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Standing in the serene, sunlit galleries of Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the average art lover would never suspect that behind the sublime beauty of, say, Fra Angelico's Annunciation or Francisco Goya's Women with Two Children, roils a family dispute of such sordidness that it would make Jon and Kate look like the Waltons. But when Borja Thyssen, son of deceased multimillionaire Heinrich Thyssen and his fifth wife, Carmen (Tita) Cervera, decided to lay claim to his inheritance, he unleashed a tide of criminal accusations and ugly recriminations that has kept the editors and producers of Spain...
...nightclubs. El Rastro, the flea market, is one of his regular shopping haunts, as are the surrounding areas for their vintage stores. For a dose of culture and design inspiration, Vevers heads to the Golden Triangle, an intersection of Madrid's three most famous museums?the Prado, the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Reina Sofía. Here are a few more of his favorite destinations...
Five years ago, the city of Duisburg, Germany, vastly upped the ante when it completed its huge Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park, a 570-acre site occupied by massive relics of the former Thyssen Steelworks. Blast furnaces, rail lines, gas tanks--corroded ruins of the industrial age--were reborn as archaeological monuments among newly planted groves and grasslands. And the designer, Peter Latz, didn't hesitate to directly invade the factory precincts with trees and smaller plantings, playgrounds and rock-climbing walls. By that means the derelict factory was woven back into the world of the living. The past, instead...
...real surprise was not the larger-than-life apparition of Herr Teusch and his frayed walrus moustache, but the poster's message: an endorsement from this lifelong Social Democrat of the opposition Christian Democratic Union (cdu). "Did you see the poster? How can anyone who works at Thyssen join that party?" Angela says, recalling the outrage of her colleagues that day. As she draws on a cigarette in her sparsely furnished kitchen, the wiry redhead repeats her response: "I told them, I don't need to see the poster. I've got the original at home." Wolfgang...
...mobilize swing voters with no formal party ties. Union membership is also dwindling. IG Metall, the metalworkers' union, has lost around 25% of its members in the past decade. In Duisburg, the last big test came in 1987, when steelmaker Krupp (which has since merged with former rival Thyssen) decided to shut down its plant in the Rheinhausen section of the city. For almost six months, steelworkers - joined by local students, miners, shopkeepers and police officers - demonstrated to save the plant. The workers lost and Krupp sold the plant to China...