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Terracotta Warriors at The Field Museum in Chicago

Terracotta Warriors at The Field Museum in Chicago! Stand among larger-than-life soldiers in The Field Museum’s newest exhibition. Tasked to guard Qin Shihuangdi’s tomb for eternity, archers, infantrymen, and armored officers hold watch over a striking underground model of China’s first empire.

Terracotta Warriors at The Field Museum in Chicago. Copyright © 2016 The Field Museum, All rights reserved.

Explore the life of the ruler who vanquished his rivals, unified China’s many warring states, constructed the first Great Wall, built roads throughout his vast territory, and standardized China’s script, currency, weights, and measures. Learn about his desire to reign over the universe and his obsession with immortality. See priceless treasures from one of the world’s greatest archaeological discoveries, including the fierce warriors that are so revered The Field Museum is the only place in North America they can be seen this year.

Be one of the first to see this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition.

Enjoy your day, Yareah friends. Art is everywhere and up to you!

TV Shows Today, March 5: Black Sails, Doctor Who, MythBusters

It’s Saturday and it’s cold here. Good time to enjoy these three great television shows. First, we recommend Black Sails. Today’s episode: XXV. Season 3. Episode 7. 9:00 pm. STARZ. From Wikipedia: Black Sails is an American dramatic adventure television series set on New Providence Island and a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island. The series was created by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine for Starz that debuted online for free on YouTube and other various streaming platform and video on demand services on January 18,

Our second choice is for the series from the BBC, Doctor Who. Today: Heaven Sent; Hell Bent. 9:00 pm.

And our last recombination is for MythBusters. Today: MythBusters: The Reunion. Season 14. Episode 11. 9:00 pm. DSC.

We hope you enjoy the shows. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

TV Shows Today, march 5 Video: Black Sails | Season 3 Official Trailer | STARZ

Birthdays Today, March 5: Eva Mendes, Madison Beer, Sterling Knight, Shay Carl Butler

She is great, beautiful and a wonderful woman, she is Eva Mendes and she is our Top#1 Famous Birthdays Today, March 5. She was born in Miami –great place- in 1974 and, from Yareah, we wish her and her family all the best in this special day. Congrats and happy birthday, Eva Mendes!

Famous Birthdays Today, March 5: 66ème Festival de Venise (Mostra) Eva Mendès. Source: flickr. Author: nicolas genin

People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you’re the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype.

Eva Mendes

‘Anchorman’ is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It’s my ‘Gone With the Wind.’

Eva Mendes

More famous birthdays today, March 5: Madison Beer, pop singer born in Jericho, New York in 1999; Sterling Knight, actor born in 1989; and Shay Carl Butler, YouTube star born in Logan in 1980.

Happy birthday to all of them. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

Famous Birthdays Today, March 5 Video: Eva Mendes on Her New Baby

Outlander season 2. Two people can visit Jamie’s historical sites in Scotland for free

Outlander season 2 is coming! The main plot of the next season takes Scottish warrior Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) and his wife Claire (Caitriona Balfe) to France, but they will return to Scotland in the second half of the season. No doubt, Paris is beautiful but Scotland always rocks! Don’t you think so? Now, family business Walkers Shortbread is offering two people a chance to visit Scotland. Ten days and all expenses will be borne by the company!

Outlander season 2. Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan as Claire and Jamie Fraser

The winners will learn about Scottish history and they will visit Edinburgh, the Orkney Islands and Skye as well as other historical sites that are relevant to Outlander TV show.

The contest is only available for US residents. Participants need to be over 18 in order to compete for 25 first prizes and all the first prize winners will receive a prize pack. Great!

Maybe you also like this post: Enjoy the elegant costumes that Terry Dresbach has created for the show! Read here.

** Outlander is an American-British television drama series based on the historical time travel Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Developed by Ronald D. Moore and produced by Sony Pictures Television and Left Bank Pictures for Starz. The second season, consisting of 13 episodes and based on Dragonfly in Amber, will premiere on April 9, 2016.

