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The Game of Thrones: A Screaming Good Time
It’s that time of year again. Adrenaline, excitement, anguish, depression, lethargy, and resignation: these are all common feelings associated with this time. What is so significant about this particular time of year you may ask? Well, now is the time of year when the season finale of the Game of Thrones has come and gone. A whole 9 months to go before we find out who the next unsuspecting victim(s) of George R.R. Martin’s vicious pen will be. And I ask you: how are we supposed to deal with that? Sure, for the next month, there will be lots of debate about what might happen and who may become the…
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Vorhang auf für die Expressionisten im Käfig der wilden Bestien
Die Versteigerung dauerte gerade mal 12 Minuten, dann stand im Mai 2012 beim New Yorker Auktionshaus Sotheby’s die neue Rekordsumme fest: 91,033,826 Millionen Euro (107 Millionen Dollar zuzüglich des Zuschlags für das Auktionshaus) für den letzten sich bis dato in Privatbesitz befindlichen Schrei von Edvard Munch (1863-1944). 70 Jahre lang befand sich das Werk im Privatbesitz der Olsen Familie. Thomas Olsen, ein Nachbar Munchs und Nachkomme der großen norwegischen Reederei-Dynastie, war nicht nur ein Freund, sondern auch einer der größten Förderer des Künstlers. Damit ist das 1895 gemalte Pastell das teuerste je versteigerte Kunstwerk der Welt und verdrängte den bisherigen Rekordhalter, das im Jahr 2010 für 106,5 Millionen Dollar im…
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Lessons to be Learnt from The Wizard of Oz and Matisse
Imagine you’re Dorothy. You have just escaped Auntie Em and a life of rusticated farm-life. You step out of your house, and no more black-and-white, but BOOM! It’s a colour explosion, where you are literally on the other side of the rainbow. And never mind those Munchkins… What would you think, honestly? That you are in some strange kind of fever-dream? Or that you have accidentally ingested a potent hallucinogenic (let’s forget for the moment that Dorothy probably doesn’t know what that is)? Or, simply, that you’ve just gone crazy? I think it fair enough to say that these feelings may be eerily similar to those experienced by Matisse and…
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