Portal:The arts/Did you know/May, 2009

... that the sculpture Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science (pictured) depicts what historians have described as "the modern fantasy of (female) nature willingly revealing herself to the (male) scientist"?
... that T. S. Eliot's Paradiso-like poems of the Four Quartets (Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding) are modeled on the structure of his Inferno-like poem The Waste Land?
... that architect Henrik Bull designed several churches, but his most widespread works were coins designed for Norges Bank?
... that Mexican writer Juan José Arreola's short story The Switchman can be interpreted as a satire of the Mexican train system?
... that U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs described nearly every way to evade the draft in "Draft Dodger Rag"?