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Bare breasts, suicides and Flaco: NYC can’t handle public art

flashed her breasts at the Irish oglers and later announced that she “thought the people of Dublin deserved to see two New York, homegrown potatoes”? Now, that’s what I call class.Not to be outdone, another jackass on the Ireland side held up a video clip of the 9/11 attacks. Such valuable cross-cultural connections, these are!All of this bad behavior was rude, obnoxious .
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Florida museum features massive scenic backdrops from iconic films
“Art of the Hollwood Backdrop” presents 22 immense canvases from classics like “North by Northwest,” “The Sound of Music” and “Ben Hur” that were were rescued from a musty MGM Studios basement.“The exhibition celebrates Hollywood’s masters of illusion and perspective, who heretofore have received little recognition for their talent or applause for their essential role in making film magic,” the museum said on its site.The backdrops, which are on loan from the University of Texas at Austin, were used in movies from 1938 through 1968, while some have not been tied to specific films.Curators Karen Maness and Thomas Walsh also sought to find and feature the forgotten artists behind each piece. The duo spent hours combing through oral histories and other archives and were able to identify about a dozen of the canvas creators.Maness, a professor at the University of Texas, wrote a book on the history of movie backdrops in 2016 and organized a similar exhibition at the college.That exhibit sold out regularly even during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, with attendees marveling at the gigantic Mount Rushmore canvas featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic thriller.“I carry it on with both a love of painting but also as an advocate for these artists to help them be seen in history.
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