” wanted the world to see what I had seen,” his mother told me. ”I wanted the world to see what had happened in America.
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Pride-colored signs and hats flew into the air as the crowd fled from shots they must have heard. Where were the gun sounds coming from?
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Pioneering art collector Dr. Richard Simms was on the Los Angeles County Museum board for 12 years. So, why did he give his collection to the Getty?
How did Dr. Richard Simms, an African-American dentist, become the world’s foremost collector of the art of Käthe Kollwitz?
“Bernstein was an unusually literate composer. He spent whole nights after days making music reading poetry, novels and most everything else.”