Sean Combs, a rapper and record executive who made headlines when he bought a $21.1 million Kerry James Marshall painting in 2018, was sentenced in federal court on Friday to 50 months, or 4 years and 2 months. He was also fined $500,000, the maximum amount allowable by law. The rapper, who also went by...
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In New Album, Taylor Swift Reclaims the ‘Fate of Ophelia,’ the Subject of a Famed Painting
Taylor Swift‘s newly released album The Life of a Showgirl features a song that draws on a familiar yet tragic narrative taken up by artists and writers alike across time. The first track on the record, titled “The Fate of Ophelia,” refers the character who meets a tragic end in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. In...

