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Time: 150 Years of the Atlantic Magazine

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To celebrate its 150 years anniversary U.S. Magazine “The Atlantic” has put together a selection of the best articles from its vast archives. As The Atlantic was always popular with the best writers you find well known names like W. Heisenberg, A. Miller, J.D. Watson, C. S. Lewis, N. Mailer, H. Münsterberg, A. M. Schlesinger, M. Twain, V. Bush, V. Woolf, A. Camus, R. D. Kaplan, R. Frost, J. M. Keynes, P. F. Drucker, M. L. King Jr., T. Roosevelt, J. F. Kennedy – just to name a few.

We have put together the pretty long overall list of the articles selected by area of interest. And the best of course is that most of those articles are available online without a subscription…

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Comix: All Tintin cars with real world counterparts

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If you like “Tintin BDs” as much as we do this “web site” is a must. It shows all cars used in the comic books – currently 154 – sorted by album and their real world counterparts…

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Giant Robot: New exhibition announced

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San Francisco based art gallery has today announced a new exhibition with artists from indie comics, crafting, street-art, and fine-art backgrounds. The 8×10 show at GRSF will be on display from February 17 – March 14….Giant Robot is proud to present 8×10, a group art show with a diverse, dazzling array of participants using the rawest of writing instruments (pencils, pens, crayons, markers, etc.) and a stock frame size. Contributors come from…

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Urban Life: The Touch project in Brussels

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Touch was an urban interactive installation by LAb[au] that took place from 26 December 2006 until 15 January 2007 on the Dexia-Tower and Place Rogier in Brussels, Belgium. The 145 m high Dexia-Tower with 4200 windows each individually color-lightened by RGB-led bars was turned into an immense display…

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Art: Shary Boyle’s miniature sculptures

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You might call a porcelain sculpture holding its own head a bit morbid, but the work of Canadian artist “Shary Boyle” is definitely outstanding. A selection of her miniature sculptures from the last seven years is currently on display at the…

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Art: Underground artist Banksy gives away hi-res images of his work for free

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UK underground artist Banksy who created quite an uproar with his exhibition in L.A. last autumn, has put up a series of high resolution images of his work for download from “his web site”. Banksy, who’s painting are selling for above USD 100,000 lately, seems to have gotten fed up with all those selling pirated prints of his work on eBay. Looks like pirates don’t like to get pirated themselves…

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