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The White Motor Company was born in the corner of a Cleveland manufacturing company after the owner, Thomas White, bought a Locomobile steam car but found the boiler to be unreliable. His son, Rollin, determined to improve the design, eventually...
The Jaguar XK-E Roadster was an inspiration to Enzo Ferrari, who called the E-Type “the most beautiful car ever made.” In 2008, The Daily Telegraph agreed with Ferrari when it ranked the E-type first on a list of the world’s...
Two men have confessed to stealing, and then returning, a painting by Gustav Klimt in a bizarre twist to one of Italy’s most mysterious cases of stolen art. Experts confirmed on Friday the authenticity of Portrait of a Lady, which was found concealed in a wall of the Ricci Oddi modern art gallery, the same gallery in Piacenza from which it went missing almost 23 years ago.
“Genius: Picasso” is a telling title in how it orders those two words. Though last year’s debut season of the National Geographic anthology series didn’t feel the need to incorporate “Einstein” into its name, the second season makes sure the brand takes priority over the subject — and the creative elements follow suit.
It is almost a cliché, the story of an unsuspecting cleaner disposing of a valuable work of art without realizing it. After a London Underground train was graffitied earlier this week by the British street artist Banksy, cleaners dutifully carrying out their jobs wiped away the piece “due to [London Underground’s] strict anti-graffiti policy,” says a spokesman for Transport for London (TFL).
