The Gestapo Points to Guernica and Asks Picasso, “Did You Do This?;” Picasso Replies “No, You Did!”
History remembers Pablo Picasso first as an innovative painter, and second as an uninhibited personality. The latter...
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The Civil rights activist and Klan leader that attacked the same problem from opposite sides.
From 1971, the New York Times News Service. C. P. Ellis didn’t really want to go back to work last Thursday. The president of the Durham...
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Debbie Harry Painted by H.R. Giger
In the spring of 1980, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie met H.R. Giger at a party at the Hansen Gallery in New York City, which...
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The Chromatic Typewriter That Types in Colour
Washington-based painter Tyree Callahan modified a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter, replacing the letters and keys with colour pads...
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“Thou Shalt Not”: A 1940 Photo Satirically Mocks Every Vice & Sin Censored by the Hays Film Censors
The history of Hollywood film before 1968 breaks down into two eras: "pre-Code" and "post-Code." The "Code" in question is the Motion...
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The Macabre Art of Baking ‘People Pies’
Spectators have long had a grotesque affinity for the fictional villain, Sweeney Todd, whose victims are ingeniously baked into human...
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Betty Robinson: the fastest woman in the world who came back from the dead
As hard as 16-year-old Betty Robinson was running, there was no way she was going to get to the train before it pulled out of the...
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