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Risking your health to look cool: Museum of Smoking celebrates stars who light up

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Portraits in the Museum of Smoking. Photograph: Tyler BertramPortraits in the Museum of Smoking. Photograph: Tyler BertramMuseumsThe exhibit, starring figures from Paris Hilton to Carrie Bradshaw, is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to a terrible habit Absolutely no smoking is allowed inside the Museum of Smoking. Sorry, but those are the rules according to the fire code, the exhibit’s curators say. If you want to smoke, you can go outside. Viviana Olen and Matt Harkins run THNK1994, an Instagram account and series of pop-up exhibits dedicated to honoring 2000s-era celebrity kitsch. Read More...

The Auschwitz survivor who returned to rescue her brothers paintings | Family

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FamilyInterviewThe Auschwitz survivor who returned to rescue her brother’s paintingsOren GruenbaumJust before Eva Schloss was separated from her brother on arrival at Auschwitz, he told her of the cache of his art, painted in secret, he had hidden in an attic It was to be Eva’s last conversation with her brother, Heinz. They were human cargo on the railway cattle wagon transporting their parents and a hundred other people, all Jews and Gypsies, to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944. Read More...

The Crown Season-Finale Recap: Iced Out

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The Crown War Season 4 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Crown War Season 4 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s the end of another era, Crown fans. We’ve reached the conclusion of not only the fourth season, but the tenure of the series’s second cast. Read More...