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An American bookworm on Hydra

Josh Hickey recounts a funny scene that played out in the first year of the Hydra Book Club, a pop-up bookstore he established in 2021 on the first floor of the Hydra Historical Archive and Museum, featuring Greek and foreign books, new and used, on the island.

Hitler statue sells for $17.2 million

A statue of Hitler on his knees by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was auctioned for a record-setting $17.2 million.

The wax sculpture titled Him, called ‘one of the most shocking and disquieting works of art to have emerged in the post-war era’, was expected to make between $10million and $15 million at Christie’s auction house in New York.