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How Renoir's Mistress Launched His Career
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Complete video at http://fora.tv/2012/02/22/Fashioning_the_Mistress_Gloria_Groom Curator of European Painting at The Art Institute of Chicago Gloria Groom explains how Renoir's mistress, Lise Trehot, helped launch his career. Lise Trehot posed for nearly 20 of Renoir's early paintings, between 1866-1872. ---- Between 1866 and 1872 Renoir fea... Read more

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- -: How Renoir's Mistress Launched His Career

March 1, 2012 (about 12 years ago)

Complete video at http://fora.tv/2012/02/22/Fashioning_the_Mistress_Gloria_Groom Curator of European Painting at The Art Institute of Chicago Gloria Groom explains how Renoir's mistress, Lise Trehot, helped launch his career. Lise Trehot posed for nearly 20 of Renoir's early paintings, between 1...

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Source: Fora.tv

- -: La Promenade: Looking Under the Surface of a Renoir Masterpiece

February 17, 2012 (about 12 years ago)

Complete video at http://fora.tv/2012/02/08/Renoirs_Wall_Power_Colin_B_Bailey Dr. Colin B. Bailey, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection, discusses the surprising facts that were discovered when Renoir's "La Promenade" was examined using infrared reflectograph...

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- -: TEDxPalermo - Silvia Paoli - Amuse The Fashion Muse

May 17, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)

The TEDxPalermo Talk by Silvia Paoli was in late afternoon of April30th. The location due to bad weather was changed at the very last minute and studio427 was welcoming our day. Silvia Paoli was born in Pisa (but Livorno is in her soul), lived in Milan for 15 years, where she worked as a journal...

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- -: Cory Doctorow: Is Your Search History Really Anonymous?

February 9, 2010 (about 14 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/31/Rethinking_Privacy_in_an_Age_of_Disclosure_and_Sharing Boing Boing editor and blogger Cory Doctorow warns that Web searches are more difficult to "anonymize" than is commonly believed, citing AOL's accidental data disclosure in 2006. "Would it harm yo...

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- -: How Google Uses Your Information - Peter Barron

February 9, 2010 (about 14 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/31/Rethinking_Privacy_in_an_Age_of_Disclosure_and_Sharing Peter Barron of Google responds to the question: "Why does Google need to know so much about me?" Barron reassures the public that Google collects personal data not to "do anything sinister," but ...

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- -: The Future of Cloud Enabled Devices

August 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/09/01/Anthony_Townsend_The_Future_of_Lightweight_Innovation Institute For The Future's Anthony Townsend demonstrates the benefits of Internet connected devices, such as sensors on a bicycle. Townsend explains how people and cities are able to gather data ab...

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Jonathan Drori: Why We're Storing Billions of Seeds

February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)

Collecting seeds is a way of saving plants since they are the only living plant part where genetic information and viability can be both preserved for a long period of time as discussed by Jonathan Driori.

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