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Aware that the salvage operation would also raise the bodies of the dead Russian officers and men, the CIA had made what it felt was the proper arrangements. The Glomar Explorer was equipped with special cooling facilities that could accommodate up to 100 corpses. In the forward section of the...
In his youth, the effort to reconcile the truth of outdoor painting with his ambition to make "important pictures" on a Salon scale bore odd results, one of which is Women in the Garden. He set up this vast canvas (over 8 ft. high) in his garden and even had...
For a time it appeared that Wepner would chug along until the end of the fight, but the 33-year-old champion lashed out with two combinations to the head that sent Wepner to his rendezvous with the canvas.
Art thefts, of course, are not confined to Italy. In May 1973, during the opening of an ethnographical exhibition in the Konstmuseum at Gothenburg in Sweden, someone made off with a major Matisse, the Girl in White. It was so crudely sliced out of its frame that Matisse's...
Abstract Impressionists have also been called Action Painters because they place so much emphasis on the brush and pen stroke itself. In fact, Jackson Pollock once explained his art by saying, "The source of my painting is the unconscious," and his works, some of which have been made with sticks...