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...August? Let's Go to Iowa! The Iowa State Fair annually draws turkey callers, cow-chip throwers and piemakers from across the Hawkeye State. This year's fair, which begins next week, is attracting a crowd of competitors from farther afield: possible White House contenders hunting for votes ahead...
...Klein, who also run a Tokyo-based architecture firm together, devised the evenings in 2003 as a way of getting to know and share ideas with their professional peers. Three years later, and what at first seemed like a cliquey Tokyo phenomenon is now extending its reach as far afield as Shanghai, Vienna and Buenos Aires. One of the first cities to catch on was London. "We held our first two events in August last year," says Marcus Fairs, co-organizer of the London event and editor of Icon magazine. "Even though it was the middle of the summer...
...Klein, who also run a Tokyo-based architecture firm together, devised the evenings in 2003 as a way of getting to know and share ideas with their professional peers. Three years later, and what at first seemed like a cliquey Tokyo phenomenon is now extending its reach as far afield as Shanghai, Vienna and Buenos Aires. One of the first cities to catch on was London. "We held our first two events in August last year," says Marcus Fairs, co-organizer of the London event and editor of Icon magazine. "Even though it was the middle of the summer...
...illuminated a darker side of this art movement, documenting cases of well-known artists being lured away from desert communities by unscrupulous dealers, to be plied with fast money, drugs and alcohol in exchange for hastily completed canvases, often of poor quality. The message is worrying buyers as far afield as France. "'dreamtime artist hit by nightmare of sex and fraud'-did you see that in the paper?" asks Arts d'Australie gallery dealer St?phane Jacob over the phone from Paris. "It's really something that is affecting the credibility of Aboriginal art overseas...
...FURTHER AFIELD You can find podcasts covering poetry, video games and everything in between...