John Fetterman is the man about to succeed Pat Toomey as senator-elect of the United States from Pennsylvania. Let’s learn a thing and two about the man from Pennsylvania. John Fetterman was born on the 15th of August, 1969 in West Reading, Pennsylvania in Reading Hospital to his father, Karl Fetterman and his mother, Susan Fetterman.
His father worked at an insurance firm in New York and you can say he was born into a political family with parents who were firmly Conservative Republicans. Read More...
By Alastair SookeFeatures correspondent
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio/WikipediaCaravaggio’s revolutionary style influenced everyone from modern photographers to Scorsese – but his life was just as provocative as his paintings, writes Alastair Sooke.
Is any artist’s biography more compelling than the life of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610)? He has a reputation, of course, as the rebellious, hot-tempered punk of art history, pitching up in Rome in the final decade of the 16th Century, and electrifying the art world as much for his quarrelsome antics as his unconventional pictures. Read More...
If it were possible for a bunch of bricks and stone to be embarrassed, the National Gallery of Art's East Building should be blushing right now. After all, like a highfalutin fan dancer, it's stripping down to its nakedness in front of everyone.
But I prefer to think of what’s going on over near the Mall not as burlesque but as performance art. Call the daily show “Calloused Hands and iPads: How Do You Keep the Walls From Tumbling Down? Read More...