Greer Lankton was an American artist, whose work was dedicated to creating life-like, posable dolls and figures. Greer Lankton was born Greg Lankton in Flint, Michigan, to a presbytarian minister and his wife.
Greer had a rough childhood, and was picked on for being feminine. It was during her cildhood that she began creating dolls. “It […]

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Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of color and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the twentieth century.
Although he was initially labeled as a Fauve or wild beast, by the 1920s, he […]

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Graham Nicholls (born July 30, 1975) is a British installation artist specialising in immersive art.
He was one of the first artists to explore the possibility of using the Internet for live video streaming and more recently at the forefront of artistic experiments with virtual reality. He is also known for his use of psychology […]

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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or Fenway Court is a museum in Boston, Massachusetts with a collection of over 2,500 works of European, Asian and American art, including paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts.
On the morning of March 18, 1990, thieves disguised as police officers broke into the museum and stole thirteen works of art, […]

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Beginning in the 1920s, financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon began gathering a collection of old master paintings and sculptures with the intent of providing the country with a national art gallery.
Following his death in 1937, Congress in a joint resolution accepted Mellon’s collection and building funds (provided through the A. W. Mellon Educational […]

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A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry. The original Broadway production opened on March 11, 1959 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
The story is based upon a family’s own experiences growing up in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a black woman to be […]

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The Scream is a seminal series of expressionist paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, depicting an agonized figure against a blood red skyline. It is said by some to symbolize the human species overwhelmed by an attack of existential angst. The landscape in the background is Oslofjord, viewed from the hill of Ekeberg, in Oslo […]

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Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. He was the second President of Mensa.
Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question “Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?” Considering himself an average individual without special monetary means […]

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On December 3, 1979, the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio, was the site of one of the worst rock concert tragedies in United States history.
Eleven fans were killed by compressive asphyxia and several dozen others injured in the rush for seating at the opening of a sold-out concert by English rock band The Who. Many […]

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A Return to That Drop-Dead Year 1960 - New York Times
“I’M from Bay Ridge. We have manners,” Peggy, the pony-tailed secretary, scolds the colleague who has just propositioned her in “Mad Men,” the new drama on the cable channel AMC.
Do Peggy’s colleagues at Sterling Cooper, the turbo-powered advertising agency where she works, fall a […]

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