Tag: East
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AethexAI raises $3M to build voice AI infrastructure for Africa and the Middle East
AethexAI, a UK voice AI infrastructure company building for enterprises across emerging markets, today announced a $3 million pre-seed round led by 4DX Ventures and the launch of its platform. The round included participation from Enza Capital, Dorm Room Fund, Mojo Ventures, 26 Fund and strategic angel investors, including Stanford faculty, telecoms executives and AI read more
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Guadalupe Rosales Brings East LA to Venice for the Biennale
In 2015, Los Angeles–based artist Guadalupe Rosales launched the Instagram account @veteranas_and_rucas as a way to share images from her personal archive of Chicana life in Southern California in the 1990s. In the decade since, the account has shared thousands of images and amassed over 273,000 followers, many of whom have submitted their own images read more
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East Africa: Uganda Hosts Chinese Investors for High-Level Trade, Tourism Investment Tour
Uganda is currently hosting a high-level delegation of Chinese investors and industry representatives as part of the ongoing Uganda-China Coffee Investment and Destination Tour, a strategic initiative aimed at strengthening trade, investment, and market linkages between the two countries. The tour, organized by Uganda’s Embassy in Beijing in collaboration with the Uganda Consulate in Guangzhou, read more
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Gagosian to Open New Upper East Side Gallery with a Duchamp Show, a Rarity in a Commercial Setting
Having been kicked out of its longtime home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Gagosian is starting over in the neighborhood with a new space on the ground floor of 980 Madison Avenue, the same building where it formerly had a multilevel gallery. Because Gagosian is such a force within the art industry, the inauguration of read more
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See Robert Frank and June Leaf’s East Village Loft, Currently Listed for $6.5 M.
The extremely bohemian East Village loft that photographer Robert Frank and artist June Leaf called home for more than 40 years is on the market, with an asking price of $6.5 million. That hefty sum will gain you access to no small amount of Lower Manhattan lore, as the two artists made their home/studio at read more
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Swivel to Merge with Lower East Side’s Marc Straus Gallery, as Founder Graham Wilson Joins as Partner
Marc Straus Gallery announced Tuesday that Graham Wilson, the founder of Tribeca’s Swivel Gallery, has joined the gallery as a partner and senior director. As part of the move, Swivel will close its Tribeca space and its artists will move over to Straus, which has locations in Tribeca and the Lower East Side. The latter, read more
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Middle East museums brace for war; Whitney Biennial news
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. Good Morning! Museums across the Middle East are under threat amid bombing attacks. Seventy-five museum and biennial exhibitions to see this spring. Diya Vij has been selected to become commissioner of New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs. The Headlines LINE OF FIRE.As the death read more
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The Marquis de Sade of the Upper East Side
Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of sexual assault. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org. Ten days before several hundred sans-culottes and Parisian commoners, armed with filched muskets and cobblestones, stormed the Bastille, its most notorious prisoner had already been transferred. Coincidentally, it was that transferred inmate read more
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Henrike Naumann, Sculptor Who Exhumed East Germany’s Troubled Past, Dies at 41
Henrike Naumann, a sculptor whose installations composed of furniture and design objects associated with East Germany’s troubled past made her a star of the German art scene, died on Saturday at 41. Her death preceded one of her biggest projects to date: the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, where the Berlin-based artist is set read more
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Uganda: Museveni Campaigns in Bukonzo East, Advocates for Commercial Agriculture and Tourism
Kasese — President Yoweri Museveni on Monday campaigned in Bukonzo East, Kasese District, where he called on residents to embrace commercial agriculture, tourism, and manufacturing as key drivers of wealth creation and job growth. Addressing supporters, President Museveni said peace and stability had laid a strong foundation for development in Kasese and the country at read more
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