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BMW to sell luxury cars for less online

The BMW i3 concept car at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show in January. (John T. Greilick / Detroit News)BMW will sell cars over the Web for the first time as the world's largest maker of luxury vehicles seeks an inexpensive way to reach more buyers to recoup spending on its electric models.A direct online sales platform for BMW's new I sub-brand will be unique in an industry where, outside of small-scale experiments, competitors leave Internet orders for......

Grabbing a cup of coffee Dining out at your favourite restaurant Spending some time at the museum Meeting at a popular fast food centre Relaxing at the beach Going to a game Going out on a date Taking a drive around town I am thankful I belong to another generation !!!! “It’s become appallingly clear that......

An article about an artist who sneaks around London plastering verses of poetry over advertising billboards published in The Independent earlier this year elicited huge interest, gaining more than 2.5K ‘Likes’ on Facebook and starting a social networking frenzy.Among your comments were: “I love an intelligent response to advertising. Who asked the public if we want our faces filled with adverts as we walk the streets?” and “Hooray!......

'It's wisest to pick someone whom you cannot break up with or divorce.' Photograph: Gary Powell/Getty ImagesTattoos are permanent reminders of temporary feelings – at least if you believe the report in Thursday's Daily Mail, which looked at "embarrassing" matching couple tattoos – designs that complement or complete each other across two, romantically involved bodies.Yet there are millions of people who feel no embarrassment about the tattoos......

THE ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K JeromeWave a picture of the Big Ben, and almost everybody goes ‘ah, London’. Ditto the Buckingham palace guards, red telephone boxes and road-master buses. It’s a city that’s so familiar, so etched in our collective consciousness that we almost believe we would never need a guidebook to that part of the world. But if, in the run-up to the Olympics, you were looking for one, may we recommend......

We're familiar with seeing tight leather on smoking hot women, and weird old men, but it's a first for us seeing a leather bound Ferrari F430.There seems to be a lot of fuss over this leather bound Ferrari F430 in the UK with both The Sun and The Daily Mail reporting about it recently.However, this isn’t a new car by any means as US motoring blog Jalopnikreported on the F430 way back in August last year. It’s a pretty cool,......

Art can be expensive, especially art large enough to fill up big blank walls. Luckily for those of us with much more time than money, it is very easy to create art yourself that looks great and won't break the bank. Best of all, even if you think you don't have an artistic bone if your body you can still create some pretty beautiful pieces with a little creativity and the some basic materials. Here are 10 great looking wall art ideas......

smallerLargerTacoma Art Museum, Promised gift of Erivan and Helga HaubFrederic Remington's 'Conjuring Back the Buffalo' is going to the Tacoma Art Museum.Growing up in the 1930s, German supermarket billionaire Erivan Haub devoured the Wild West novels of Karl May, his country's counterpart to James Fenimore Cooper. Now Mr. Haub and his wife, Helga, are giving the bulk of their collection of Western art to the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington state.......

Drawings Said to Be Caravaggio’s Raise Doubts

As grand academic claims go, the researchers who say they have found dozens of drawings by the young Caravaggio chose a rather unorthodox way of making theirs. Breaking news about the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia and more. Go to Arts Beat » A sortable calendar of noteworthy cultural events in the New York region, selected by Times critics. Go to Event Listings » On Friday the researchers, Maurizio Bernardelli Curuz and Adriana Conconi Fedrigolli, made their findings public in two e-books — each available in four languages — for sale on Amazon.com. They also have......

Knoedler Scandal Continues: Former Bear Stearns Director Slaps Gallery With a Forgery Lawsuit

Late Friday, new details about the ongoing Knoedler Gallery scandal emerged, in the form of another lawsuit by a collector who claims to have been sold a forged Willem de Kooning painting. It is the third such lawsuit filed against the gallery in recent months. The interesting part about the case, brought by Irving Place Capital CEO and former Bear Stearns senior managing director John D. Howard, is that the plaintiff alleges forgery on the basis that Knoedler profited too much from the sale, therefore the work couldn’t be authentic. According to the filing, Knoedler paid $750,000 for......

