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DIED. Mose Tolliver, believed to be in his 80s, factory worker turned folk artist known as Mose T who became one of the leading figures in the Outsider Art, or self-taught, movement; in Montgomery, Ala. Tolliver began painting compulsively in the 1960s after an accident at a furniture factory left his legs crushed. His lyrical pieces, which he made with house paint and hung in his front yard using dental floss, first drew curious buyers, then eager galleries. The paintings--of bold, bright, sometimes grotesque women, birds, flowers, snakes and trees--are now in the permanent collections of major...
...exodus has forced many universities to fast-track underqualified teachers to full professorship, or simply to suspend entire departments. This means Iraq's students are getting a poor education, with disastrous consequences for the country's future. It's hard to believe now, but in the 1960s and '70s, Iraq's academia was the envy of the Arab world. Now, it lies in tatters...
...working on an exhibition called ‘Solitaire,’ which focuses on three painters who came of age in New York City during the 1960s: Lee Lozano, Joan Semmel, and Sylvia Plimack Mangold,” Molesworth said. “It is very much a project that stems from my interest in the oxymoronic category of feminist painting...
...said to myself when I saw the pictures of a flood of trash floating on a Jakarta river and bike commuters wearing masks to protect themselves from toxic diesel fumes in Kanpur, India. Those are the same scenes we saw in Kitakyushu and other cities in the 1960s and '70s, when Japan was notorious as the archipelago of kogai, or environmental disruption. I was one of the victims of the choking smog at that time. Asians are starting to put more pressure on their governments to tackle staggering environmental problems, but time is running out. Having seen Japan recover from...