Outlander season 2 official trailer. Take a look!

Outlander season 2 plot: Having moved to Paris, Jamie and Claire attempt to prevent the Jacobite risings by subverting the funds that King Louis XV of France is providing to the pretender Charles Stuart.

Precisely, actor Andrew Gower is going to play as Prince Charles Edward Stuart.

What do you expect from Outlander season 2? Tell us your opinion now!

Enjoy your day, Yareah friends. Art is everywhere and up to you!

Crafts. Paper and Blade at Brockton

Crafts. Paper and Blade: Modern Paper Cutting includes Elizabeth Alexander, Charles Clary, Béatrice Coron, Mayuko Fujino, Katherine Glover, Bovey Lee, Nikki McClure, Randal Thurston, Michael Velliquette, Maude White, and Charles Young.

Charles Clary, Flam-a-Pleural Effusion Movement #3, 2015. Hand cut paper, acrylic on panel. Photo courtesy of Fuller Craft Museum

Paper is all around us. We find it on our desks, in our wallets, our mailboxes, and in our domestic and personal spaces. We use it daily for any number of recreational, professional, and domestic tasks. It transmits information and, along with it, a range of positive and negative associations. Yet despite its practical nature, paper has offered unlimited creative possibilities for centuries. Paper and Blade: Modern Paper Cutting celebrates the expressive potential of this commonplace material and the evocative work from leading contemporary paper cutters.

While paper cutting has been an art form since the 6th Century A.D., the genre is enjoying a present-day renaissance and with good reason. Its accessibility and affordability—requiring only one’s hands, a sheet of paper, and a simple blade—hold both practical and creative appeal. The upswing in practice may also be a cultural response towards simplification in today’s age of digitization and green politics. Or perhaps its popularity stems from nostalgia, evoking memories of paper snowflakes, loop garlands, or paper dolls. Whatever the driving force, new makers are discovering the field with gusto while veteran cutters continue to explore the outer edges of this enigmatic art form. Paper and Blade: Modern Paper Cutting was made possible by the Gretchen Keyworth Exhibitions Fund.

Exhibitions: February 20, 2016 – July 31, 2016. Brockton, Mass.

TV Shows Today, March 4: House of Cards, Grimm, The Vampire Diaries

Best Villains on Television: Frank Underwood. Kevin Spacey. House of Cards

Well, we all know that today is the day. Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) is back and he is the most powerful man in the world. House of Cards. Netflix. From Wikipedia: House of Cards is an American political drama web television series developed and produced by Beau Willimon. It is an adaptation of the BBC’s mini-series of the same name and is based on the novel by Michael Dobbs.

Our second recommendation is for the series Grimm. Today: Key Move. Season 5. Episode 11. 9:00 pm. NBC.

And our last choice is for The Vampire Diaries. Today’s episode: I Would for You. Season 7. Episode 15. 8:00 pm. CW.

We hope you enjoy the shows. Have a very nice day, dey, dear friends.

TV Shows Today, March 4 Video: House of Cards – Season 4 – Official Trailer – Netflix [HD]

Famous Birthdays Today, March 4: K Michelle, Brooklyn Beckham, Sarah Oliver, Moniece Slaughter

 

She is a fantastic R&B singer and she is our Top#1 Famous Birthdays Today, March 4. She is K Michelle, she was born in Memphis in 1982 and, from Yareah, we wish her and her family all the best in this special day. Congrats and happy birthday, K Michelle!

Famous Birthdays Today, March 4: K. Michelle. Source: Wikipedia. Author: Therealdee

Youre always so quick to up and criticize, I got my flaws and yes I realize. I’ve become so hard to deal with cuz at this point my heart is so tired.

K Michelle

How many times I caught you on the phone with her, how many times did I take you back and you broke my heart.

K Michelle

More famous birthdays today, March 4: Brooklyn Beckham, son of David Beckham, born in Westminster, England in 1999; Sarah Oliver, reality star; and Moniece Slaughter, also reality star, born in California in 1987.

