Evan Hopkins Turner, former director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, dies at 93 Valerie Russ, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Evan Hopkins Turner, 93, an art historian who was director of both the Philadelphia Museum of Art and, later, the Cleveland Museum of Art, died Thursday, Dec. 17, from congestive heart failure at his home in Philadelphia.
Dr. Turner came to Philadelphia after a directorship at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1964. He succeeded Henri Marceau as director of Philadelphia’s museum and remained director until 1978.
His dedication to art came from both from his academic studies, which included three degrees including a doctorate in art history from Harvard, and also through his family legacy.
The bird vote, Mr. Peanut’s shock sacrifice, Spike Lee’s Viagra: 10 of the strangest stories of 2020
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But it’s also been a deeply weird year, and weirdness sometimes can be wonderful.
To be clear, this particular roundup of the Year That Was will offer nothing about politics. We all know our politics has become very weird and very divisive. We’re going to concentrate instead on the kind of weird that unites us, the quirky and goofy kind that elicits a collective,
Say
what now?
Below is our Top 10 list of strange news. The list, like 2020, could have gone on and on and on …
Yo, South Florida! Sylvester Stallone s a property owner again. So who are his neighbors? Howard Cohen, The Miami Herald
Dec. 24 Will Florida welcome Sylvester Stallone back as a resident after a 22-year absence?
Stallone, 74, is about to find out as reports have him a new property owner of a $35.4 million mansion in Palm Beach County.
According to WPTV-Channel 5 in West Palm Beach, the star of the Rocky and Rambo film franchises bought a lakefront mansion just before Christmas, along with surrounding property in a community known as the Manana Estates in county real estate records.
The Bermuda-styled property on the northern end of Palm Beach County at 1480 N. Lake Way would be a seven-bedroom home for Sly and his wife Jennifer Flavin. The gated property was built in 2014 and stands on 1 1/2 acres. There is 13,241 square feet of living space, with 253 feet of lakefront upon which there s a dock and a sandy beach just off the seawall, The Palm Beach Daily Ne