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"?