Happy birthday to all of them. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

Famous Birthdays Today, March 4 Video: K. Michelle – Hard To Do (Official Video)

Pretty girls on TV. Katheryn Winnick as Lagertha in Vikings season 4

Vikings season 4. Katheryn Winnick is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her roles in Amusement (2008), Bones (2010), A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2012), and The Art of the Steal (2013). From 2013 to present, she plays as Lagertha in Vikings TV show. A really pretty actress with a strong personality. Our quote of the day is by Katheryn Winninck because she is as brave as Lagertha. Listen to her!

Katheryn Winnick as Lagertha

“When I was growing up, there were times I had to compete against boys in tae kwon do, and I’d show them right away that I wasn’t someone to mess with.” Katheryn Winnick.

Vikings is inspired by the tales of the raiding, trading, and exploring Norsemen of early medieval Scandinavia. Lagertha was a shieldmaiden. She rises to become Earl of Hedeby in her own right, going by the name Earl Ingstad.

“The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.” Katheryn Winnick.

Lagertha’s tale is recorded in passages in the ninth book of the Gesta Danorum, a 12th-century work of Danish history by Saxo Grammaticus.

Video: Katheryn Winnick as Lagertha in Vikings season 4

According to the Gesta, Lagertha’s career as a warrior began when Frø invaded Norway and killed the Norwegian king Siward putting the women of the dead king’s family into a brothel. Lagertha rebelled and began her struggle.

“I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.” Katheryn Winnick.

What do you expect from Vikings season 4. Tell us your opinion now!

Enjoy your day, Yareah friends. Art is everywhere and up to you!

Film at the MFA. Documentary chronicles recently rediscovered Chinese artist and author Mu Xin

Film at the MFA in Boston. Documentary chronicles recently rediscovered Chinese artist and author Mu Xin.

Mu Xin in 2010, from the film “Dreaming Against the World”

Dreaming Against the World is a documentary portrait of Mu Xin, one of the most original and overlooked Chinese artists and authors of the past century. While imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution, he risked his life by making art in solitary confinement. After emigrating to New York in the early 1980s, Mu Xin continued painting and writing in obscurity. The story of how Mu Xin created an astonishing body of work that merged East and West, the ancient and the modern, terror and transcendence, Dreaming Against the World testifies to the artistic integrity and personal courage he upheld in the face of adversity. Written and directed by Oscar and Emmy nominated filmmakers Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello, it was filmed on location in China and New York and had its festival premiere at the 2015 Telluride Film Festival (USA, 2014, 35 min.).

SPECIAL GUESTS: The showing of Dreaming Against the World will be introduced by Nancy Berliner, Wu Tung Curator of Chinese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A moderated by Peter Rand, author and professor at Boston University. The panelists will be: artist and critic Chen Danqing and filmmakers Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello. The screening and panel are co-presented with Boston-based Ballets Russes Arts Initiative.

TICKET & VENUE INFORMATION: Tickets may be purchased online at www.mfa.org/film, by calling the MFA Ticketing Line at 800.440.6975, or in person at any MFA ticket desk. Tickets are $9 for MFA members, $11 for nonmembers, $5 for students at local universities.

TV Shows Today, March 3: Vikings, Elementary, How to Get Away With Murder

Vikings TV Show

Well, we love this series and that’s because it’s fantastic period drama. We are talking about Vikings. Today’s episode: Mercy. Season 4. Episode 3. 10:00. HIST. From Wikipedia: Vikings is an Irish-Canadian historical drama television series written and created by Michael Hirst for the television channel History. Filmed in Ireland, it premiered on 3 March 2013 in Canada and the United States.

Our second choice is for Elementary. Today: Up to Heaven and Down to Hell. Season 4. Episode 15. 10:00 pm. CBS.

And our last recommendation is for the series How to Get Away With Murder. Today: Something Bad Happened. Season 2. Episode 13. 10:00P pm. ABC.

We hope you enjoy the shows. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

TV Shows Today, March 3 Video: Vikings 4×03 Promo “Mercy” Season 4 Episode 3 Preview