Tag: Celebrates
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Qover raises $12M from CIBC as it celebrates 10 years of embedded insurance growth
Insurtech Qover today marks its 10th anniversary with a significant milestone: the extension of a $12 million growth capital facility from CIBC Innovation Banking, bringing total funding raised since inception to over $100 million. Founded in 2016 by Quentin Colmant and Jean-Charles Velge, Qover set out to make insurance simple, transparent, and accessible across borders read more
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Artists' Calendar Celebrates LA’s Everyday Landmarks
Features For 40 years, Nib Geebles and Abira Ali have chronicled the unspoken, day-to-day minutiae of their hometown in their beloved calendar. Nib Geebles, “Happy Lion Arts & Gifts, Chinatown,” pen and paint on paper(all images courtesy Gordon Henderson and Abira Ali unless noted) LOS ANGELES —Shuttered storefronts, parked cars, hand-painted advertising, power lines, graffiti, read more
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A Quilted Ice Hut on a Minnesota Lake Celebrates Community, Agriculture, and Craft
For residents of the Upper Midwest and Canada—the land of lakes—ice shanties are ubiquitous winter fixtures. From the huge temporary villages that emerge on Wisconsin’s Lake Winnebago for sturgeon-spearing season to ramshackle, hand-built huts dotting Ontario’s Lake Simcoe, these vernacular structures are designed around openings or hatches in the floors so that hardy northerners can read more
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Nan Goldin’s Photobook The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary at Gagosian
“I don’t ever want to be susceptible to anyone else’s version of my history,” wrote photographer Nan Goldin at the end of her essay for her major photo book The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, first published in 1986. In the 20-plus printings of her debut—and still most celebrated—work, Goldin has never changed the foreword (although read more
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A Short Documentary Celebrates the Community that Rallied Around 'Rick on the Roof'
Two decades ago, a man named Rick Canty lost his mother and was shortly thereafter evicted from their home in Barry, Wales, due to bankruptcy charges he vehemently claimed were fraudulent. In protest against being forced to move, he climbed on top of the house and settled into a new routine on the rooftop, not read more
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