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[TRENDING NEWS] Patricia Highsmith Lived Extravagantly, and Took Copious Notes

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Author: BY DWIGHT GARNER - Publish Date: November 9, 2021 at 01:48AM The writer’s newly released diaries and notebooks, spanning five decades from 1941 to 1995, are a record of hard work, wild nightlife and passionate love affairs.

[TRENDING NEWS] Overlooked No More: Kim Hak-soon, Who Broke the Silence for ‘Comfort Women’

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Author: BY CHOE SANG-HUN - Publish Date: October 22, 2021 at 12:07AM Her public testimony about the horrors of sexual slavery that Japan had engineered for its World War II military encouraged other survivors to step forward.

[TRENDING NEWS] Overlooked No More: Remedios Varo, Spanish Painter of Magic, Mysticism and Science

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Author: BY JULIA BOZZONE - Publish Date: September 25, 2021 at 01:18AM In the 1950s, and ’60s, she depicted women, artists and thinkers in intricate dreamlike canvases that now fetch high prices.

[TRENDING NEWS] Overlooked No More: Sinn Sisamouth, ‘King’ of Cambodian Pop Music

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Author: BY MIKE IVES - Publish Date: September 10, 2021 at 01:47AM He and his singing partner, Ros Serey Sothea, drew from a wide range of Western and local influences. They disappeared after the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975.

[TRENDING NEWS] Overlooked No More: Janet Sobel, Whose Art Influenced Jackson Pollock

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Author: BY MAYA BLACKSTONE - Publish Date: July 31, 2021 at 12:06AM With no formal art training, working in her Brooklyn apartment, she took up the drip style of painting that Pollock later made famous.

[TRENDING NEWS] Overlooked No More: F.N. Souza, India’s Anti-Establishment Artist

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Author: BY WILLIAM GRIMES - Publish Date: April 10, 2020 at 07:49AM Souza, who started a collective of renegade artists in 1947, embraced the sacred and profane in erotically charged images. Several of his paintings fetched record auction prices for Indian art.

[TRENDING NEWS] The Woman Who Sneaked Into George Washington’s Army

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Author: ALISON LEIGH COWAN - Publish Date: July 2, 2019 at 07:00AM A rediscovered diary, now at the Museum of the American Revolution, sheds light on the life of Deborah Sampson, who fought in the Continental Army.

[TRENDING NEWS] Overlooked No More: Bessie Blount, Nurse, Wartime Inventor and Handwriting Expert

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Author: Unknown Author - Publish Date: March 27, 2019 at 07:00AM Blount invented a feeding device and taught amputee veterans to write with their teeth and their feet. She later became a forensic handwriting analyst.