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An Invitation to The Rats Wedding And Vietnam's Ðông Hồ Folk Paintings
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (229+ words) This Way For Great Art Often used to illustrate Vietnamese New Year, "ng H" paintings are bright, witty riffs on society and human desire. Often used to illustrate Vietnamese New Year, "ng H" paintings are bright, witty riffs on society…...
Wall Street Bankers In The Office With Their Cars - 1980s
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (269+ words) This Way For Great Art In the 1980s, showing your success was good. And for these bankers on Wall Street, New York," that meant taking their cars to work. "you know Marty Wyndham? He netted $650,000 out of that merger 26 years old....
George Bellows: Painting The Rough Energy of New York City's Skyscraper Age
1+ week, 3+ day ago (501+ words) This Way For Great Art Arriving in New York from his native Ohio in 1904, Bellows painted the city as a site where, as his mentor Robert Henri said, "the battle of human evolution is going on"." "I don't know anything…...
Viva Gibb's Photos of Everyday People In Suburban Melbourne, c.1975-1990
2+ week, 1+ day ago (271+ words) This Way For Great Art Butcher on Errol Street, North Melbourne, 1980. From 1975 to the early 1990s, Viva Gibb (11 September 19454 December 2017) was living in the suburbs of west and north Melbourne, Australia. She took pictures of people in her area. "Lolly seller…...
Watching The Kings Road Punks in 1980s London
2+ week, 2+ day ago (145+ words) This Way For Great Art "A remarkable social and cultural inversion has occurred in the last fifty years: where once culture was the monopoly of the upper classes, it now, more often than not, bubbles up from those on the…...
Photos from the Heart of New York City's Punk Scene in the 1970s
3+ week, 2+ day ago (160+ words) This Way For Great Art Gary Green was in Manhattan in 1976 taking picture at CBGB of the music and fashion was making the city rock " Gary Green, NYC punks in the 1970s In 1976, Gordon (March 29, 1947 " October 18, 2022) had played CBGB with the…...
National Screw Magazine Asks 70s Pop Stars, Porn Stars and Movie Stars: 'What's Your Worst Nightmare?"
3+ week, 2+ day ago (913+ words) This Way For Great Art Issue 2 of National Screw magazine asked a host of famous faces and bodies: 'What's Your Worst Nightmare?' "Success may fill the days with dreamlike drama and fortune, but does it help anyone sleep better?" " National…...
Disc And Music Echo 1966 - The Kinks v The Beatles And Yellow Submarine is 'Rubbish"
3+ week, 4+ day ago (941+ words) This Way For Great Art in 1966, The Kinks frontman Ray Davies was invited to review the new Revolver album from The Beatles for Disc and Music Echo magazine " Paul McCartney on The Beatles album Revolver, 1966 Ray Davies reviews the Beatles…...
A Fair Day: Martin Parr's Photos of Rural Ireland In the Early 1980s
1+ mon, 8+ hour ago (185+ words) This Way For Great Art O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, Ireland, 1981 Mary's Holy Well, Killargue, County Leitrim, Ireland, 1981 "I like the idea of tourism, it's a huge business " the biggest business in the world " and there's this difference between the mythology of…...
The Corpse Can't Play: The Late Night Horror They Banned (1968)
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (481+ words) This Way For Great Art In 1968 the BBC ran six episodes of Late Night Horror, of which only one survives - a show deemed too scary for broadcast "Well, it's only fair, Mrs Jarman, I mean, now I'm not the only…...