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The Huffington Post | By Sara Gates In a move criticized by many, Facebook removed a photo of a breast cancer survivor’s large chest tattoo, citing a violation of its strict nudity policy, UPI reports. However, the social networking site has since backtracked on its decision, allowing the photo to stay on the Custom Tattoo …
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We Come Undone February 20, 2013 – March 30, 2013 Reception: February 19, 2013, 6 to 8 pm. TILTON GALLERY 8 East 76th Street New York, NY Tilton Gallery is pleased to present We Come Undone, a solo exhibition of wall collages and drawings by Yashua Klos. This is Klos’ first one person show at Tilton. A reception for …
Portraits of Perfection Text | Vincent Graff for the MailOnline.com Published | January 30, 2013 Stare closely at the pictures on this page. What do you think it took to create these beautiful images? An expensive camera, a precision lens, hours of trial and error from a skilled photographer? Well, the answer is none of …
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For many years, artist Lady Bird Strickland painted the people that she met in her life – and it was no ordinary life Text | Kathy Boccella for Philly.com Published | February 17, 2013 Subjects such as Dizzy Gillespie, Josephine Baker, Charlie Parker, Marian Anderson, Miles Davis, and Duke Ellington were all part of the …
The vision and purpose of Black Geek Week is to: Highlight the achievements of Africans Americans in academia, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and the Arts who have pushed the boundaries of thought and technology Expose the University of Illinois community to a demographic of “nerds” and “geeks” who are rarely highlighted in pop-culture …
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A sale of “exceptional” surrealist art including a Joan Miro painting that has not been seen for more than half a century is set to raise millions of pounds next month. The Barcelona-born painter’s 1939 work The Ladder of Escape is alone estimated to sell for around £8 million at the sale at Christie’s …
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AP/The Huffington Post | Posted: 01/28/2013 6:08 pm EST | Updated: 01/28/2013 8:41 pm EST Tiger Woods opened his 2013 PGA season with a victory in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. Back on the course where he won the 2008 U.S. Open, Woods delivered a vintage 14-under performance amidst the fog that plagued the event, …
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art presents the third offering of its Director’s Discussion Series. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, director of the museum, will have a lively, engaging and thought-provoking discussion with Maya Angelou, world-renowned poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright and civil-rights activist. The discussion will be introduced by on-air personality Cortney Hicks …
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Curator William Pretzer takes a photograph of Larry Holmes, 56, of Washington with his Obama inauguration flag Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, at the inauguration in Washington. Pretzer, a curator from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, was asking for objects to be donated for future exhibitions. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of …
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January 23, 2013 | Posted by Kevin Webb Rosa Parks will be honored with a commemorative stamp on what would have been her 100th birthday, Feb. 4. The U.S. Postal Service will host a pair of unveiling ceremonies for the stamp at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, and the Henry …
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With President Barack Obama sworn in, it’s time to return to a more pressing matter: The bitter in-house dispute between Tavis Smiley, Cornel West and half of black America. One would think those long-simmering tensions would begin subsiding now that the first black president’s final term is freshly secured. Yet the very public debate over …
Tuesday’s late night talk shows saw a lot of chatter about Beyonce’s alleged lip-syncing of the National Anthem during President Obama’s second inauguration. Both Jennifer Lopez and LeAnn Rimes weighed in on the discussion, and both of them sided with Beyonce, citing various reasons why lip-syncing is sometimes the right thing to do. “There …
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got testy on Capitol Hill Wednesday in response to a query from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who called into question her department’s accounting of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya. Facing expected scrutiny from Republicans during her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Clinton …
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The interconnections between Quentin Tarantino’s screenplays go further than Red Apple cigarettes. For instance, Alabama (Patricia Arquette) in the Tarantino-scripted “True Romance” gets referenced in “Reservoir Dogs,” which also happens to feature Vic Vega (Michael Madsen), brother of Vincent Vega from “Pulp Fiction” (John Travolta). Then there’s Donny Donowitz (Eli Roth) in “Inglourious Basterds,” the …
Former President Bill Clinton found a way to become the center of attention during Monday’s inauguration when he inadvertently photo-bombed Kelly Clarkson as she took the stage to sing “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee.” As the former “American Idol” singer came to the stage, Clinton stuck his head into the aisle to catch a glimpse …
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