Author: Ms. R.

In 1977, the head of the Wicks Park asked Carol Miron, who studied at the Art Institute in Chicago, to consider producing a “Saugatuck Seurat” on the walls of the restroom in the park. Saugatuck had just gained ownership of the park two years prior and wanted something memorable and artistic to reflect the creative character of its community. Miron recreated “Sunday Afternoon on the lie de La Grande-Jatte” by Georges Seurat, accommodating the windows and doors seamlessly of the……

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In the summer of 1901, the German anthropologist Berthold Laufer departed for China, having been assigned by the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) to gather cultural items for the museum’s collections. In 1904, he returned to the United States with the kinds of items one expects museums to collect, such as shadow puppets, manuscripts, and pottery. But he also came back with what might have been a historic first, and an accidental one at that: stereo recordings, which……

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The research vessel Polarfuchs, or Polar Fox, set out in March 2015 on a 20-month race against time. Filled with nets and biologists, the vessel wasn’t low on fuel or rushing to some far-off destination. Its hurry was a result of the cargo it carried: luminous moon jellyfish, or Aurelia aurita, which would expire if they took too long. So the Polarfuchs spent more than a year and a half speeding up and down Kiel Fjord, in northern Germany,……

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In 2015, New Jersey librarian Lynne Olver passed away at the age of 57 after a months-long battle with a rare form of leukemia. She left behind a husband, two children, several cats, and the internet’s largest repository of chronologized food history. The cats are taken care of, but the Food Timeline needs a steward. What the website lacks in pomp and flash is made up for in its legendary breadth. True to its name, Olver’s Food Timeline begins……

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Gustav Wulff emigrated from Germany to Chile in 1881 and succeeded in building a fortune as a merchant. In the early 1900s, he acquired a piece of land in the growing resort community of Viña de Mar. By 1906, Wulff had constructed a home set in a dramatic location on a rocky, wave-battered promontory. Initially, the building was a somewhat ordinary home, designed with German and French influences and constructed mainly of wood. Later, Wulff began a long and……

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The legend of Ayrton Senna has gotten much larger in the years since his passing. The Formula One driver, three times World Champion, lost his life in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix of Imola. To celebrate his memory, his compatriot street artist Eduardo Kobra, crafted this huge graffiti memorial on the wall of the Checco Costa Museo Multimediale Autodromo di Imola (MAICC). The mural was completed in 2019 and depicts Senna looking at the sky. An important detail……

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