Word: artisticness
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...Republicanism and to the nation.... Eisenhower’s statesmanship has been the kind that can unify a nation, Nixon’s antics are intensely partisan. Eisenhower’s policy has been generally liberal; Nixon’s real policy is totally elusive. As a quick-change artist of the worst sort, Nixon’s entire political career makes current support for Eisenhower’s Republicanism highly questionable...
...aspiring artist visiting new York City in the late '60s, Sydney-born George Gittoes had his 15 minutes with the emperor of pop art. "I can remember having a discussion with Andy Warhol," he recalls, "and I said, 'As far as I'm concerned, more people watch the news than anything else. To me, news is pop art.' And Andy agreed." In the decades since, Gittoes, 56, has pushed that concept beyond the usual 15 minutes of fame...
...Traveling to many of the world's trouble spots, the artist has documented the atrocities of Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda in a hyper-real mix of painting, drawing and diary-making. A typical Gittoes canvas, with its Goya-like grotesqueries, can make Picasso's Guernica look like a picnic. But on arriving in Iraq in 2003, the artist felt a new medium was required to capture the surreality of what he was experiencing. Meeting Baghdad's gangsta rap?spouting U.S. Marines, Gittoes was inspired to shoot the musical documentary Soundtrack to War (2004), in which mainly black soldiers sing straight...
...blame for the shortfall, and as the semester went on, it became readily apparent voter and candidate apathy were just a small part of the UC’s publicity shortcomings.In mid-October, the UC and the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) announced, with great fanfare, that hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean would headline the fall’s major campus concert. “We are confident that the HCC has it right this year,” we exclaimed at the time. “Wyclef will certainly stir significant interest.” Ultimately, however, the concert...
...here--Sternberg swathed Dietrich's wry sexuality in silk, feathers, a gorilla suit and his camera's soft-focus devotion. As his films got more deliriously abstract, she got restless, and the two parted in 1935. Their legacy is these films: a uniquely frilly and profound record of an artist's obsession with his model...