Paris+, par Art Basel is the fourth event of its kind in the portfolio of Art Basel, the world’s biggest art fair. Other, related editions are regularly held in Hong Kong, Miami Beach, and the Swiss city of Basel, where its tentpole fair is held. Expect big sales and even bigger crowds, as has long been the case with Art Basel’s other editions.
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Preview: Country Life Magazine – Oct 19, 2022
Country Life 19 October 2022 looks at springer spaniels, Manet, the nature writing of ‘BB’ and meets bladesmith Owen Bush.
Masterpiece
Jack Watkins admires Stubbs’s racehorse portrait Gimcrack
With a spring in his step
The Welsh springer is a brainy, loyal dual-purpose spaniel, observes Katy Birchall
Dreams are made of these
Ten field sportsmen and women reveal their perfect days with rod or hawk to Octavia Pollock
Blades of class
Claire Jackson meets imposing bladesmith Owen Bush and dares to swing one of his sharp and gleaming swords
When the heat is on
John Hoyland canvasses gardeners and designers about the plants that best survived the drought
The man that shocked France
Artistic recognition came too late in life for Édouard Manet, regrets Michael Prodger
Previews: The Guardian Weekly – October 21, 2022
Living with long Covid. Plus Xi Jinping’s historic party congress
The October 21, 2022 cover story this week steps back from the news agenda to explore the impact of living with long Covid. For millions of people worldwide who have survived initial infection with the virus, recovery is slow. Symptoms such as breathlessness, fatigue and loss of smell or taste persist for months and, as our science editor Ian Sample explains, treatments that work for some may not be successful for others.
This week delegates to the Chinese Communist party’s 20th congress are in Beijing where they are expected to rubber stamp Xi Jinping’s historic third term as leader. Our big story looks at what the president’s supremacy means for the country and its closest neighbour – Taiwan – which lives in the shadow of Xi’s avowed intention to bring the island back under China’s tutelage.
Travel: Touring Central And Eastern Europe (DW)
From Germany via Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary to Rumania – that’s the route our two DW reporters Shabnam Surita and Laila Abdalla took. They travelled all the way through Central and Eastern Europe to find out how the Russian war against Ukraine is affecting tourism in its neighboring countries.
Cities visited: Wroclaw, Prague, Bratislava, Budapest and Timisoara.
Walking Tour: Tønsberg In Southeastern Norway (4K)
Tønsberg, town, southeastern Norway, at the head of Tønsbergfjorden. Considered to be the oldest town in Norway, Tønsberg was founded c. AD 871 and became an important trading centre. In the 13th century King Håkon Håkonsson built his castle, Tønsberghus, there.
The town was destroyed by fire in 1536 and only in the 18th and 19th centuries did it become a major port and one of Norway’s major shipping and whaling centres. Until the late 1960s it was Norway’s third largest maritime town. Tønsberg remains an industrial and shipping centre, with such diverse concerns as metal shops, shipyards, paper mills, leather processing, and breweries; it is noted especially for its silverware.
Tourist sites include ruins of the Tønsberghus, St. Michael’s Church (c. 1150), the ruins of the Royal Castle (1276), Sem Church (c. 1100), and the Vestfold Museum.
Previews: The Atlantic Magazine – November 2022
The Atlantic Magazine – November 2022 Issue:
The empty promise of the Sixth Amendment, Siegfried & Roy’s rise and fall, a Guggenheim scapegoat, and independence for Puerto Rico. Plus stopping election deniers, Atlanta hip-hop, Orhan Pamuk, ABBA Voyage, a bygone Boston, new fiction, and more.
This Is Not Justice
A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment
The Improbable Rise and Savage Fall of Siegfried & Roy
At the peak of their fame, they were arguably the most famous magicians since Houdini.
The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat
A museum curator was forced out of her job over allegations of racism that an investigation deemed unfounded. What did her defenestration accomplish?
Let Puerto Rico Be Free
The only just future for my home is not statehood, but full independence from the United States.
Books: TLS/Times Literary Supplement – Oct 21, 2022
This week’s issue of the TLS, featuring @George_Berridge , Claire Lowdon and Edmund Gordon on new books by Cormac McCarthy, Barbara Kingsolver and George Saunders, respectively; Gabriel Josipovici on Cézanne; @15thcgossipgirl on Chaucer’s innocence; @rinireg on hatred – and more.
Times Literary Supplement – TLS Website
News: Russian Attacks On Power Plants, Protests In Iran, Ethiopia-Tigray War
We repot on Ukraine’s spiraling energy crisis as a third of the country’s power stations are destroyed. Plus: the Tigray conflict in Ethiopia escalates, a flick through the day’s papers, and the latest business news.
Front Page: The New York Times – October 19, 2022
Russian Barrage Targets Power, Water and Heat for Ukraine’s Civilians
The stepped-up attacks on cities, including through the heavy use of Iranian-made exploding drones, threaten a new sort of humanitarian crisis for Ukrainians this winter.
The Fed, Staring Down Two Big Choices, Charts an Aggressive Path
Federal Reserve officials are barreling toward another three-quarter-point increase in November, and they may decide to do more next year.
Acquittal of Russia Analyst Deals Final Blow to Trump-Era Prosecutor
John H. Durham, the special counsel who investigated the Russia inquiry for more than three years, failed to develop any cases that resulted in convictions.
Futuristic Design: Banff Extraterrestrial Park By Yongwook Seong (2022)
Yongwook Seong created a Sci-Fi themed architecture series (Title: Banff Extraterrestrial Park) by experimenting AI-generated images via Midjourney. The project unfolds from Extraterrestrial 006 visiting Banff and terraforming it to construct a tourist park as part of the Earth revitalization project.
During research, 006 saw Mycelium fungi as an ideal local building material, experimenting it with their stardusts. Sky lounges grow themselves at the extraterrestrial-level strength and stability.
High-Rise Hoodoos became one of the main attractions at Banff Extraterrestrial Park.
Stardust drones are constructing (Ex) terrestrial town. These drones are autonomous builders under the direction of Extraterrestrial Architect.
Yongwook Seong [ joŋuk sʌŋ ] is a designer, holding a Master of Architecture degree from University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His interest lies in various fields including architecture, furniture design, lighting design, visual arts and etc. He lives in Banff, AB, Canada.
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