"During these periods [between the full and new moon] the flood tides rise...
“During these periods [between the full and new moon] the flood tides rise higher and the ebb tides fall lower than at any other time. These are called “spring tides” from the Saxon “sprungen.” The...
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Paul Caponigro“Egyptian Figure, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,”...
Paul Caponigro“Egyptian Figure, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,” 1962Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Dante Gabriel RossettiMay 12, 1828 – April 9, 1882
Dante Gabriel RossettiMay 12, 1828 – April 9, 1882
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May 12, 1940: Norman Whitfield is born.Norman Whitfield was an...
May 12, 1940: Norman Whitfield is born.Norman Whitfield was an unlikely star. By his own account he got into music because he “saw Smokey Robinson driving in a Cadillac.” A Harlem native, he would not...
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May 16, 1920: Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.At dawn on...
May 16, 1920: Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.At dawn on May 16, 1920, St. Peter’s Basilica was aglow with the slow, soft light of wax candles. Already a massive pilgrimage had gathered in...
View Article"Dicki Leitsch, an early gay-rights activist, who is now in his eighties,...
“Dicki Leitsch, an early gay-rights activist, who is now in his eighties, arranged to donate his old working files to the archives of the New York Public Library… Jason Baumann, an assistant director...
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May 17, 1954: In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court...
Linda and Terry Lynn Brown; Carl Iwasaki/The LIFE Images Collection On the steps of the Supreme Court, Nettie Hunt explains to her daughter, Nikie, the meaning of Brown v. Board; LOC Plaintiffs in...
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Ixmiquilpan [in Mexico] … didn’t always ingratiate itself with...
yadir_copca/Flickr ismael villafranco/Flickr yadir_copca/Flickr Wikimedia Commons yadir_copca/FlickrIxmiquilpan [in Mexico] … didn’t always ingratiate itself with outsiders. Its name means “place...
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Fifty years ago this spring, Stanley Kubrick’s confounding...
Fifty years ago this spring, Stanley Kubrick’s confounding sci-fi masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, had its premieres across the country.. Onscreen it was 2001, but in the theatres it was still 1968,...
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Julius KlingerMay 22, 1876 – ?1942**Klinger, who was Jewish, was...
Julius KlingerMay 22, 1876 – ?1942**Klinger, who was Jewish, was deported to Minsk in 1942, and died sometime that year.
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May 24, 1844: Samuel Morse telegraphs “WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT?”...
May 24, 1844: Samuel Morse telegraphs “WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT?” from the U.S. Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore.Morse’s message inaugurated the world’s first commercial telegraph line,...
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To return to Mr. de Mille’s analogy, lighting is like music: for...
To return to Mr. de Mille’s analogy, lighting is like music: for with identically the same resources at hand, no two artists work the same way, even though their results may in the end prove all but...
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unhistorical: To return to Mr. de Mille’s analogy, lighting is...
unhistorical:To return to Mr. de Mille’s analogy, lighting is like music: for with identically the same resources at hand, no two artists work the same way, even though their results may in the end...
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Rachel CarsonMay 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964The spiral shells of...
Erich Hartmann/Magnum PhotosRachel CarsonMay 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964The spiral shells of other snails—these quite minute—left winding tracks on the mud as they moved about in search of food. They...
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“Vital forms” are shapes inspired by nature; innovative artists...
“Vital forms” are shapes inspired by nature; innovative artists and designers used them in the 1940s and 1950s to evoke living entities, ranging from amoebas and plant life to the human figure… Every...
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May 30, 1941: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas, members of...
May 30, 1941: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas, members of the Greek Resistance, climb the Acropolis of Athens and tear down the swastika.Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas were both nineteen years...
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Ellsworth Kelly May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015The process by...
Ellsworth Kelly May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015The process by which the “already-made” shape is suddenly available to Kelly—while it escapes most of us—is one of defamiliarization, of what the Russian...
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Man Ray“Laboratory of the Future,” 1935Museum of Modern Art
Man Ray“Laboratory of the Future,” 1935Museum of Modern Art
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Lizzie Douglas AKA Memphis MinnieJune 3, 1897 – August 6,...
Lizzie Douglas AKA Memphis MinnieJune 3, 1897 – August 6, 1973She was coal black beautiful, they say, with soft black hair she could fix any way she wanted to, and all gold teeth across the front. In...
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Views at Abu Simbel, Nubia, Southern EgyptBrooklyn Museum
Views at Abu Simbel, Nubia, Southern EgyptBrooklyn Museum
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