About 20 minutes before the start of the 100-yard backstroke A-Final at last weekend’s boys state swimming and diving meet at FMC Natatorium in Westmont, West Chicago co-op senior Brady Johnson fist.
Organisers also hinted at featuring alternative music as a way of celebrating the rich diversity of Zimbabwe’s sub cultures. There will also be poetry and other performance art.
Filmmaker Simon Backès investigates an infamous 1978 New York art exhibition called Stolen Art, where an unknown Czech artist named Pavel Novak presented a collection of amazing reproductions of master works by Rembrandt, Sérusier, Malevich, Van Gogh, and Courbet. Soon after its opening, the FBI closed down the show. A rich collector had complained that the copy of Gustave Courbet's "The Calm Sea" on display was in fact his stolen original. Who was Pavel Novak? An artist? A thief? A bit of both? Backès' curiosity is catching, as he visits the paintings listed in the Stolen Art collection's catalog, inside museums and high-security archives all over the world. He pores over these paintings, searching for the artist behind the creation. Is true art illegal? Do paintings lose their beauty once they are privately hoarded and can no longer be appreciated collectively? The questions raised are as intriguing as the answers.
The local blueberry industry is a job multiplier with enormous potential, but getting its product to market in Europe and the UK is becoming uneconomical owing to the protracted strike and other issues at South African ports.