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Rara Avis (other)
Rara avis is a Latin phrase for 'rare bird'. Rara avis may refer to: * Rara Avis, Mississippi, an American ghost town *''Rara avis'', an artwork by Ralph Helmick *Rara avis, a 2005 exhibition about Iris Apfel *RARA AVIS, a musical ensemble featuring Ken Vandermark *''Rara Avis'', a 1985 documentary about Bridget Bate Tichenor See also *Black swan The black swan (''Cygnus atratus'') is a large waterbird, a species of swan which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. Within Australia, the black swan is nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent upon c ... *'' Satire VI'' by Juvenal, containing the line: ''rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno'', 'a rare bird in the lands, and very like a black swan' {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rara Avis, Mississippi
Rara Avis is a ghost town located in Itawamba County, Mississippi Itawamba County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 23,401. Its county seat is Fulton. The county is part of the Tupelo, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area. The county was ..., approximately west of the Alabama state line. Rara Avis was settled in 1850, and the town name translated to Latin means "rare bird". The population was 100 in 1900. A post office was established in 1902. Author and Baptist missionary James Garvin Chastain Sr., was born in Rara Avis in 1853. References External links Photo of Rara Avis welcome sign Former populated places in Itawamba County, Mississippi Former populated places in Mississippi {{US-ghost-town-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Helmick
Ralph Helmick (born 1952) is an American sculptor and public artist. Early life and education Helmick was born in Pittsburgh, PA, the middle of three sons of an electrical engineer and a homemaker. While in elementary school he partook in the Carnegie Museum’s renowned Tam O’Shanter art classes for children, whose alumni include Andy Warhol, Annie Dillard, Philip Pearlstein and Jonathan Borofsky. His family later moved to Williamsville, NY, outside Buffalo. Helmick received a BA in American Studies from the University of Michigan. He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and then earned an MFA in sculpture from a joint program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. As a child then a student, he was very influenced by the science and the design of the Foucault pendulum and Muybridge’s sequential photos. Career Helmick has created over 50 complex, layered sculpture commissions, working in various materials (metal, st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Apfel
Iris Apfel ( Barrel; born August 29, 1921) is an American businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion icon. In business with her husband, Carl, from 1950 to 1992, Apfel led a career in textiles, including a contract with the White House that spanned nine presidencies. In retirement, she drew acclaim for a 2005 show at the Costume Institute at The Met, Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring her collection of costume jewelry and styled with clothes on mannequins as she would wear it. She has become a fashion icon, she signed to IMG (company), IMG in 2019 as a model at age 97, and she was featured in a 2014 documentary called ''Iris'' by Albert Maysles. Early life Born Iris Barrel in Astoria, Queens, New York (state), New York on August 29, 1921, Apfel is the only child of Samuel Barrel (1897–1967), whose family owned a glass and mirror business, and his Russian-born wife, Sadye Barrel (née Asofsky) (1898–1998), who owned a fashion boutique. Both were Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964) is an American composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compositions, which typically balance intricate orchestration with passionate improvisation. He has led or been a member of many groups, has collaborated with many other musicians, and was awarded a 1999 MacArthur Fellowship. He plays tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, and baritone saxophone. He was also a member of NRG Ensemble. Biography Boston and Montreal Vandermark grew up in Massachusetts, graduating from Natick High School. His father, Stu Vandermark, was the Boston correspondent for ''Cadence Magazine'' and currently is a noted essayist on jazz, primarily concerned with improvisation. Vandermark led a jazz trio, the Fourth Stream, in Montreal while he was an undergraduate at McGill University. He graduated in 1986 with a deg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Bate Tichenor
Bridget Bate Tichenor (born Bridget Pamela Arkwright Bate) (November 22, 1917 – October 20, 1990) was a British surrealist painter of fantastic art in the school of magic realism and a fashion editor. Born in Paris, she later embraced Mexico as her home.Orenstein Ph.D., Gloria. "The Surrealist Cosmovision of Bridget Tichenor", ''FEMSPEC - an Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal'', Issue 1.1, June 1999. Family and early life in Europe Bate was the daughter of Frederick Blantford Bate (c. 1886–1970) and Vera Nina Arkwright (1883–1948), who was also known as Vera Bate Lombardi. Although born in France, she spent her youth in England and attended schools in England, France, and Italy. She moved to Paris at age 16, to live with her mother, where she worked as a model for Coco Chanel.Charles-Roux, Edmonde. ''Chanel: Her Life, Her World, and the Woman Behind the Legend She Herself Created'', New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975 , pp. 249, 250, 256, 323, 331–43, 355, 359. She lived b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Swan
The black swan (''Cygnus atratus'') is a large waterbird, a species of swan which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. Within Australia, the black swan is nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent upon climatic conditions. It is a large bird with mostly black plumage and a red bill. It is a monogamous breeder, with both partners sharing incubation and cygnet-rearing duties. The black swan was introduced to various countries as an ornamental bird in the 1800s, but has managed to escape and form stable populations. Described scientifically by English naturalist John Latham in 1790, the black swan was formerly placed into a monotypic genus, ''Chenopis''. Black swans can be found singly, or in loose companies numbering into the hundreds or even thousands. It is a popular bird in zoological gardens and bird collections, and escapees are sometimes seen outside their natural range. This bird is a regional symbol of both Western Australia, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satire VI
Satire VI is the most famous of the sixteen ''Satires'' by the Roman author Juvenal written in the late 1st or early 2nd century. In English translation, this satire is often titled something in the vein of ''Against Women'' due to the most obvious reading of its content. It enjoyed significant social currency from late antiquity to the early modern period, being read as a proof-text for a wide array of misogynistic beliefs. Its current significance rests in its role as a crucial body of evidence on Roman conceptions of gender and sexuality. The overarching theme of the poem is a dissuasion of the addressee Postumus from marriage; the narrator uses a series of acidic vignettes on the degraded state of (predominantly female) morality to bolster his argument. At c. 695 lines of Latin hexameter, this satire is nearly twice the length of the next largest of the author's sixteen known satires; ''Satire VI'' alone composes Book II of Juvenal's five books of satire. ''Satire VI'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
