Portal:The arts/Did you know/August, 2008

... that John Buckler created 13,000 drawings and paintings of historic British buildings, such as Ely Cathedral?
... that the album title Even Heroes Need a Parachute was chosen to emphasize "the common ground that all humans share"?
... that the North German baroque organ in Örgryte Nya Kyrka is the largest meantone organ in the world?
... that New York abstract painter Dennis Ashbaugh is one of the first artists to employ DNA marking patterns in paintings?
... that Ronald Ribman's play The Journey of the Fifth Horse, based on a short story by Ivan Turgenev, won an Obie Award and starred a young Dustin Hoffman?

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