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17 hours ago · The Art of Dying. A brief history of The Met’s artist obituary scrapbooks. James Moske. October 16, 2024. In 1906, an assistant curator of paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art began collecting current newspaper obituaries of recently deceased artists. Arthur D’Hervilly, who started his Met career as a guard in 1894 and worked his way ...
2 days ago · Joel Daniel Coen (born November 29, 1954) [ 1 ] and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957), [ 2 ] together known as the Coen brothers (/ ˈkoʊən /), are an American filmmaking duo. Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. [ 3 ] Among their most acclaimed works are Blood Simple (1984), Raising ...
4 days ago · The German American artist Eva Hesse kept meticulous diaries throughout the late sixties and seventies that account for both her personal and professional anxieties, her creative process and experiments in sculpture, her failed marriage, the brief thoughts she transcribed in passing, and the social calendar she kept until a brain tumor killed her in 1970 at a mere thirty-four years old.
2 days ago · He remarks in his autobiography that the artist wasn’t very good but “…he sure was quick.” After his mother died, Bill was apprenticed to a saddlemaker and carriage upholsterer. One of Bill’s jobs was to paint the finishing touch on the carriages.
3 days ago · List of Canadian writers. This is a list of Canadian literary figures, such as poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
1 day ago · Cousteau was born on 11 June 1910, in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, France, to Daniel and Élisabeth Cousteau.He had one brother, Pierre-Antoine.Cousteau completed his preparatory studies at the Collège Stanislas in Paris.
5 days ago · Sherman Alexie (born October 7, 1966, Wellpinit, Spokane Indian Reservation, near Spokane, Washington, U.S.) is an American writer whose poetry, short stories, novels, and films about the lives of American Indians (Alexie’s preferred term) have won him an international following.
