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On the trail of Turner: Revisit the scenes in Kent that inspired the landscape artist
The best known story about Joseph Mallord William Turner is that he had himself lashed to a mast, brush in hand, to capture the full force of a storm at sea. Like many art anecdotes, this one probably isn't true: other, lesser painters are known to have had themselves tied to bits of shipping while they worked, and one of their stories has barnacled itself to JMW. He was, after all, Britain's ...
Kitten-Sized Controversy: Is Hello Kitty from London or Japan?
TOKYO — A controversy is brewing among Japan’s fanatical followers of Hello Kitty: Is the character who has been plastered on everything from stickers to face massagers to toasters to panties to deodorant sprays and long officially described as an English citizen actually a Japanese national? According to the official biography from Sanrio, the Japanese licensing company that controls Hello ...
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