When propaganda meets art: Picasso's biographer, the art critic John Richardson, describes some of Picasso's works on peace as sentimental, kitsch, crude, simplistic and out-of-date. But not all.
'Jeux de Pages' depicts medieval page boys - their absurdly helmeted leader in spiky armor on a comically caparisoned horse - trying to look warlike. That was how he saw war, Picasso told a group of friends in March 1959: medieval children playing nasty, medieval games.
Japan’s SLIM moon lander surprisingly survived a second lunar night
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The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon spacecraft has sent back images
after surviving its second lunar night – generally these periods are so
cold they d...
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