Interest from the international Conran empire has blown new life into two SA glassware businesses, finds Yvonne Fontyn (Financial Mail)
very South African and nattily stoppered with used corks from Nederburg and other wine estates - has caught the eye of UK designer Sir Terence Conran for his 2010 collection.

Sex, Death and Sacrifice in the Mochica Religion at the Musee du Quay Branly (Art Daily)
Wrinkle Face in a fish boat, part of "Sexe Mort et Sacrifice" (Sex, Death and Sacrifice) exhibition are seen Monday, March 8, 2010 in Paris.

So souper (North Platte Telegraph)
The North Platte Telegraph American psychologist Abraham Maslow once said, "A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting." On Friday, area residents had an opportunity to sample more than a dozen first-rate soups at the Souper Bowl Cookoff.

Souper Bowl Cookoff a tasty success (Lexington Clipper-Herald)
NORTH PLATTE - American psychologist Abraham Maslow once said, "A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting." On Friday, area residents had an opportunity to sample more than a dozen first-rate soups at the Souper Bowl Cookoff.

EducationExtra Opportunities (The Register-Guard)
Kids’ drop-in art class to be on making vases Fabricating vases is the project on tap at Saturday’s weekly drop-in art class for children at the Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts. Participants will learn how to make storage vessels for spring flowers or other items. Children can drop by …

Sargent Masterpiece Travels to Spain for Meeting with Velazquez's "Las Meninas" (Art Daily)
BOSTON, MA.- An historic meeting among some of the art world’s most enigmatic young ladies will take place at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, where John Singer Sargent’s "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" ( Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , 1882) and Diego Velázquez’s "Las Meninas" (Museo Nacional del Prado, 1656) will be shown together for the first time.

London Court welcomes Pigeonhole (thewest.com.au)
While studying commerce and law Johann Kim would make jewellery and sell it to boutiques.

Jo Ellis: City Hall lobby connects Carthage with namesake (The Joplin Globe)
CARTHAGE, Mo. — The lobby of Carthage City Hall is a bit more unusual than your run-of-the-mill city hall lobby. Ignore notices of meetings hanging in the entry foyer and you could easily believe you’ve walked into a museum or art gallery.

Color? S.F. boutique has that covered (San Francisco Chronicle)
If interior designer Jeannie Fraise could be a color, most likely she'd be orange. Perhaps that's why her newly expanded Hayes Valley boutique, Lotus Bleu (housed in the former Symposium bookstore space), is nothing short of a real-life Candyland, stocked...