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...Perhaps the most influential priest in the shrine's history was Yuzon, an avid painter and powerful art patron who lived there in the late 1700s and whose portrait is among the shown works. He commissioned not just Jakuchu's flowers but also the fine mid-Edo-style door screens in the building's more public areas, where the priest would receive guests. Painted in the late 18th century by Okyo Maruyama, each screen has a different theme, such as cranes, tigers, wise men and waterfalls. Okyo was an important transitional figure in Japanese art, as painting moved toward...
...people take her picture, the boy she likes hasn’t kissed her yet and her ethnically ambiguous slut of a roommate (who accentlessly claims to hail from Alabama) draws on her family portrait. In the words of Vanessa Kerry: “There are pictures of my breasts all over the internet...
Auction record for a painting (Van Gogh’s “Portrait of Dr Gachet”): $82.5 million...
...street during the Vietnam War; in New York City. As a teenager in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, he charged $20 to shoot weddings and went on to cover 13 wars for such news outlets as the Associated Press, Life magazine and Parade. He also took moving, often black-and-white portraits of world leaders, activists and entertainers, but he was forever haunted by his iconic Vietnam photo, which he said he couldn't lay eyes on for two years. He also faced occasional scoldings from people who wondered why he didn't try to stop the killing. DIED. SKEETER DAVIS...
...much Sen. Zell Miller’s angry proclamation that to dissent from President Bush in this time of war is tantamount to treason that bothered me. It wasn’t even the smilingly dishonest way Bush rewrote his past three years to relate a satisfying portrait of resolute strength and triumph that was upsetting. It was that the Republicans were so damn good at it. The 500,000 of us who had taken to the streets that week could never and would never match the power of the Bush administration’s public relations staff...