Explore More SALT LAKE CITY — Justin Gaethje knocked out Dustin Poirier with a head kick one minute into the second round to win the main event lightweight bout at UFC 291 on Saturday night.
The third-ranked Gaethje (26-4) celebrated his victory by climbing to the top of the Octagon fence and doing a backflip off it. His perfectly timed headshot helped him avenge a loss to Poirier in 2018 when he suffered a fourth-round technical knockout via strikes. Read More...
Here are the Senate seats that will be critical in 2020 While nearly two dozen candidates are competing for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, that party is facing the opposite predicament in the Senate: not enough top-tier candidates are running, in part because many strong contenders are in the presidential race…
By Lisa Desjardins
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Frédéric Bazille, who died in battle about six months after completing this picture, had a crush on Édouard Manet. It was the same sort of crush that, a century later, up-and-coming artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat had on Andy Warhol.
Just as those aspiring artists of the early 1980s were in no doubt about Warhol’s importance, Bazille saw how radical and transformative Manet was going to be for modern art, even when most arbiters of taste continued to deride him as talentless — and like Haring and Basquiat, he was desperate to inveigle his way into his idol’s circle. Read More...
