VIENNA (AP) — Two large portraits of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been spray-painted on a property owned by the family of a former Czech foreign minister behind a monument to Soviet soldiers in Vienna. The portraits were completed Wednesday on the wall behind the monument, which was already painted in Ukraine’s blue and yellow national colors …
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Poetry great Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, California, on this day in history, March 26, 1874. Frost spent the first 11 years of his life in San Francisco until his father, journalist William Prescott Frost, Jr., died of tuberculosis, according to Biography.com. After his death, Frost, his mother and his sister moved in with his grandparents in …
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Mail Pouch Tobacco barns still pitch nostalgia on country roads in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and other nearby states. They offer both beautiful American folk art and a haunting reminder of a rural United States as it was well into the 20th century. Americans were tied to the land, not addicted to their cell phones. They smoked cigarettes, not marijuana. …
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Lorrie Moore won the prize for fiction on Thursday, while Judy Blume and her longtime ally in the fight against book bans, the American Library Association, were given honorary prizes by the National Book Critics Circle. Moore, best known as a short-story writer, won the fiction prize for her novel, “I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home.” Committee …
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The governor of Tennessee has approved a law that aims to protect musical artists from exploitation or replication by artificial intelligence. Gov. Bill Lee signed into law the Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security (ELVIS) Act on Thursday at a honky-tonk bar in Nashville. “There are certainly many things that are positive about what AI does,” Lee said during the …
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Joana Vicente is stepping down as the CEO of the Sundance Institute, the nonprofit behind the annual Sundance Film Festival, after two and a half years. “She has been a true advocate for independent storytellers, and I know she will continue to positively impact this community,” said Sundance Institute Board Chair Ebs Burnough in a statement released Friday. MONTRÉAL’S ‘JUST …
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An art museum in the United Kingdom is making news for overhauling its galleries, saying idyllic paintings of the English countryside can spark “nationalist feeling” in viewers. Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum has changed its displays in a move that director Luke Syson insisted to The Telegraph was not “woke” but aimed at being more “inclusive.” “I would love to think …
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The greatest paintings usually magnify the beauty and morals of the civilizations that produced them, inspiring countless other artists, writers and satirists for centuries to come. Artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci produced work that has been replicated in modern media through parodies and historical references. In addition, the public can still view their art …
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