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Michael Murphy (born March 22, 1975) is an American artist, sculptor and pioneer of the perceptual art movement. Murphy became widely known during the 2008 U.S. presidential election, after creating the first portrait of candidate Barack Obama in 2007 that influenced thousands of artists [1] to contribute to the "Art for Obama" movement, [2] documented in Shepard Fairey's book Art for Obama ...
Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Washington, DC, US: The Princess from the Land of Porcelain: James McNeill Whistler: 1863–1865 Frick Collection New York, US: St Francis in the Desert: Giovanni Bellini: c. 1480: Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Germany: The Merchant Georg Gisze: Hans Holbein the Younger: 1497–1562 Museum Kampa Prague, Czech Republic
Skerry has been credited with more than 30 stories for National Geographic, [13] including seven on the front cover of the magazine. a The subjects of his stories have included species such as harp seals, [14] squid, [15] right whales, [16] Leatherback sea turtles, [17] bluefin tuna, [18] dolphins [19] and coral reefs. [20]
The collection includes: a North Atlantic right whale, a giant Lion's mane jellyfish model, a 1,500-US-gallon (5,700 L) aquarium containing live marine fish and corals, one female giant squid displayed in the center of the hall and a male displayed off to the side, an adult coelenterate, and a Basilosaurus. [81]
In Childhood's End, one of the characters stows away on an alien spacecraft by hiding inside a model of a giant squid battling a whale. A giant squid is a key player in Michael Crichton's novel Sphere, as well as in the film version. James Bond fights a giant squid in Ian Fleming's book, Dr. No. The scene is absent from the film adaption.
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The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.
Attempts to capture a glimpse of a live giant squid—described as "the most elusive image in natural history" [44] —were mooted since at least the 1960s. [45] Efforts intensified significantly towards the end of the century, with the launch of several multi-million-dollar expeditions in the late 1990s, though these were all unsuccessful.