MLBBaseball’s great psychedelic myth took place five decades ago, but the man behind it was far more than an amusing sidenote in the sport’s history
The century-spanning annals of baseball are filled with accomplishments that strain credulity and force us to rethink the outer limits of human potential, like Babe Ruth’s called shot at Wrigley Field or Reggie Jackson’s three home runs on three pitches in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series. Read More...
Olivia Newton-John This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldImages of Sandy Olsson’s infamous makeover accompanied many tributes to the actor who died this week
The death of Olivia Newton-John this week was followed by an avalanche of tributes from celebrities and fans on social media. And the image accompanying most of the posts of was Newton-John as Sandy Olsson in the last scene of her signature 1978 film, Grease. Read More...
PaintingObituaryAtta Kwami obituaryPainter, printmaker and sculptor whose colourful work drew on the vernacular art of his native GhanaSince July, visitors to Folkestone harbour have encountered a double archway brightly painted with a geometric pattern in an array of colours. A part of the Kent town’s triennial art festival, it is the work of the Ghanaian-born artist Atta Kwami, who has died aged 65.
Kwami, who lived in both Kumasi, Ghana’s second city, and, from 2009, Loughborough, in Leicestershire, said the sculpture, titled Atsiaƒu ƒe agbo nu (Gateways of the Sea in the Ewe language), represented “movement … people leaving because of Brexit, immigrants arriving from other places”. Read More...