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I like to think of my work as poetic.

ENC News 22 Oct 2018

Painter Jeff Faust’s compositions bridge a variety of styles and forms of what he calls “subtle surrealism.” The self-taught artist conjures the more lustrous qualities out of his oil paint...

San Diego Art Gallery invites lovers of contemporary art

ENC News 24 Sep 2018

In October 18 – 21, the San Diego Art Gallery opens its doors to accept the lovers of contemporary art. The show will be located in beautiful Wyland Center at...

Eric Lu from Boston won the Leeds piano competition

ENC News 17 Sep 2018

The 19th Leeds piano competition was won on Saturday night by Eric Lu, a 20-year-old from Boston in the United States, whose sparkling and supremely confident performance of Beethoven’s fourth...

Ray Bradbury: full of a great sense of joy

ENC News 10 Sep 2018

Lovers of literature call him an American treasure, a clear-eyed fantasist without peer, and a literary icon who has created wonder for the better part of seven decades. On subjects...

Jack Lemmon: “Happiness was working with him”

ENC News 04 Sep 2018

The recent death of Broadway legend Neil Simon recalled memories of his wonderful body of work, not the least of which was The Odd Couple, which premiered as a play...

The Philly Met’s resurgence

ENC News 27 Aug 2018

The Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House, built in 1908, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Developer Eric Blumenfeld calls the 39,200-square-foot Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House “the...

Zaha Hadid; planet in her own inimitable orbit

ENC News 20 Aug 2018

Initially, Zaha Hadid was called the “paper architect”, her plans were perceived to be unbuildable. For years, her designs struggled to move beyond the sketch phrase and be transformed into...

Andy Warhol: immune to the fickle winds of fame

ENC News 13 Aug 2018

Andy Warhol, the great American conceptual artist, was born 90 years ago. Known for the multimedia works exploring popular iconography that poured out of his New York City studio, The...

Medieval cathedrals: modern problems

ENC News 06 Aug 2018

In many parts of England, cathedrals face a financial crisis: they are expensive to maintain, often need renovations and are almost entirely self-funded – which means they are under constant...

What movies are most successful across all genres?

ENC News 29 Jul 2018

A team of UK scientists believe they have found the formula for box office success. After analysing data from 6,147 movie scripts and filtering it through a series of algorithms,...

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