Chicago kicks off LIFE magazine’s “LIFE in a Great City.”
The campaign, which includes “extraordinary pictures” by LIFE photographers from the 1930s to the 1970s, spotlights Chicago, the “Great American City.”
Can I still call myself a Chicagoan if I use ketchup on hot dogs and grew up in the suburbs? I’m going to go ahead and say, “Absolutely!”
Well, congratulations Tuesday readers — more Lincoln trivia!
Bona fide hottie Victor David Brenner used this photograph of Lincoln, taken by Anthony Berger to create the penny in 1909. Teddy Roosevelt had selected the design for Lincoln’s 100th birthday anniversary.
I was interviewed for a radio show on Lincoln’s 200th birthday, so I think we know who the real winner is (though Brenner’s still a babe).
The photograph above is the first portrait Mathew Brady took of Lincoln in 1860, the day of the Cooper Union speech. When Lincoln won the Republican nomination, he said, “Brady and the Cooper Institute made me President.”
This is one of five portraits Brady captured of Lincoln.
Rene Magritte’s “The Treachery of Images” was painted in 1928.
Magritte: “The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it’s just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I’d have been lying!”
Ah, the insight of physical versus imagined.
Turns out Hazel Grace wears a Magritte shirt in the book The Fault in our Stars. As if that relationship with Augustus Waters couldn’t get hotter, we bring in surrealism and BOOM.
An article in February (I know, so backlogged!) said Obama promised “folks can make a lot more [money] with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree.”
Backpedaling almost immediately, he said, “Now, nothing wrong with an art history degree — I love art history. So I don’t want to get a bunch of e-mails from everybody.”
As an offended art history major, and still licking the wounds from this missing invitation, here’s how you can make it up to me, Mr. President: A featured blog spot on that Arts and Humanities Committee.
Or I can take those Hoppers from the Oval Office off your hands…your call.
Girl, thanks for making the smirk still one of the hottest accessories. 535 looks good on you!
The Dancer was one of 7 works Renoir exhibited at the first Impressionist show in 1874.
One critic wrote, “What a pity…that the painter, who has a certain understanding of color, doesn’t draw better; his dancer’s legs are as cottony as the gauze of her skirts.”
The painting was a part of the Widener Collection. Joseph Widener was a founding benefactor of the NGA. He donated more than 2,000 works to the museum in 1939.
Two cats, Fiona and Bazooka, used to live at the Phillips Collection.
Pierre Bonnard helped established the post-Impressionist group “Les Nabis,” meaning prophet. Their mission? Spreading the word of Paul Gauguin.
Sorry world.
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