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Famous Mural Demolished

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  Mural by Salvador Roberto Torres Demolition of Torres mural     A famous mural in San Diego by artist Salvador Roberto Torres has been demolished and will be repainted at a local middle school.     Kristen Taketa  is the K-12 education reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the U-T in 2018 after covering education for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.     Taketa's writing style is analytical and can be seen in quotes such as:  " The mural was painted by influential artist Salvador Roberto Torres, who helped create Chicano Park and Centro Cultural de la Raza. Community members tried unsuccessfully to stop the demolition of a 32-year-old mural painted by a renowned San Diego Chicano artist at Memorial Prep Middle School in the Logan Heights neighborhood." " The muralist, Salvador Roberto Torres, an influential artist who helped create Chicano Park in 1970, wrote to school district officials this week trying to enforce what he sa...

Stolen Art at Denver Art Museum?

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  The limestone deity at the Denver Art Museum.  Figure (Uma-Maheshvara) . 10th Century, stone. Nepal. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Ullman from the collection of Jane F. and Harold P. Ullman. Photo courtesy of the Denver Art Museum     This article is about the piece above, a piece located in the Denver Art Museum. This piece has been in the museum's possession for quite some time; however, the piece appears in a book about stolen art from Nepal.     The author Angela Ufheil, is an assistant editor at Denver's city magazine, 5280 . Ufheil has also been working in news her whole career.     Angela Ufheil's writing in this piece is very analytical and can be seen in quotes such as:  "A piece in the Denver Art Museum’s (DAM) Asian collection is causing controversy amongst art historians and concerned citizens of Nepal.  The object in question  is a 30-and-three-quarter-inch-tall tablet depicting Shiva, a revered Hindu deity, and ...

Biddy Mason Mural

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  A panel of Bernard Zakheim’s “History of Medicine in California” features Biddy Mason, center, an enslaved woman born in 1818 who became a nurse. Credit... Chris Carlsson      Carol Pogash is a writer for the New York Times and Huffington Post among several others publications. Pogash is a published author of three books that dive into the AIDS epidemic, murders, and even former President, Donald Trump.      Pogash has a writing style that is very analytical, which really helps get across who Biddy Mason was and the importance of the mural, and why it should't be torn down. The analytical style can be seen with quotes such as : "Ms. Voisin George recognized a central figure in one of the vivid social realist tableaus:  Biddy Mason , a Black nurse, is depicted alongside a white doctor, as they treat a malaria patient. Mason, an enslaved woman born in 1818, went on to become a midwife, a nurse, a philanthropist and a founder of the First African M...

Banana Art

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“Comedian” by Maurizio Cattelan, on display in Miami in 2019     Graham Bowley is an investigative reporter for the Culture Desk for The New York Times. He has covered the darkest of darks, and the lightest of lights in arts and culture, from the allegations against Bill Cosby to the opening of National Museum of African American History and Culture.      Bowley's writing style is somewhat analytical. This can be seen from quotes such as:     "I n the case of “Comedian,” the subject is also the art world itself — and questions about who decides what constitutes art, and the huge amounts of money that is spent on it."     " The sly work’s simplicity enticed collectors t o pay as much as $150,000 for it at a Miami art fair last fall, an act of connoisseurship that delighted them but astonished the many people who had not imagined that a, um, “sculpture” of fruit on a wall could command such a price."     Bowley cites hi...

Horned Rioter

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  A piece of graffiti art depicting the US Capitol riots appears in Kent on January 11, 2021. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage)     The author of the article  " The Capitol Rioter Dressed Up as a Native American Is Part of a Long Cultural History of ‘Playing Indian.’ We Ignore It at Our Peril" Joseph Pierce is a writer that has worked on several political pieces, mostly revolving around Native Americans and their culture. Pierce himself is of the Cherokee Nation  and associate professor in the department of Hispanic languages and literature at Stony Brook University.       Pierce's writing style is mainly analytical. Pierce's writing is analytical when explaining how most imagery linked to Vikings actually comes from Native Americans such as " Viking imagery has been  harnessed  by white supremacists to  reimagine  the past" and " But don’t take my word for it. Ironically, Richard Wagner’s wife, Cosima,  described ...