In 2010, there was huge hype around the public competition to design a new symbol for the rupee. Not to be outdone, the Ministry of External Affairs organized a public competition to come up with a logo to mark India's hosting of its first ...
Venice, Calif. Sculptor Cliff Garten is known for his grand public pieces. His wife, Molly Reid, is a residential architect. The couple's first collaboration: an overhaul of a dilapidated house and garage on the 11,000-square-foot lot they ...
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard may have got her way with a carbon tax but Australia is still a long way behind in terms of environmentally friendly dealmaking.
The real-estate crash left pockets of the region's rural areas littered with the remnants of would-be golf courses, shopping centers and luxury subdivisions that never got off the ground. But the market swoon has yielded an unexpected ...
Clint Eastwood is receiving grief for his Super Bowl ad for Chrysler, which many saw as an Obama campaign ad trumpeting the president's Detroit bailout.
A favorite trick of people who consider themselves friends of the environment is reframing luxury consumption preferences as gifts to humanity. A new car, a solar-powered swimming-pool heater, a 200-mile-an-hour train that makes intercity ...
President Obama's re-election campaign is today releasing the 29 songs that will play at rallies, speeches and other events in 2012. The campaign soundtrack features tracks by artists ranging from Aretha Franklin to Dierks Bentley — and, ...
A dish made of Swiss chard and whole grains can sound like the sort of hippie food that's heavier on virtue than charm. But when the greens are braised with preserved lemon, the grains are tossed with toasted pistachios and a drizzle of ...
Mediterranean, Vegas-Style This 16,649-square-foot home in Las Vegas -- with 11 bedrooms, 11 full baths and 2 half-baths -- will be auctioned without reserve on Feb. 24 through Concierge Auctions.
By Amol Sharma and Preetika Rana MEERUT, India – Let there be no doubt that Rahul Gandhi can draw a crowd. A big, big crowd of curious Indian citizens who want to see the heir to the nation's most storied political dynasty in person and hear ...
Americans saw their incomes rise steadily at the end of 2011 but have yet to make up a good deal of ground lost during the downturn and recovery.
While attention is focused on the stock market, commodities have made some positive moves on the charts. And very quietly, industrial metals such as copper have made technical breakout moves.
For this year's balloting, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences streamlined the Grammy's award categories, cutting the number to 78 from 109. The trimming came mostly in the less celebrated, not-so-commercially obsessed ...
For the New Museum's forthcoming triennial, "The Ungovernables," curator Eungie Joo spent two years visiting studios around the world, meeting artists from Buenos Aires to Hong Kong, Cairo to Harare. Out of the 34 artists and artist groups ...