It’s very clear. His songs are here to stay. He is one of the Country’s most beloved and prolific composers, and artist whose seemingly facile way with a tune call up images of starry Manhattan skylines, a top hat and tails, the perfect martini. Whether collaborating with brother Ira which he did much of the […] Read more

Georgia O’Keeffe revolutionized modern art, both in her time and in the present. And if we understand O’Keeffe’s emotional response to nature and her need to create an equivalent in art, we hold the key to her work. In the 1920s she explored this theme in her magnified paintings of flowers, meant to convey that […] Read more

Georgia O’Keefe’s rather ordinary childhood on a dairy farm in southern Wisconsin suggested little of the extraordinary life the future American painter would lead. Born November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin – a town of 900 near Madison — O’Keefe and her 6 siblings helped with chores on the large, prosperous farm every day […] Read more

A reassessment of diseases that might be infectious has been greatly facilitated by increasingly powerful tools of detection. Kaposi’s sarcoma, known for more than a century as a rare cancer that occurred in elderly men of Mediterranean extraction, was unmasked in the 1980s and 1990s, when a large number of KS cases arose in people […] Read more

A reassessment of diseases that might be infectious has been greatly facilitated by increasingly powerful tools of detection. Kaposi’s sarcoma, known for more than a century as a rare cancer that occurred in elderly men of Mediterranean extraction, was unmasked in the 1980s and 1990s, when a large number of KS cases arose in people […] Read more

Turning away from the privileged world of the “eminent Victorians,” Gertrude Bell explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East […] Read more

Getting Motivated and Staying Motivated I am motivated. I choose to be in motion right now. I have goals. I have dreams. I have plans. When I see a problem, I study it, I determine the solution, I see a clear picture of my goal and I put myself into action […] Read more

“We shall be a city upon a hill,” prophesied the Puritan leader John Winthrop more than 300 years ago, and ever since, those words have remained a metaphor for American idealism. Now Los Angeles can claim our country’s latest, most stupendous incarnation of that vision: the Getty Center. Set high upon the foothills of the […] Read more

In 1400, the government of Florence decided to commission a work of votive offering to give thanks to God for ending the plague. The commission was for two pairs of bronze doors, to be installed in the Baptistery in front of the cathedral. The competition for this project was intense, and the most prominent and […] Read more