Topic: ART - on August 21, 2009 at 10:52:00 AM CEST
New Hitchhiker’s Guide book “not very funny”
An early review of part of the Eoin Colfer-penned sequel to Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy series has panned the book as not being very funny.
Prolific British writer and comedian Adams tragically passed away in 2001 at he age of 49, leaving behind five immensely popular Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books (and a variety of other works in different media) that have kept readers laughing for many years.
However, on 17 September 2008, publisher Penguin announced it would publish a new book in the series, authorised by Adams’ widow Jane Belson and written by Colfer, author of the best-selling Artemis Fowl novels. The book, entitled “And Another Thing …” is scheduled to be published in October this year. But is it funny?
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Topic: ART - on August 7, 2009 at 12:39:00 PM CEST
Dead sexy ban
Creepy pathologist Gunther von Hagens has been banned from showing his exhibition of the stripped down bodies of a couple having sex.
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Topic: ART - on August 7, 2009 at 12:38:00 PM CEST
Leichen-Professor verhüllt die Toten
So hält man sich an ein Verbot – und lacht gleichzeitig darüber.
Leichen-Professor Gunther von Hagens wollte in seiner Augsburger Körperwelten-Ausstellung einen plastinierten Liebesakt vorführen: Mann und Frau eng ineinander verschlungen, aber ohne Haut.
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Topic: ART - on July 11, 2009 at 3:31:00 PM CEST
The Art Site: IT LIVES!
Finally after what seems years of late nights and missed breakfasts (OK maybe one!) The art site is alive (and just in time for Tash’s birthday too). We’ve been all over the place to find the finest quality printers and finally settled with one who could reproduce to our very high, nit-picky standards.
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Topic: ART - on July 11, 2009 at 3:25:00 PM CEST
MC Escher lights on an Italian castle
Walls that are folded, battlements and flying rocks crumble. Apparati Effimeri is a collective of video artists is dedicated to Italians who make spectacles of light in different events.
APPARATI EFFIMERI Tetragram for Enlargment from Apparati Effimeri on Vimeo.
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Topic: ART - on July 9, 2009 at 11:58:00 AM CEST
Sir Terry Pratchett sets out a dignified way to go
Since being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Sir Terry Pratchett has been outspoken in his support of the right for the terminally ill to die with dignity.
And for his own death, the author has particular hopes, Mandrake can disclose.
Speaking at The Oldie Literary Lunch held at Simpson's-in-the-Strand, Sir Terry drew gasps from the audience, which included Joanna Lumley and Virginia McKenna, when he described how he would like his own life to end. "Since I was told I had Alzheimer's my mind has been very concentrated on this," he said. "My way to end my life will be to sit on my lawn at my home in Wiltshire with a bottle of brandy and Thomas Tallis playing on my iPod. I can't think of a better way to make my departure. Hopefully the doctor will have been around earlier to give me the appropriate injection."
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Topic: ART - on July 9, 2009 at 11:56:00 AM CEST
Destino by Salvador Dali and Walt Disney
Destino is a short film written and storyboarded in 1945 by Salvador Dali and Walt Disney that was shelved for financial reasons, but then re-discovered and completed in 2003 by Dominique Monfrey. It was released in a limited run theatrically with the Triplets of Belleville, and may have a 2010 release on DVD.
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Topic: ART - on July 6, 2009 at 2:21:00 PM CEST
Amazing Artwork from Banksy vs. Bristol Museum
The legendary and mysterious artist, Banksy, has taken over the Bristol Museum for a stunning summer showing: Banksy vs. Bristol Museum. The exhibit opened on June 13, 2009 and ends on August 31, 2009. For those lucky enough to get there, admission to this unique exhibit is free.
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Topic: ART - on July 3, 2009 at 11:39:00 AM CEST
Einziges Selbstporträt von Michelangelo entdeckt?
Ist er's oder ist er's nicht? Der Oberrestaurator des Vatikan jedenfalls ist stolz: Er glaubt, im Wandgemälde "Die Kreuzigung Petri" das einzige, klare Selbstbildnis Michelangelos entdeckt zu haben.
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Topic: ART - on June 25, 2009 at 8:53:00 AM CEST
Banksy mural defaced with paint
A picture painted by the artist Banksy has been vandalised with blue paint pellets fired from a paintball gun.
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Topic: ART - on June 13, 2009 at 1:11:00 PM CEST
A Zoo in Vienna
Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna is host to a fascinating series of temporary art installations by Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Demp. In one animal enclosure, the German duo have half-submerged a car in a watering hole used by the resident rhinos. In another enclosure, penguins frolic in the shadow of an oil pump, and in yet another, alligators must share their modest bayou with a bathtub and a monster truck tire.
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Topic: ART - on June 13, 2009 at 1:05:00 PM CEST
Anarchie ist ja auch nur ein Handwerk
Fast eine feindliche Übernahme: Erst 36 Stunden vor Eröffnung erfuhr das Personal des Bristol Museums, dass eine große Banksy-Ausstellung stattfindet. Doch funktioniert seine anarchische Straßenkunst auch in so bürgerlichem Rahmen?
Diese so unglaublich lässige Verbindung klassisch linker Positionen mit Ironie und Smartness war schon immer eine Stärke der Engländer - und so kann es eigentlich nur in einem Museum in Großbritannien passieren, dass eine Landarbeiterin aus einem naturalistischen Gemälde aussteigt, um eine zu rauchen.
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