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Artists and galleries in the region are finding ways to take part in the rise of crypto art

Contextualizing Emma Amoss Creative Freedom At the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, a retrospective of the artist’s prominent career highlights her ingenuity across various mediums ‘I want to invent the human figure,’ the late artist Emma Amos boldly claimed in a 2011 oral-history interview for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Amos, who died in May 2020 at the age of 83, pursued a wide range of technical and material approaches over the course of her seven-decade...

NASA, Perseverance in epicly successful entry, descent, and landing at Jezero Crater, Mars February 18, 2021 After years of hard work and labor, NASA succeeded in the most complex landing ever attempted on another planet. Perseverance safely touchdown at Jezero Crater at an actual time on Earth of 15:43 EST (20:43 UTC) — with confirmation of landing received 11 minutes 22 seconds later through the Madrid, Spain facility of the Deep Space Network at 15:55 EST (20:55 UTC). Arriving at Mars, and...

Reginald Wilson: A Black American Socialist (1927-2020) Reginald Wilson, the prominent African American psychologist and educator, civil rights activist and socialist, and a member of the New Politics board, died on December 13, 2020 at the age of 93. His was a quintessentially Black American story of the twentieth century, if a particularly illustrious one. From his role as a Tuskegee Airman to his activism with C.L.R. James’ Correspondence group, to his founding of the first Black ski clu...

But legendary singer Nat King Cole was a braver man than most. During his run at the Glasgow venue in 1954, he was heckled relentlessly by fans badgering him to sing When I Fall in Love. Exasperated, the star finally snapped: “Perhaps you would like to come up and sing it yourself?” This was a mistake. The delighted fan wasted no time in hopping up on to the stage and starting belting out the classic. With his arm around a thoroughly taken aback Cole, he yelled: “Come on Nat, ...

Top 20 Jazz Reissues and Archive Albums of 2020 Monday, December 21, 2020 Some real finds and compelling rediscoveries from Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Charles Mingus, Shirley Scott, and more Thank you for visiting Jazzwise.co.uk To get full, unrestricted access to all our news, features, artist profiles and much more besides simply click the button below and register for free to the website. By signing up you...

For conservatives. >> thats exact ly right. andrew wheeler is scott pruitt who knows how to behave in public to get away with what he gets away with. his policy perspective is pretty much the same but he just seems to be a lot smoother about not a advertising it in public. he went before confirmation and basically said climate change israel and he has a certainly of eight or nine or ten that it is real. he immediately appoints john christie. hes a guy thats going to say one thing but do another ...

And women and not allow them to build churches. theyre not going to make it to western values. no, treat us with respect, demand equality and let us start to reform. thats the way to treat us with equality rather than this bigotry of low expectations. >> you continue pushing that. its an important message for people to hear. thank you. >> thank you. >> dr. jasser. all right. from taking on terror to taking on china. china has been flexing their muscle. is it time for us to get tough like donald ...

Were telling you straighten up, fly right, dont lecture us about our currency, on and on and on, what would a secretary or a president donald trump say or do? >> id tax the hell out of them. i would tax them back to china. >> all right. thank god for videotape and he was talking to me. that was donald trump more than six years ago. and its been a consistent theme of his, as a businessman, as a politician and now as president-elect of the united states. this week china seems to be sending him a m...