Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be increasingly sunny with a high of 35. Sunrise is 7:22 AM and sunset 4:45 PM for 9h 22m 59s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 55.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1952, NBC‘s long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave…
Art
Art, Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 1.3.23: The Medium is Snow
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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with scattered showers and a high of 40. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:33 PM for 9h 08m 25s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 89.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1957, the Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.…
Art, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Cathenge
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Art, Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 11.23.22: Immersive Van Gogh
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Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 52. Sunrise is 6:57 AM and sunset 4:25 PM for 9h 27m 37s of daytime. The moon is new with 0.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1644, John Milton publishes Areopagitica (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/608/pg608-images.html), a pamphlet decrying censorship. An exhibit taking place…
Art, Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 10.1.22: Artists in India Keep a 4,500-Year-Old Craft Alive
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Art, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Galina Bugaevskaya’s Cats as Royalty
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by ??? ???????? ? (@koty_vezde) Via Artist Reimagines Cats as Royalty in Traditional Portraits of People: When looking at old works of art, it’s not uncommon to find a feline companion somewhere in the composition. Artist Galina Bugaevskaya (aka Cat Universe on Instagram), however, reimagines…
Art, Cartoons & Comics, Education, Science/Nature, Technology
From Comic-Con@Home 2021: The Science of Art
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How is STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) used to inspire and create our most beloved popular arts? What do portrayals of science and scientists in popular media get right and wrong? From world-building to special effects and cosplay, IF/THEN ambassadors (www.ifthenshecan.org) Sydney Hamilton (aerospace engineer), Myria Perez (paleontologist), Dr. Samantha Thi Porter (archaeologist), and Dr.…
Art, Confidence Schemes
Film: Made You Look: A True Story of Fake Art
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Filmmaker Barry Avrich (David Foster: Off the Record, Prosecuting Evil) explores how one of the most respected art galleries in New York City became the center of the largest art fraud in American history and was ultimately forced to close after 165 years. Knoedler & Company, under its president, Ann Freedman, made millions selling previously…
Art, Film
The Making of “Hero”
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Art, Cats
Art in Quarantine
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Art
Art: The Origin of Stripes
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Art, City, Culture, Local Government
Newnan, Georgia & Whitewater, Wisconsin
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One reads, in the New York Times, about How 17 outsize portraits rattled a small southern town (‘Not everyone was ready for what they saw’). After a white-nationalist rally in Newnan, Georgia, that town put up 17 large-scale banner portraits, images of the ordinary people who make up the town. They hang from the perches of…