Grasping a new reality
WASHINGTON — First, they had to get the handshake right. Two decades earlier in Geneva, Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai had been mortally offended when U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spurned his offered hand. As TV cameras flashed the scene worldwide, President Richard Nixon and first lady Pat Nixon descended the steps of Air Force One to a waiting Zhou on a Beijing runway.
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Beautiful, Aesthetic, Erotic
Richard Dorment The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy The New Painting of the 1860s: Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement by Allen Staley Edward Burne-Jones: The Hidden Humorist by John Christian The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement in Britain, 1860–1900 an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, April 2 ...
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Are you an entrepreneur or a leader?
Entrepreneurs are inspired, leaders inspire
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Jericho's village eccentric Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley was a man driven by obsessions
A Vermont dairy farmer with an inquisitive mind and poetic soul, he was known as The Snowflake Man. One of the most famous Hollywood movie stars, she was known as America’s Sweetheart.
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High Museum bringing Kahlo and Rivera exhibit in ‘13
In the decade since the hit film biography " Frida " was released, the High Museum of Art has received many requests for an exhibit of Frida Kahlo and her partner in brilliance and tumult, Diego Rivera.
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