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After four hours of trawling, the mission is all but accomplished. The spoils: a black leather blouson jacket from M. Bogen & Sons of Boston (asking price: 2,000 baht, or $49; final purchase price: 1,200 baht); a pair of olive-green U.S. Army cotton fatigues (700 baht, bargained down...
The brutality of World War I appalled most who were caught up in it. One British volunteer was Paul Nash, a young painter who before the conflict produced gentle, wispy landscapes that recalled English visionaries like Samuel Palmer. After his appointment as an official war artist, though, Nash abandoned pastoral...
On a hot, summer day, artist Tan Swie Hian, 60, stands poised before a four-story-high canvas in the middle of St. Marcos Square, surrounded by Venice's celestial domes. Suddenly, Tan leaps toward the immense sheet, wielding his brush like a swordsman as he swiftly inscribes an immense...
Throughout her career Riley has used her famous optical illusions to make the viewer see things that aren't there. "It's not just to do with what's on the surface but what's inside your head," says Moorhouse. One of her earliest black-and-white works is White...
In TV-speak, shows like CSI are called procedurals because they focus on the technique of police work. But The Wire shows what a misnomer that term is for a sprint in which DNA analysis puts a baddie behind bars in an hour. Here the cops use index cards and...