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The Morris Museum of Art announces the death of artist Philip Morsberger Jerry Siegel, Philip Morsberger, Georgia, 2006, printed 2012. Digital C-print. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. Courtesy of the artist. AUGUSTA, GA .- The world lost a great artist with the death of Philip Morsberger on Sunday, January 3, 2021, of complications due to COVID-19. “Philip Morsberger was blessed with many gifts—his extraordinary curiosity and creativity, both of which sustained his skills as an artist, were only the most obvious, so, naturally, they are the immediate focus whenever his name come...

share-square-1049467 This has been a hard year for everyone. And in the world of baseball, it has hit particularly hard. Major League Baseball lost a staggering number of legends in 2020 -- those who represented the very best this sport has had to offer for decades -- and we’ll all be struggling with their absence for the rest of our baseball lives. Today, as we wind down the final days of this extremely difficult year, we take a look back at the baseball people we lost in 2020. Names are listed in alphabetical order by last name. There were seven Hall of Famers who passed away this year, a...

Sam Whiting December 21, 2020Updated: December 22, 2020, 3:05 pm Susan Landauer, the curator for the Hassel Smith memorial celebration, talks with people who attended at the San Jose Museum of Art in March, 2008. Photo: Kurt Rogers, The Chronicle Susan Landauer, an art historian and independent curator dedicated to California art and San Francisco abstract expressionism, died Saturday, Dec. 19, at her home in the Montclair district of Oakland. The cause of death was lung cancer, her husband, Carl Landauer, said. She was 62. Landauer spent 10 years as the chief curator of the San ...

The Last Laugh: The Raiders – even in failure – give me hope . . . like the Titanic Raiders fan Tony Wade. (Courtesy photo) I wrote a column for the Daily Republic called The Lighter Side of the Black Hole from 2006 to 2019 about my beloved Raiders. I wanted to write about them now as this is the season of hope and the Raiders have left their fans with plenty. Stop scratching your heads. I’ll explain all that later. First I must address this weird thing that fans of other (in other words, lesser) teams kept doing last year that was irritating because of its ridiculousness. They assumed ...

I am indeed the grim reaper when it comes to the socialist agenda that they've been coming up with over in the house. >> bill: want you to react to that and give us a suggestion as to -- if congress is in gridlock and a third of the senate is running for the presidency, what happens over the next year in washington with legislation? are you okay with the way things have become frozen in time? >> i think it's good to see mitch showing his lighter side. i get to see it every now and then. the rest of the country likes it as well. he is talking about the radical socialism that you see seeing nanc...