The Infinite Art Tournament frees art appreciation from the straitjackets of chronology and categorical conventions in order to place it in a new straitjacket of its own devising. The IAT further seeks to delight its community of bracingly intelligent and drop-dead sexy readers with glib but cheerful dispatches from the worlds of literature, film, the visual arts, music, Shakespeare, chemistry, postal ephemera, vexillology, and hagiography.
And, the winner of the Infinite Art Tournament is:Pieter Bruegel.He beat Vincent van Gogh fair and square in the rematch for a tenth uninterrupted victory overall.Time to get started on the commemorative marker:
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May's Element of the Month:Manganese! Mn25Atomic Mass: 54.938 amuMelting Point: 1246 °CBoiling Point: 2061 °CLet's get this out of the way right up front: Everybody dislikes Manganes
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