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In 1900, a political writer described the “hill-billie” as someone who “talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it ...
The historian and critic Eva Díaz’s new book, ‘After Spaceship Earth’, follows R. Buckminster Fuller and how his legacy has ...
In an era where personal branding has become a widespread obsession, Gala’s life story is emblematic of the heights to which ...
Claire Hoffman's superb biography traces the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, a star preacher whose legacy lives on in L.A.
Where it all began: half-timbering is carefully painted at Bekonscot, begun by Roland Callingham in 1928.
Dorothy Levitt, the UK’s first female racer, will be the subject of a new miniseries highlighting her trailblazing life and ...
This incredible new invention can interpret human emotions with nearly 90% accuracy by analyzing facial expressions and ...
The gist of Dadaism was the "gratuitous act," and the most gratuitous Dadaist act of all was Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade ... 153 (18) Robert Rosenblum, 19th-Century Art (New York: ...
"Low culture" is defined as popular culture that is less sophisticated and more mainstream, intended to appeal to a broad ...
Dispatches on the Ultrarich National Book Award winner Osnos (Age of Ambition) provides an amusing and enraging glimpse into the lives of the überwealthy. In a series of essays originally ...