PHILADELPHIA When Denyce Graves visited Marian Anderson in the Connecticut home where the famed singer lived later in life, the two vocalists talked about how Anderson had never sought to “become the face of the civil rights movement.” But Anderson was called to that moment in Washington, Graves said, referring […]
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See the new art sculpture at Sacramento CA convention center
The Sacramento Convention Center is under construction on Monday, March 8, 2021 in Sacramento. Paul Kitagaki Jr. [email protected] The Sacramento airport has its leaping red rabbit. The plaza at Golden One Center has its colorful Piglet. Now, the convention center downtown is about to get its own out-sized public art […]
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Creepy sculpture with human faces is even older than experts thought
A human-shaped wooden idol decorated with an eerie human face and considered the oldest of its kind ever discovered may date back even further in time, researchers now say. Often called the Shigir Idol after the Shigir peat bog, where it was found in the Ural Mountains in Russia in […]
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Artist Takes Giant Anti-Trump Sculpture On Dumpster, Junkyard ‘Tour Of Shame’
Dutch artist Arjen van Lith protested against President Donald Trump in the final days of the 2020 election by taking a giant golden sculpture of Trump’s head on a “tour of shame” around the junkyards, dumpsters and car cemeteries in his current home city of Pittsburgh. “As a (legal) immigrant, I […]