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Tora! Tora! Tora! Robert McCall

20th Century Fox commissioned Robert McCall to create a series of 26 concept paintings for the 1970 blockbuster film, Tora! Tora! Tora! These illustrations were used in the film’s poster campaigns as well as for lobby cards. A number of the original paintings now hang in the World War II Aviation gallery entrance of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. x

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11/3/1823 Birthday: Alfred Stevens

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6/7/1887 Birthday Marc Chagall

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April 26th 1937: Bombing of Guernica

On this day in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the Basque town of Guernica was bombed by the German Luftwaffe. The attack was planned to fall on a market day, when they knew there would be a lot of people on the streets of Guernica. Guernica had little strategic value, but was a cultural centre of the Basque people who had been resisting Franco’s Nationalist forces. Over the course of three hours, over twenty five planes dropped one hundred thousand pounds of bombs, reducing the beautiful town to rubble. Those who tried to escape were shot down by the guns on the fighter planes. Final death tolls are unclear - most sources suggest around 1,500 were killed, however recent calculations have put the figure as under 400. The incident has become immortalised in the famous anti-war painting by Spaniard Pablo Picasso, which helped bring the atrocities of the civil war to international attention. The bombing served as a testing ground for Hitler’s military and the concept of ‘total war’, in which civilians are considered combatants and thus attacks on them are justified. The Guernica attack was indeed one of the first air raids and inaugurated the widespread use of aerial attacks in warfare. Just two years after the devastation of Guernica, World War Two broke out and the world experienced its first truly 'total’ war.

“We were still a good ten miles away when I saw the reflection of Guernica’s flames in the sky. As we drew nearer, on both sides of the road, men, women and children were sitting, dazed. I saw a priest in one group. I stopped the car and went up to him. 'What happened, Father?’ I asked. His face was blackened, his clothes in tatters. He couldn’t talk. He just pointed to the flames, still about four miles away, then whispered: Aviones…bombas’…mucho, mucho.’” - recollections of Noel Monks, the first journalist on the scene

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Ai Weiwei has withdrawn his art from two museums in Denmark to protest a law passed yesterday by the Danish parliament viewed by many as an anti-immigration measure. As he shared on his Instagram, the Chinese dissident artist has closed his solo exhibition Ruptures at Copenhagen’s Faurschou Foundation and retracted an installation from A New Dynasty — Created in China, a group show of Chinese artists at the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Aarhus. The withdrawals respond directly to the approval of a proposed law stipulating that asylum seekers must now surrender their valuables as recompense for refuge in Denmark. The regulation also delays any family reunions for refugees, stating that they must wait three years before they may even begin the application process of bringing their families over to the Scandinavian country.

Ai Weiwei Withdraws Art from Two Danish Museums in Protest of Controversial Immigration Law

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by Jo In Hyuk

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Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1885) by John Singer Sargent

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Lorenzo Ghiberti, Gates of Paradise (East Doors) for the Baptistery of San Giovanni (Florence, Italy), 1425-52

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Illustrations from a picture-book Otto Dix made for his friend’s kid, Muggeli.

Easter, 1922.

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Joseph Kosuth’s “An Elementary Parallelism” (2013) is an homage to Marcel Duchamp that combines preparatory drawings and texts from Duchamp’s “Green Box” (1934) and “White Box” (1966). The work also finds parallels in Duchamp’s nearby work “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)” (1915–23), referencing imagery such as the spiraling form of the Handler of Gravity, the collapsing funnels of the Sieves, and even Duchamp’s signature. On view now as part of the installation “‘Plays of / for a Respirateur’ An Installation by Joseph Kosuth.”

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Theme: Women Reading Part 2/ 1

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Theme: Women Reading Part 1/ 2

The popular fear of what a reader might do among the pages of a book is like the ageless fear men have of what women might do in the secret places of their body, and of what witches and alchemists might do in the dark behind locked doors.-Alberto Manguel x

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I don’t believe in art for art’s sake. I think that very often a literary motive may inspire the finest art, in fact almost always.

John French Sloan

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Mark Twain's Adorable Advice Book For Little Girls Is Super Empowering

In 1865, Mark Twain wrote a picture book entitled “Advice To Little Girls.” The book is delightfully illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky, who whimsically juxtaposes doodles that you might expect in a child’s diary with rich watercolor-esque renderings of the human form. Infused with this sketchbook-inspired world, are powerful and progressive life lessons for girls.

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