Topic: ART - on March 31, 2003 at 5:34:51 PM CEST
The Museum of Unworkable Devices
This, like many pages at this site, is a work in progress. Expect revisions and addition of new material. Since these pages are written in bits and pieces over a period of time, there's bound to be some repetition of ideas. This may be annoying to those who read from beginning to end, and may be just fine for those who read these pages in bits and pieces.
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Topic: ART - on March 26, 2003 at 7:21:07 PM CET
Sonne bringt Schneemann über´s Jahr
Technische Fachhochschule Berlin - Mit dem Frühling scheint der Winter vergessen. Nicht so an der Technischen Fachhochschule Berlin, denn dort wird ein Schneemann über den Sommer gebracht. Die Sonne selbst - sonst natürlicher Feind des Schneemanns - ist es, die dem freundlichen weißen Mann hilft, einen kühlen Kopf zu bewahren.
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Topic: ART - on March 26, 2003 at 7:20:01 PM CET
Snowman will last until next winter - thanks to the sun
A German artist has made a snowman which he says will survive until next winter - thanks to the sun.
Joerg Jozwiak's snowman is being kept in a glass-doored, solar-powered fridge.
The classic three-ball snowman will be kept at a steady -5C thanks to solar cells.
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Topic: ART - on March 14, 2003 at 7:13:36 PM CET
Künstler will in Berlin "Hundebordell" eröffnen
Ein deutscher Aktionskünstler will in Berlin eine "Hundebordell" eröffnen. "Wenn die Menschen ins Bordell gehen können, warum nicht die Hunde?" sagte der Euskirchener Karl-Friedrich Lentze heute auf Anfrage.
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Topic: - on March 8, 2003 at 9:48:37 PM CET
City artist's £1 painting auctioned for £75,000
AN elderly woman who spent £1 on a painting by an Edinburgh artist at a household clearance sale because it would look "nice" in her kitchen has sold it for £75,250.
The owner, in her 60s, had no idea the painting hanging over her kitchen sink for the past 40 years was a work by Scottish Colourist Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell.
She had bought it in the 1960s when a neighbour in Co Wicklow, Ireland, died. She said she liked to look at it while she washed up.
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Topic: - on March 4, 2003 at 7:53:12 PM CET
German artist to open doggie brothel
A German artist has applied for a licence to open a brothel in Berlin for sexually frustrated dogs and says it will be the first of its kind anywhere.
Karl-Friedrich Lenze, 54, said he planned to charge dog owners 25 euros (17 pounds) per half hour of happiness.
"If dogs can't get what they want they get cranky -- just like people," Lenze told
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Topic: - on March 3, 2003 at 9:49:02 AM CET
History repeats itself
Fire hits Alexandria library
A fire has broken out in Egypt's newly-opened Alexandria library, and 29 people have been rushed to local hospitals suffering from smoke inhalation.
The fire was blamed on a short circuit.
The extent of damage at Bibliotheca Alexandrina has yet to be determined, but the fire appeared to be restricted to fourth-floor administrative offices.
Sixteen fire engines rushed to the scene and put out the blaze in about 45 minutes. Fifteen ambulances were seen outside the evacuated library.
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Topic: - on March 3, 2003 at 9:41:54 AM CET
Dali painting stolen from a jail. No suspects yet
A small ink-and-pencil sketch of Jesus Christ drawn by artist Salvador Dali was stolen from the lobby of the men's jail at Rikers Island and replaced with a copy.
Jail employees reported the theft when they noticed the sketch they walk past frequently looked strangely bright and too new, jail officials said Sunday. The original was drawn in 1965.
"They're not art experts, but they do see it every day," said Tom Antenen, a correction department spokesman.
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Topic: - on March 2, 2003 at 12:26:48 PM CET
GEORGE ORWELL
(pen name for Eric Arthur Blair) was born on June 25, 1903 in Motihari in Bengal, India and died on January 21, 1950 in London, England at forty-seven...
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Topic: - on February 24, 2003 at 2:24:22 PM CET
Che's snapshots
Photographs by the revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara are on show at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg.
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Topic: - on February 8, 2003 at 1:13:41 PM CET
Van Gogh original nearly sold for $80
A missing portrait by Vincent Van Gogh was valued at as little as $80 by a Tokyo auction house this week - before the mistake was discovered.
The Shinwa Art Auction Company was planning to auction off the small portrait of a peasant woman for between 10,000 and 20,000 yen ($83 to $167) after struggling to establish the identity of the artist.
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Topic: - on February 7, 2003 at 11:10:11 PM CET
Anonymous auction item revealed as Van Gogh painting
An anonymous painting that is scheduled to be auctioned off Saturday, has proven to be an early work of Vincent van Gogh, according to the results of analysis conducted by the Amsterdam-based Gogh Art Museum.
The reserve price of the painting, which depicts the profile of a middle-aged woman, was initially set at 10,000-20,000 yen, even though experts said it is actually worth some 30 million yen. The reserve price of the work was raised to only 3 million yen.
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