Topic: - on February 2, 2003 at 5:51:00 PM CET
Chinese Pop-Art
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Topic: - on January 27, 2003 at 10:13:48 PM CET
Jail cells made from modern art
A Spanish art historian has found evidence that suggests some Civil War jail cells were built like 3-D modern art paintings in order to torture prisoners.
The cells were built in 1938 for the republican forces fighting General Franco's Fascist Nationalist army, who eventually won power, historian Jose Milicua told the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
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Topic: - on January 2, 2003 at 11:43:10 AM CET
Merkwürdige Existenzen
ERZÄHLUNGEN AUS DEUTSCHLAND
Georg Kleins Deutsche sind merkwürdige Existenzen, ein wenige skurril, wie man es nur von Engländern erwarten würde. Sie haben sich eingerichtet im Leben, mehr schlecht als recht. Klein zeichnet viele dieser Zeitgenossen in seinen zwölf Geschichten fast zart, auf jeden Fall freundlich und verständnisvoll. Der 1949 geborene Autor beobachtet sie wie Angehörige eines fremden Stammes, von einem zivilisatorischen Außenposten aus. Umgeben sind seine Figuren von Resten der Vergangenheit, wie der Berliner Gedächtniskirche, von der Straßenmaler Bübchen sagt: "Angeblich hat man den ruinierten Turm zum Gedächtnis an irgendeinen Krieg zwischen den Neubauten stehen lassen." Welcher Krieg, welches Gedächtnis? Das interessiert einen nicht, der sich täglich sein Geld für Essen und Bierdosen mit dem Zeichnen von Touristen verdienen muss.
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Topic: - on December 7, 2002 at 12:15:29 PM CET
Two Van Gogh paintings stolen
Burglars have stolen two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh from Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, Dutch police say. The stolen paintings are well known to art lovers: Beach at Scheveningen and Leaving the Church at Nuenen. Police have not yet put a value on them.
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Topic: - on December 4, 2002 at 3:50:21 PM CET
Satellite Photos Depict 'Earth As Art'
They look like the work of abstract artists, but the images reflect reality — the rhythmic shapes of mountains, deserts, clouds, fjords, scattered cities and towns turned into brilliant patches of red, green and blue — flashed to earth from a satellite 440 miles in space.
¬> <a href="story.news.yahoo.com"target="_blank">Associated Press
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Topic: - on December 4, 2002 at 2:12:58 PM CET
UFO's in 15th Century Art
Painting of the Madonna and Saint Giovannino, in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, attrbuted to the 15th Century school of Filippo Lippi. Photographs courtesy of CUFOS.
A close-up of the upper left section of the painting shows an object in the sky, and below, a man and dog looking at the object.
¬> UFO
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Topic: - on November 30, 2002 at 2:23:54 PM CET
Sculptures out of match heads
I made my first matchhead in 1982. Kinskihead was a response to a reviewer comparing one of my magazine installations to a weekend modeller making a ship or the Eiffel Tower out of matches. The reviewer talked about matches as if their rightful place was at the bottom of the materials league. I was puzzled by this and immediately attracted to this underdog.
¬> <a href="www.davidmach.com"target="_blank">David Mach
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 12:40:31 AM CET
Happy b-day
God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut
The Writer on His Eightieth Birthday
It was perhaps no mere coincidence in the grand scheme of the universe that the birthday of the great writer Kurt Vonnegut falls on Veterans' Day.
Vonnegut, who becomes an octogenarian Monday, lived through the firebombing of Dresden, Germany, as an American prisoner of war in 1945. This seminal event became not only the basis of his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five, but became the theme of his extensive anti-war writings.
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Topic: - on November 1, 2002 at 11:17:17 AM CET
An all-time-high
Pirelli Calendars
Derek Forsyth had the idea in 1963. The PR-boss of the tyre-manufacturer Pirelli convinced his boss to stop giving away just the usual christmas gifts. No more keyrings, no more pocket knives. Instead - a calendar, with photos of gorgeous women, scantily dressed. Something special, unique. The Pirelli-Calendar was born - and Edition No. 1 was a total flop.
¬> <a href="pirelli.utopiax.org"target="_blank">Pirelli
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:17:24 PM CET
A 40,000-year-old cave painting
seen on a white silica sandstone rock shelter depicting existence of human civilization is seen in Banda district 800 kilometers,(500 miles) southeast of New Delhi, India.
¬> <a href="story.news.yahoo.com"target="_blank">Associated Press
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Topic: - on October 28, 2002 at 4:39:59 PM CET
Sculptures in Pumpkin
by Patrick Moser
I've been told I'm obsessed with carving pumpkins. This is probably true seeing that I will be sculpting well over 40 hours on over a ton of fruit this season. The link will guide you through the unique world of Patrick Moser and the land of
¬> Grumpkins.
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Topic: - on October 23, 2002 at 2:05:30 PM CEST
"Wer Bohlen liest, wird auf eine einsame Insel verbannt"
Hellmuth Karasek ZITAT DES TAGES 23. Oktober 2002 Spiegel online
¬> <a href="www.spiegel.de"target="_blank">Spiegel
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