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• Friday Photo: Bend It Like Khadija

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  (Courtesy The Empty Quarter, Dubai)

  'Tis the season for Paris Photo, where 102 galleries and publishers from 23 countries are taking part in the world's leading photography fair. This year's fair, which runs through Sunday at the Carrousel du Louvre, spotlights Arab and [...]

  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:01pm EST

• Laura Bush Unveils Design Plans for the George W. Bush Presidential Center

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  Way back when in 2007, we were one of the first outlets to tell you that Robert A.M. Stern had been hired to design the George W. Bush Presidential Center, then again earlier this year about its sudden increase in size and Laura Bush finding [...]

  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:02am EST

• Zaha Hadid Joins Forces with F. Murray Abraham to Meet the Pope

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  Last week marked the opening of starchitect Zaha Hadid's Maxxi, a museum housing contemporary art, in Rome. The NY Times resident critic, Nicolai Ouroussoff decided to open his recent (and glowing) review of the new building, "What would Pope Urban VIII have made of Maxxi....? [...]

  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:00am EST

• Artist Jeanne-Claude Passes Away, Husband Christo Vows to Continue Their Work

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  Sad news to start off the day with. Late yesterday, it was reported that Jeanne-Claude, the French artist who was married to and collaborated with Christo on a wide-variety of massive projects that largely involved huge installations, like "The Umbrellas" in Japan and "The Gates" in [...]

  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:00am EST

• John Galliano to Design Claridge's Christmas Tree

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  If we weren't saving up all of our spending money (in a Harry Allen-designed piggy bank, naturally) for Art Basel Miami, we would be snapping up one of those freshly discounted airfares to London. Once deposited across the pond, we'd head straight for the Ed [...]

  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:58pm EST

• What's Next for Adland Author James Othmer?

  High-flying advertising executive turned author James Othmer's new book, Adland: Searching for Life on a Branded Planet (Doubleday), offers an inside look at the past, present, and future of the ad industry. His tales of the wild and morally questionable ride from the days of Mad Men to branded [...]

  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:00pm EST

• Vogue Design Director Danko Steiner Departs; Wintour Recruits Raúl Martinez

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  A year and a half after he stepped up to replace longtime Vogue design director Charles Churchward, Danko Steiner has decided to leave the magazine. He is concluding his four-year tenure at Vogue to pursue photography, according to a report from WWD. Editor-in-chief Anna [...]

  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:34pm EST

• Singer Taylor Swift Gets into Greeting Card Design

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  We've seen celebrities "design" piles upon piles of clothing, shoes, and anything else they can get their grubby little celebrity hands on. But now singer/songwriter Taylor Swift can lay claim to being the first to get into the lucrative greeting card market (those cards with people [...]

  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:00am EST

• UC Berkley Decides to Scrap Toyo Ito Designed Building

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  We pick you up and then drop you back down. Sorry, but that's just how we roll around here. As positive as that last post was about the Billings Index rise, that doesn't necessarily mean much to a project that's getting shut down. So it is for [...]

  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:01am EST

• AIA's Billing Index Continues to Rise, Reaches Pre-Bust Numbers

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  Have we survived? Have we really put these dark days behind us and come out alive? So it might seem when you hear the news that the AIA's Architecture Billing Index is finally back to the levels it was at in August of 2008, right before [...]

  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:04am EST

• Views from Windows Find Their Way Into Two Books

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  If you like interesting or attractive scenery, but particularly if you enjoy looking at it through windows, 2009 is going to be a red letter year for you, given that there are two new books available that provide just that. First up is Matteo Pericoli's The [...]

  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:01am EST