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Back in 1971, Yoko Ono announced an exhibition at New York's MoMA which she cheekily titled Museum of Modern (F)art. When people arrived at the building, they were greeted outside by a man wearing a sandwich board which proclaimed that Ono's project...
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Let me pose you a little brainteaser based on the interior design of this Brooklyn restaurant. What links Brigitte Bardot, Asterix, Michel Houllebecq and Serge Gainsbourg? No prizes for pointing out that they are all French, I'm afraid. Any other...
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Brooklyn native Fred McDarrah bought his first camera at the 1939 World's Fair in New York, but his budding interest in photography didn't have long to blossom before he was called to action, serving as a US Army paratrooper in occupied Japan at the...
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How do posters work? You put bit of blu-tack at each corner and stick them on the wall, right? But hang on a minute, there's more to it than that. A new exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York is explaining the finer...
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While most of the Commonwealth is celebrating Boxing Day on 26 December — when householders traditionally left gift boxes out for the postie, the milkman and the like — in rural Ireland a different custom is observed. Wren Day sees young men...
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Born in Harlem in 1924 and growing up poor in Brooklyn, Jerome Liebling had it tough. It only got tougher for the young man when, having dropped out of his first semester at Brooklyn College to enlist in World War Two, he was posted to the notorious...
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The Upper East Side of Manhattan is known as a bit of a stright-laced kind of neighbourhood, but if anyone could get the locals to lighten up and enjoy life a little more, it's the two lads from Cork who co-own this gastropub. The Irish influence at...
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Denver artist Evan Hecox has been on his travels, and the experiences he's assimilated in the unfamiliar cities of America and beyond have formed the basis of a new collection of works entitled Far. Hecox has ventured to all sorts of places, from...
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I'm reliably informed, by persons far more knowledgable than I on the subject of art theory, that in the work of Matthew Palladino we are encountering “the language of ubiquitous interfaces” using elements “repeated and arranged into elusive...
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DJs mixing; MCs rapping; the flat-tops; the fashion; the perilously acrobatic breakdancing: what started in the Bronx and Manhattan in the 1970s soon exploded out of the New York boroughs and became a worldwide cultural phenomenon. Hip-hop was...
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Even if you can't put a name to it, it's certain you've seen the painting technique known as cangiantismo before. Developed during the Rennaissance, it's a way of changing the hue of a colour within a model to introduce light and shade, but in the...
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With so many different identities, it's a wonder Kalup Linzy can keep track of who he is supposed to be at any one time. The New York-based artist has no less than 22 alter-egos that he has carefully developed since he began the ongoing project in...
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In the heart of downtown Zapopan, a neighbouring city of Guadalajara Mexico, Zorra Zapopan is the second outpost of Cervecería Zorra, a stunning project brought to fruition by esteemed studios Taller Dinamita and Taller Binario that combines a...
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Soft-launched 15 March, following an intensive restoration, Barcelona’s Grand Hotel Central has emerged as a triumph of contemporary luxury; a homage to its own weighty history and grandeur, yet breathing the fresh air of modern Catalunya....
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Opening just last month on Barcelona's Via Laietana, the road that separates the city's El Born and El Gòtic neighbourhoods, restaurant Can Bo completes the reimagined Grand Hotel Central; the street-level gastronomic concept focussing on tapas and...
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From first stepping into the kitchen aged 10, to creating supper club 'Eureka' in the family home, Flynn McGarry went on to open his first permanent fine dining restaurant, Gem, in New York City's Lower East Side at 19 years old, before going on to...
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Can you get free real estate classes online in Georgia? Absolutely. Online platforms offer a wide range of free learning materials across various industries; including real estate education. If you are just starting out and looking for free or...
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Whether you want to start sewing for the first time or you want to upgrade your current sewing machine, you might be wondering what’s on the market. Wouldn’t it be great if sewing machines were a one-type-fits-all kind of thing? However, the...
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Getting the perfect hair color can be tricky, especially when using hair dye shampoos. Uneven color results are a common issue, but there are strategies to avoid them. To minimize color unevenness, it's important to prep the hair beforehand, ideally...
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Dogs are more than just pets; they are part of the family. Keeping them healthy and active requires attention to their diet and gut health. Many dog owners are turning to digestive probiotic chews for dogs as a practical solution to support their...