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Permalink textsfromhillaryclinton: Thanks to @CapitolHillKid and @AdamConner for finding the photo. Original image by Kevin Lamarque for Reuters.
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When you’re president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot… And so if your main argument for how to grow the economy is ‘I knew how to make a lot of money for investors,’ then you’re missing what this job is about.

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Permalink Thomas Demand “Junior Suite” (2012)
Permalink Vernissage Monumenta Daniel Buren au Grand Palais, Paris
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Permalink Vote for the sheep Norbert to be decapitated by the guillotine or be spared: http://die-guillotine.com/ Die Guillotine by Iman Rezai and Rouven Materne just sold for 1,75mio €
Permalink newsweek-paris-france: Jubilation at Place de la Bastille, Paris, France: Celebrating the election of François Hollande and the defeat of President Nicolas Sarkozy the night of May 6, 2012. Tracy McNicoll took this and more amazing shots you can see on Rues de Paradis. For her article on the elections and Hollande as the anti-Sarkozy, see The Daily Beast. For links to more coverage from Newsweek & The Daily Beast visit The Shadowland Journal.
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interesting article on the last "scream" by Munch in private hands, sold last night at Sotheby's for highest price ever paid at an art auction

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VOGUE May Day Beauty: Lily of the Valley

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by Sarah Brown

As the story goes, on the first of May 1561, King Charles of France—who was ten at the time—was presented with a fragrant bunch of muguet: the delicate green sprigs capped with tiny white bells that we know as lily of the valley. It was a gesture signifying luck and…

(Source: Vogue)

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Permalink Picasso’s theatre curtain “Parade” (1917) was hung the day before yesterday at Centre Pompidou Metz - and I was there. it hasn’t been shown in France for over twenty years, because with a size of over 170m2 it was too big to fit into any museum space. the piece is very fragile and so it took a whole day to unwrap, roll out and hang it up.
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