Christie's Images Ltd 2012The designer's collection includes this statue of the Nile River god.French haute couturier Hubert de Givenchy once dressed style icons such as Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly. But since the dawn of his fashion career more than a half-century ago, the Frenchman (who is now 85) has harbored a lesser-known passion: the engravings of the 17th-century sculptor and collector François Girardon. Girardon was a sculptor for......

Flame Grilled: Damien Hirst work is on show at Burger King in Leicester SquareThe Whopper-maker expects thousands of visitors to view the artwork for free, during what Burger King is labelling "Britain's biggest summer of sport".The work has been installed and will be on display until at least the end of the year.Hirst's loan of the artwork to Burger King is a big coup for the brand, as it attempts to achieve cut-through as rival McDonalds blitzes......

Diabetes drug makes brain cells grow

The widely used diabetes drug metformin comes with a rather unexpected and alluring side effect: it encourages the growth of new neurons in the brain. The study reported in the July 6th issue of Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press publication, also finds that those neural effects of the drug also make mice smarter. See Also: Health & Medicine Brain Tumor Stem Cells Nervous System Mind & Brain Brain Injury Intelligence Neuroscience Strange Science Reference Neural development Stem cell treatments Diabetes mellitus type 2 Embryonic stem cell The discovery is an important step toward therapies that......

:If Virginia Woolf had been writing about children, she might still have argued that a room of one's own is necessary for imagination and creativity to reach their full potential. As my mom (and her poor couch cushions) will attest, every kid dreams of having a hideout. Whether they're pillow-and-blanket constructions that get torn down in a matter of hours or more permanent places nestled among branches and leaves, forts and playspaces are the ultimate......

Adventure Journal is at it again! With lovely photos from "weekend cabins" around the world, it's impossible to look away (sometimes for hours) from their architecture-themed posts. Recently, they featured this treehouse-inspired hideaway created by Joel Allen and "an aging hippie named Old Man John," in Whistler, B.C., as an organic creation that would match the beauty around ......

To me, hammocks are the epitome of relaxation. Beach views aren't included when you hang one in your home or backyard, but you'll feel like you're on vacation once you put your feet up in that hammock.Given that you can hardly do more than read or sleep in a hammock, they offer a laid-back way to lie back and enjoy whatever space you're in. In a backyard, the benefits are obvious. (If you don't have any trees to use, there are freestanding......

Spanish Tourism Industry Prepares for Difficult Summer

Spain's tourism industry is bracing itself for a painful slowdown in bookings this summer, driven by a steep decline in local tourism, according to the country's leading hotel association. Reservations by Spanish vacationers for the month of July are 30% lower than last year, amid persistently high unemployment and a protracted economic recession, said Juan Molas, president of the Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodations. An influx of visitors from Russia and other countries in Eastern Europe has compensated somewhat for the decline in local tourism, but weak local demand is......

Holidaymakers in Spain this summer are facing a surprise new airport tax imposed by the Spanish government

Holidaymakers in Spain this summer are facing a surprise new airport tax imposed by the Spanish government as it tries to balance its books. Some airlines are passing the new departure tax on to passengers, even if they booked their flights months ago. Some passengers have received emails telling them either to pay an extra charge of up to seven euros (£6) per person - or to cancel their flights. Other airlines are deciding whether to absorb the cost themselves. The budget airline Ryanair said Spain's 2012 budget, passed into law at the end of June, obliged airlines to pay increased taxes.......

As well as running their Barcelona-based design practice TwoPoints.Net, Martin Lorenz and Lupi Asensio have also been teaching design students at various different international design institutions for the best part of ten years. Now the duo are about to fire up their own teaching initiative called Design Werkstatt (Design Workshop)..."Since 2009 we have devised, organised and directed two different postgraduate and masters degree......