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  2. Visual arts - Wikipedia

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    Training in the visual arts has generally been through variations of the apprentice and workshop systems. In Europe, the Renaissance movement to increase the prestige of the artist led to the academy system for training artists, and today most of the people who are pursuing a career in the arts train in art schools at tertiary levels.

  3. Fashion (2008 film) - Wikipedia

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    Fashion was also promoted at the Lakme Fashion Week, where Chopra, Ranaut and Godse walked the ramp. [53] Made on a budget of ₹ 180 million (US$2.2 million), Fashion earned ₹ 85 million (US$1.0 million), and before release recouped half its cost from tie-ins with brands including Reebok, Lenovo, Sunsilk and LG Electronics. Products from ...

  4. City University of New York - Wikipedia

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    The City University of New York (CUNY, spoken / ˈ k juː n i /, KYOO-nee) is the public university system of New York City.It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven senior colleges, seven community colleges, and seven professional institutions.

  5. Fashion activism - Wikipedia

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    Fashion activism is the practice of using fashion as a medium for social, political, and environmental change. The term has been used recurringly in the works of designers and scholars Lynda Grose, Kate Fletcher, Mathilda Tham, Kirsi Niinimäki, Anja-Lisa Hirscher, Zoe Romano, and Orsola de Castro, as they refer to systemic social and political change through the means of fashion.

  6. Culture of Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia

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    These carvers create forms of plants or animals, because they believe these are their ancestor beings and because they feel they are beautiful. They also create traditional skull portraits. Also well represented in the collections of museums around the world is the Malagan art tradition of New Ireland.

  7. Petra Nova - Wikipedia

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    The Petra Nova carbon emissions reduction system cost approximately $1 billion to install, and received a nearly $190 million grant from the U.S. Government [9] under the Clean Coal Initiative, as well as a $250 million loan from the Japanese government. The increased oil recovery in the adjacent oil field was expected to result in a net savings.

  8. 1990s in fashion - Wikipedia

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    Fashion in the 1990s was defined by a return to minimalist fashion, [1] in contrast to the more elaborate and flashy trends of the 1980s. One notable shift was the mainstream adoption of tattoos , [ 2 ] body piercings aside from ear piercing [ 3 ] and, to a much lesser extent, other forms of body modification such as branding .

  9. Vocative case - Wikipedia

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    The vocative case in Irish operates in a similar fashion to Scottish Gaelic. The principal marker is the vocative particle a, which causes lenition of the following initial letter. In the singular there is no special form, except for first declension nouns.