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...Under Armour moves beyond cleats to sneakers with broader appeal, it is picking an ideal entry point: the training-shoe market is ripe for a revival. Nike popularized cross-trainers in the late '80s and early '90s with its famous "Bo Knows" campaign, which depicted the multisport star Bo Jackson playing hoops, football and tennis and weight-lifting in his Nikes. Since that heyday, the sporting life has become more specialized but training more diverse...
...moved to New York City in 1949, Abstract Expressionism was at the height of its art-world prestige. What that means, of course, is that it was ready for somebody to kick it in the pants. Enter Rauschenberg, with his new shoes on. It wasn't that he hated Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. To a man of his unbridled disposition, their vigor, their free gestures on the canvas were bound to appeal. But within a few years he would arrive at something in his own work that was more loose limbed and encompassing?and a lot less solemn?...
...about the life of a leaf from the beginning all the way through leaf bud, new tiny newborn leaf, then at the end of the summer they fall off and decay into the soil.” The Cornell-educated photographer said her work was influenced by artists like Jackson Pollack, and in the case of this exhibition, by one quotation from Pollack in particular: “My concern is with the rhythms of nature...I work inside out, like nature.” The exhibition will run at the Harvard Museum of Natural History through...
...Htein Lin struggled constantly and ingeniously to gather art supplies. Using a nail, he scratched poems and sketches on plastic that could only be seen when held up to sunlight. When sympathetic guards brought him house paint and syringes from the prison infirmary, he used those to create swirling, Jackson Pollock-like patterns. "If I had a lot of colors, I'd use them. If I only had black or brown, I'd use it," he says. During his seven months on death row, fellow inmates donated their sarongs - the only clothing allowed them - so that he would have something...
...singer and, occasionally, a waitress. He hardly knew his father. Kelly got noticed performing hits by Stevie Wonder and the Isley Bothers on Chicago street corners. In the early 1990s, he burst onto the national music scene as both a solo singer and the producer of hits like Michael Jackson's 1995 silky "You Are Not Alone...