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Oct 25, 2010

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Spy Magazine was a monthly satirical publication founded by Kurt Andersen, Graydon Carter, and Tom Phillips, in 1986. It was obsessed with wealthy people and decadence, especially in New York City. It distinguished itself from other publications in part because it measured the people it wrote about by a moral code, and was mercilessly harsh...

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Oct 21, 2010

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London Transport Museum’s Senior Curator Claire Dobbin is giving a talk, 100 Years of Iconic Posters, at Covent Garden’s new Apple Store, on Wednesday 27 October. “The illustrated talk will show highlights from a century of outstanding design, which transformed the Tube into London’s longest art gallery. Featured artists include Man Ray, Graham Sutherland, Howard...

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Oct 19, 2010

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The holo-film was produced at the behest of the ad agency KesselsKramer for the Dutch Postal Service. “It’s Anton Corbijn’s finger,” KesselsKramer’s Kyra Müller clarifies. “We asked him to shoot this film, and what happened was a sort of spontaneous interaction between the director and the actress. It was completely on the spot.” The stamp came about...

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Oct 19, 2010

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What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a...