition titled "Dragons and Their Friends" will be held in the Main Gallery at 125 W. Fourth St. between 6 and 9 p.m. There will be a gallery talk at 7:30 p.m.
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Environment: Heat and electricity generation the German way
Berlin -- Right in the heart of this city, along the 400-kilometer River Spree and just meters away from homes is Mitte CHP. It's not another museum or entertainment center but a modern 380-megawatt natural gas plant that, curiously, spews no fumes.
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Made it Through Moving Day in One Piece? Share Your Secrets to Win Cash
AVON, Ohio----Have you perfected the art of packing? Mastered the moving day process? Think you're the savviest mover on the block? Prove it by entering your most helpful suggestion for making the moving process faster, easier or less stressful in the Duck® brand "Moving Made Easy Contest," sponsored by Henkel Corporation.
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The Tech Museum of Innovation Partners With the International Council of Museums to Host First Virtual International ...
The Tech Museum of Innovation (The Tech), one of the nation's premiere science and technology museums, announced today that it is partnering with the International Council of Museums (ICOM) to host the 31st annual International Museum Day (IMD) within The Tech Virtual Museum in Second Life on May 18, 2008. This year's IMD theme is "Museums as Agents of Social Change and Development." The Tech ...
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Nanoimprint lithography makes a good impression
Robert Jaques, vnunet.com , Thursday 1 May 2008 at 13:12:00 Nist gives technique the thumbs up Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has given a boost to the emerging microcircuit manufacturing technology known as nanoimprint lithography.... > Read the full article
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Kodak posts disappointing quarterly loss
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Photography company Eastman Kodak Co on Thursday posted a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss as higher silver and aluminum costs and increased spending on its inkjet printer business weighed on margins.
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Kodak Net Loss Trails Estimates on Research Costs (Update1)
May 1 (Bloomberg) -- Eastman Kodak Co. , the world's largest photography company, posted a first-quarter loss that trailed analysts' estimates as its push into digital cameras and inkjet printers added to research and material costs.
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Primers are offered in latex- and oil-based versions.
Developed for painting contractors, low VOC ZAP Interior/Exterior Latex Primer blocks typical household stains caused by wax crayons, pencil, pen, china markers, ketchup, mustard, and grease. ZAP Interior Oil-Based Primer blocks difficult-to-remove stains including those from smoke, fire, water damage, and tannin bleed, and seals in odors such as nicotine, fire/smoke damage, and pet odors. Both ...
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Making a Good Impression: Nanoimprint Lithography Tests at NIST
In a paper published last fall, NIST materials scientists found, using sensitive X-ray measurements, that nanoimprint lithography (NIL) could be used on a functional SOG material to transfer patterns with details finer than 100 nm, with minimal distortion due to the processing. This month, a paper detailed the effect of the embossing process on the nanopore structure in the glass, which was ...
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday its loss narrowed to $115 million in the first quarter as it chased a bigger stake in digital photography.
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The Tech Museum of Innovation Partners With the International Council of Museums to Host First Virtual International ...
The Tech Museum of Innovation (The Tech), one of the nation´s premiere science and technology
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