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...went out every week and visited mosques and Islamic centers and Hindu temples in the New England area and discussed our fieldwork at the seminar," she says. "As a result of that work we began to draw a portrait of the religious life in New England...
...main intellectual pursuit was the study of 20th century American culture, art and literature. Among numerous teaching positions, she was an art history professor at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and a historian at the National Portrait Gallery...
Miller also wrote volumes on the Peale family of artists. Her scholarly attention greatly augmented the reputation of the Peales, leading to the $4 million sale of a portrait painted by Rembrandt Peale in 1986. Before Miller's work, the Peales had enjoyed little artistic reknown and recognition...
China admitted that in 1994, more than 2,600 people were doing time for "counterrevolutionary crimes," according to the U.S. State Department--many for nonviolent protests. A teacher who tossed eggs at a portrait of Mao, for instance, is serving a life term. Prison conditions are abysmal: a former inmate has said that new arrivals at a facility in Hunan, in southeast China, are forced to suck feces from a straw...
...Goodmans tracked another painting, Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap, a canvas attributed to Botticelli, to New York, where it was sold by Sotheby's for $690,000 on Jan. 30, even though Kline says he had earlier informed Sotheby's, in writing, of the family's claim to the painting. Sotheby's later helped arrange a six-figure confidential settlement between the Italian seller of the work and the Goodmans, but got to keep its commission of more than $100,000 on the original sale. "We sell thousands of works of art every year and check...