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Paris was the stomping ground of Cubist creators Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, so it must be the city in which the angular arts style reached its full potential, right? Not so, says Zdenek Lukes of the National Heritage Department at the Office of the Czech President. "Paris is where Cubism was born," he says, "but Prague is where it spilled over into architecture and design, something that didn't happen elsewhere...
...result, Prague is today known not only for paintings by Emil Filla or sculpture by Otto Gutfreund, both Czech Cubist artists, but also for about a dozen Cubist buildings and countless objects of applied art. Now it also hosts a restored Cubist caf? that first opened in 1912 and closed 12 years later. Grand Caf? Orient is the joint effort of Czech restaurateur and art collector Rudolf Brinek and the National Gallery in Prague. It reopened in March on the second floor of the House at the Black Madonna, a Cubist building downtown that also contains a gallery of Czech...
...43pm - Leverett - apple. The ‘Hare Today’ House newsletter on the table discusses hairy stones, the Golden Girls, a Czech jailbird with priapism, and the Masters’ monkeybread...
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...decommissioned Routemasters and reselling them for as little as $7,500, although a bus in top condition will set you back as much as $19,000. Ensign has sold over 150 Routemasters in the last year alone, some to bus buffs as far afield as Dubai and the Czech Republic. Steve Newman, one of Ensign's directors, says that many buyers are eager to preserve a piece of London history. "If they were buildings, they'd be listed" as historical landmarks, Newman explains. Imaginative transport fans have converted the vehicles into restaurants, bars and even mobile homes. If you think...