Art

The Card Players Come Up Trumps

The Wowster on the world's most expensive painting...Cezanne's The Card Players A couple of peasants playing cards. So Cezanne couldn't resist and ended up drawing one of his most loved paintings...The Card Players. Now the Gulf Kingdom of Qatar has dipped into its piggy bank and bought the painting for a new world record of £160million. In doing so, they beat two of ...

Seize the Day

The purpose of The Club Wow. To Seize the Day. The concept Imagine a new social network came on to the scene which literally fed your passions if you were into any, some or all of the following. Culture: Music, Stage, Cinema, Art, Performance ...

The Charms of Wroclaw

Marie Grant takes pleasure in Wroclaw before the barbarians arrive. ON FRIDAY June 8th the UEFA European Championships 2012 – co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine - will kick off at Wroclaw's purpose-built Municipal Stadium. The team sheets can't be predicted - ...

Aesthetic Perfection

Phil McCarron sees beauty where others fail to look. BEAUTY IS purely a subjective matter.  However, rightly or wrongly, as a society we accept a certain type of style and look as "beauty"… a Barbie doll stereotype surrounded by sportsmen.   Barbie’s are plastic, ...

The CD Is Dead. Long Live the CD!

Rhian Farnworth reports on the death of the CD. THE CD is dead, long live the iPod! With MP3 players and smartphones being a more convenient digital solution - and Vinyl still refusing to die for people who prefer something physical - ...

Pax Romana breaks out at Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum

Clare Grant catches a dose of imperium romanum at the Glasgow's Hunterian Museum. ALTARS TO MERCURY. The Spirit of Britain itself. A statuette of Mars. A long-fingered stone totem for soldiers called Silenus who passed Bacchus the wine jar. Who knew ...

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