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- Peter Schjeldahl: Leo The Lion
- How the Castelli gallery changed the art world.
- 2010-07-06 to artist, arts, bestof, business, expectation, gallery, management by soobrosa
- The many faces of Pablo Picasso
- Picasso was the first rock-star artist, whose wild visions gripped the public imagination and changed 20th-century art for ever. But his flamboyant personality divided opinion. Was he a playful genius, as some suggest, or a capricious and cruel misanthrop
- 2009-02-10 to arts, bestof, history, picasso, sex by bagoly
- How Muslims Made Europe
- Over the next few centuries, Córdoba alone acquired hundreds of mosques, thousands of palaces, scores of libraries. By the tenth century, those libraries had hundreds of thousands of manuscripts, dwarfing the largest libraries of Christian Europe. The uni
- 2008-12-30 to arts, bestof, history, literature, religion by bagoly
- If You Liked This, Sure to Love That
- But Web sites have this significant advantage over brick-and-mortar stores: They can track everything their customers do. Every page you visit, every purchase you make, every item you rate — it is all recorded. In the early ’90s, scientists working in the
- 2008-12-12 to ai, arts, bestof, data, movies, netflix, prediction, social, software by bagoly
- When Buildings Try Too Hard
- Architects and developers are focused on erecting icons. Why most fall short
- 2008-11-28 to arts, buildings by bagoly
- What Is Art For?
- For the Copy Left, as for Hyde, the last 20 years have witnessed a corporate “land grab” of information — often in the guise of protecting the work of individual artists — that has put a stranglehold on creativity, in increasingly bizarre ways.
- 2008-11-21 to arts, bestof, copyright, lewis hyde, profile, story by bagoly
- The Washington insider who made Obama rich
- It happened circuitously. In 1990, Obama was already enough of a celebrity – the first black president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review – for the New York publishers Simon & Schuster to offer a “six-figure contract” for a proposed autobiography.
- 2008-10-29 to arts, literature, society by bagoly
- Emily Nussbaum meets Ron Galella, the first true paparazzo
- Richard Burton sent goons to steal his film; Brigitte Bardot had her boyfriend hose him down. Most notoriously, Jackie Onassis won a lawsuit against him in 1973, a court order for him to stay 25 feet away from her and her children.
- 2008-10-29 to arts, history, photo, story by bagoly
- Annie Gets Her Shot
- Four of the most memorable Annie Leibovitz shots—of Mick Jagger, Demi Moore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Queen Elizabeth II—gain added power from the stories behind them, shedding as much light on Leibovitz’s portrait-making process as on her subjects.
- 2008-09-15 to arts, photo, story by bagoly
- The exiles who wowed America Clive James TLS
- How exiled European artists reacted to the energy and freedom of the US
- 2008-09-05 to america, arts, history, society by bagoly
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