In 2023, I emailed 215 art-related items to supporters of my Sunday Recommendations list. This week: my favorites in decorative arts, music (including opera and ballet), movies, and TV. This post is…
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In 2022, I emailed 158 art-related items to my members of my free Sunday Recommendations list. For supporters, I recommended 52 more items. This week: my favorites in the categories of…
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This post is available as a video at https://youtu.be/yIP9Nw3_5w8. NOTE: As of 5/15/24, this book (print and ebook formats) is temporarily unavailable while I prepare a second edition, with improvements…
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August 29, 2022
Avengers: Endgame. Adele, "Rolling in the Deep." Psy, "Gangnam Style." Hamilton: An American Musical. All: Wikipedia.
Twelfth of 12 posts with an illustrated decade-by-decade timeline for the years 1900 to 2021. For more on the timeline and a link to the book on Amazon, see here.…
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August 8, 2022
US soldiers in Afghanistan, 2011. Photo: Wikipedia.
Tea Party sign, 2012. Photo: Quinn Dombrowski_2 / Wikipedia.
Steve Jobs announces the release of the iPhone, 2007. Photo: Blake Patterson / Wikipedia
Eleventh of 12 posts with an illustrated decade-by-decade timeline for the years 1900 to 2021. For more on the timeline and a link to the book on Amazon, see here.…
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Tenth of 12 posts with an illustrated decade-by-decade timeline for the years 1900 to 2021. For more on the timeline and a link to the book on Amazon, see here.…
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July 26, 2022
Jackson, Thriller, 1982. Madonna, Like a Virgin, 1984. Hammer, Feel My Power, 1986. Schönberg & Boublil, Les Miserables, 1987.
Ninth of 12 posts with an illustrated decade-by-decade timeline for the years 1900 to 2021. For more on the timeline and a link to the book on Amazon, see here.…
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July 19, 2022
Newsweek’s cover for 1/26/1970, the issue devoted to “The Ravaged Environment.” Nixon just after resigning as president, 1974. Photo: Wikipedia. Sign at a gas station during the oil crisis, 1974. Photo: Wikipedia. Iranian students climb walls of US Embassy in Tehran at start of hostage crisis, 1979. Photo: TheMemoryHole.org
Eighth of 12 posts with an illustrated decade-by-decade timeline for the years 1900 to 2021. For more on the timeline and a link to the book on Amazon, see here.…
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July 12, 2022
Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961. The Graduate, 1967. Nimoy as Mr. Spock on Star Trek, ca. 1966-1969. Beatles, With the Beatles, 1963. Jackson Five, Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5, 1969.
Seventh of 12 posts with an illustrated decade-by-decade timeline for the years 1900 to 2021. For more on the timeline and a link to the book on Amazon, see here.…
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July 5, 2022
Nuclear warhead stockpiles of the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia, 1945-2014. Fastfission / Wikipedia. Integration at the Barnard School, 1955. Photo: Wikipedia. CDC's polio vaccine poster. Wikipedia
Sixth of 12 posts with an illustrated decade-by-decade timeline for the years 1900 to 2021. For more on the timeline and a link to the book on Amazon, see here.…
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