2008 European Championships
Literature | In 1937 appearance, Joyce joined Hungarians ‘in the middle’
Jun 16 | Why has a 1937 alignment of literary stars not featured in Vienna in the European Championship’s cultural program? Vladimir Nabokov lectures in a Parisian literary salon and espies James Joyce “sitting, arms folded and glasses glinting, in the midst of the Hungarian football team.”
Art | At Vienna stadium installation, ‘you will only be nude for a short period of time’
Avant garde photographer Spencer Tunick has requested 2,008 nude participants—each with football—for a May 11 “installation” at Ernst Happel Stadion in Vienna, site of the Euro 2008 final. (Apr 14)
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