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...races (including a Formula Three race and a World Touring Car Championship) as well as motorcycle events (among them the Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix). Drivers will be negotiating the 3.9-mile (6.2-km) Guia Circuit, which thankfully skirts the precarious old streets that date back to the Portuguese colonial era but nonetheless presents plenty of deceptive bends. It also tapers, at its narrowest point, to a mettle-testing 23 ft (7 m) across. While the final lineup is still being confirmed, if recent years are anything to go by, spectators can expect to see lots of rising stars of motor...
...first place. As a shy, gangly teenager, he would go to gigs on his own and take his father's camera, he says, "purely to get close to the musicians without looking like an idiot." From there, Corbijn developed into one of the most highly regarded photographers of his era, with stars as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, the Arctic Monkeys, Robert De Niro and Clint Eastwood lining up to be his subjects. His portraits have been exhibited in art galleries around the world and in 14 sturdy books. But in fact most of us own a Corbijn...
...here is a sweeping generalization, but perhaps a useful one: Western societies are cultures of personal revelation and exposure, while Muslim cultures are traditionally structured around protecting honor and propriety. On our shrunken planet, the two codes bump up against one another, throwing each other into relief. The same era that's given us the tell-all circus that is Big Brother and a cybervideo of Paris Hilton in flagrante also seems to have produced a striking rise in Western Muslims taking up the veil. The more of private life Western pop culture reveals, the more Muslim women decide...
Gerrit Dou's Astronomer by Candlelight is familiar to any fan of 17th-century Dutch masters. But if a recent claim by heirs to one of the most prominent World War II-era Dutch art dealers succeeds, Dou's painting will be taken from Leiden's De Lakenhal Museum and returned to the family of Nathan Katz. In all, Katz' four children are claiming 225 paintings and two tapestries from museums and institutions throughout the Netherlands...
...triggered a major political battle in the Romanian capital. Members of the governing coalition regard the restitution of the castle as compensation for the injustice that the Habsburg family suffered under the communists and see the Parliament's demand to nullify the restitution as a relapse into the communist era: "This decision is an embarrassment for the Romanian Parliament," Marton Arpad, MP for the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) told TIME: "We fought 17 years to get away from Communism, now we seem to be going straight back." He called the vote in parliament a "violation...