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Balthus’s fans claim that he has singlehandedly preserved painting’s classic tradition, running from Piero delta Francesca right up through Cezanne, in the face of modern art’s insatiable appetite for novelty. That feat, apparently, required Balthus to paint a lot of nubile young girls. In “The Golden Days” (1945-46), a pubescent female with an off-the-shoulder decolletage gazes at her newly seductive self in a mirror while her skirt hikes itself (a Balthus trademark) past midthigh....

Rockstar has been setting an example for rule-breaking players by dropping the ban hammer over and over since Grand Theft Auto 5’s PC launch. The removal of cheaters and modders from GTA Online should make the multiplayer mode more fun for the rest of the community, but a few resourceful players have spotted a vulnerability in an upcoming change log that may allow banned players to return to the game anonymously and repeatedly....

Grand Theft Auto 5 is known for its memorable prologue mission that takes place in Ludendorff, North Yankton. It’s here that Michael, Trevor, and their partner Brad take part in a robbery attempt that goes wrong. The job devolves into a shoot-out and car chase, and when it’s all said and done, the story jumps ahead to present-day. Fans have picked apart the North Yankton section of the game in search of Easter eggs and clues, finding an alien frozen beneath the river in the process....

The fifth entry in the incredibly popular Grand Theft Auto series released back in 2013 alongside Grand Theft Auto Online, its online multiplayer mode. Both games have had several expansions and DLC released since then to add new content and keep the playerbase engaged. RELATED: GTA Online: How to Mute Other Players According to Canadian video game journalist Geoff Keighley, Grand Theft Auto 5 has now sold in excess of 140 million units since its launch in 2013....

Despite early problems, Grand Theft Auto Online has continued to grow for nearly a decade. The 30-player online experience is set in San Andreas where players can freely roam about the map, where almost anything is possible, from choosing to grow their status as a high-profile gangster, or maybe even creating race courses based on Mario Kart tracks. RELATED: Leaker Teases New GTA Online Content Coming Soon Posted on Rockstar’s official Twitter account, the developers have announced that the missions based around A Superyacht Life found within GTA Online will be rewarded with a 4xGTA$ and RP....

Granderson’s trademark enthusiasm is evident even in an off-day workout in the postseason The Brewers returned to Miller Park on Tuesday, where a handful of players including Granderson took part in a limited session. Milwaukee beat the Colorado Rockies on Sunday to advance to the NL Championship Series, when they will host the Los Angeles Dodgers starting Friday night. That means four days in between games for the surging Brewers, who have won 11 in a row....

Police said the victim had been home alone at a home on 38th Street NW when the masked suspect kicked in the door around 8 a.m. Thursday. The suspect reportedly assaulted the victim and demanded money, but the victim grabbed his gun and shot the suspect, who was later identified as his grandson, multiple times. The grandson, identified by police as 34-year-old Jessie Gibson, fled on foot and was found in a nearby motel, where he had been staying, with nonlife-threatening injuries, according to police....

The new co-op game – though you can also play it solo – lets you control the rest of the Bat-family instead, with Robin, Batgirl, Nightwing, and Red Hood all stepping up to the plate to protect Gotham after the death of the Caped Crusader. This is separate to the Suicide Squad game under development by Rocksteady (the original Batman Arkham developers), and instead Gotham Knights comes from Warner Bros....

So, who and what will we see in Gotham PD and how will it be different to the Fox show Gotham that only reached its conclusion a couple of years ago? When is the release date for Gotham PD? There’s no confirmed release date for Gotham PD at the time of writing, although the project has been in development for at least a year, with reports in 2020 outlining some of the plot ideas as well as the showrunners attached to the show....

Guardiola’s defending champions Manchester City are favourites to retain their crown in 2018-19 and have looked in excellent form in the opening four matches of the campaign. They trail Liverpool, Watford and Chelsea, though, after the trio picked up a maximum 12 points before the international break. Klopp’s Reds are seen by many as the main challengers to City and Gotze – who had four years with the Liverpool boss at Borussia Dortmund before joining Guardiola at Bayern Munich – believes it will be a close battle....

The memo focuses on a directive HHS made in April of 2020 that instructed hospitals to divert information on inpatient and intensive care beds in use from the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) to HHS Protect which partnered with private company TeleTracking Technologies, Inc. to collect the data. GAO reports that HHS made the move to gather “complete data and to capture more information,” using it to “provide assistance such as staff resources or supplies....

As fans of the Clueless Gamer segments may expect, Conan is relatively unskilled when it comes to playing Gears of War 4, and is guilty of numerous friendly-fire situations in the video. Wiz Khalifa, on the other hand, seems to have a great deal more experience with video games than Conan and some of the other celebrity guests he’s had on the show in the past, like Peter Dinklage and Lena Headey of Game of Thrones fame, for example....

There’s already quite the selection of weapons in Gears of War 3 including a gun that can blast chickens at the enemy but PLUM B of the MOCPages forums has created a rubber bland launching LEGO Lancer with fully functioning trigger and chainsaw mechanisms. PLUM B has posted several photos and a video that shows him blasting paper cut-out Locust and explaining the mechanism used to make a working trigger, safety and chainsaw....

Well, you’re in luck. Thanks to amateur game designer Jay Pavlina you can trade-in your copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii in favor of his free Super Mario Bros. Crossover flash game. Basically, the game allows you to revisit the original 8-bit Super Mario Bros. but with six playable characters including Mario, Samus, Mega Man, Bill R., Simon, and Link. In addition to the ability to stomp heads, many of the new characters have a distinct power, inspired by their respective titles, which they can use to take out any of Mario’s traditional enemies....

What an opener! Director Nicholas Hytner’s provocative new reading of Carousel floods an American classic with fresh air and fresh ideas. For audiences that know this 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical chiefly from the 1956 movie, the “Carousel” that opened last week at New York’s Lincoln Center will be a revelation. No longer the sexless story of a marshmallow (soprano) in love with a meanie (baritone), this production peels away swaths of sentimentality to lay bare the rough edges and ready passions of real drama....

Panthers kicker Graham Gano shed some light on the topic, while inadvertently coming to the Patriots defense. MORE: Gronkowski responsible for Deflate Gate | AFC Championship photos | Aaron Rodgers on ball inflation After realizing people thought he was sticking up for the Patriots, Gano set the record straight.

After all, Russia’s ban includes other essential food like rye, barley, corn, soy beans and sunflower oil. And it could get worse. These bans were originally imposed when Russia seemed to have largely weathered the COVID19 storm. But these past two weeks, confirmed that COVID19 cases in Russia have sky-rocketed, taking it to the third highest globally. Given the ensuing tidal wave of economic disruption, there is a good chance these current bans will not only persist beyond the summer, but that more essential foods will be added to the list....

While the Best Global Music Album originated so that international performers exhibiting “non-European, indigenous traditions” could be recognized, the category now represents global albums outside the GRAMMY category umbrella that make a splash with the Western diaspora. The category has seen a diverse array of competitors, from the daughter of an Indian Classical maestro (Anoushka Shankar) to a South African gospel group (Soweto Gospel Choir). It is the perfect category for a gateway to eclectic music....

RELATED: Every Gran Turismo Game, Ranked Despite the technical and content progression of the series, the originals still hold up to this day with their content and gameplay. 5 Graphics Visually, a lot of PS1 games did not age well. One of the games during that era that still looks aesthetically pleasing would be the Final Fantasy series, but that was mainly due to the pre-rendered backgrounds. While it wouldn’t be fair to compare Gran Turismo with an RPG with a large budget, the graphics were in a league of their own....