Apropos

In re: Rightwing radiohead elicits apology from RNC Chairman Michael Steele
H. L. Mencken said of William Jennings Bryant:

He was born with a roaring voice that had the trick of inflaming half-wits.

Martin Kippenberger

Photo: Patrick Andrade for The New York Times
"The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika,’”
installation at MoMA.

Jonathan Horowitz

Photo: Courtesy of Jonathan Horowitz and Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
(click on image to enlarge)

Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times
President Obama delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress on 24 February.

"For seven years we have been a nation at war. No longer will we hide its price."

Israel

Photo: Menahem Kahana/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
NYTimes: Gray cranes flocked over the Agamon Ha-Hula Lake at the Hula valley in northern Israel. More than half a billion birds of some 400 hundred species pass through the Jordan Valley to Africa and back to Europe when summer comes. Some 25,000 Gray Cranes stayed this winter in the Agamon Ha-Hula Lake instead of migrating to Africa, taking advantage of the safety of this artificial water source.

Best Original Screenplay

Dustin Lance Black: Milk

Kabul

Photo: Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
Prosthetic limbs at the Kabul Orthopedic center in Afghanistan's capital.

Pablo Picasso

“Dice, Packet of Cigarettes, and Visiting-Card, Paris,” 1914

Illustrator: Michael Schmelling

Op-ed: NYTimes

Nicholas Wilder

Uncredited photo: 1970

Yves-Marie Hervé

By David Hockney, Paris, 1974

Universal Design

Photo: Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times
A shower fitted with a cushioned white folding chair made by the Danish company Pressalit Care.

Barry McGee

Abraham Lincoln

Illustration: Warren Schumacher
On the two hundredth anniversary of his birth.
President Obama:

"When President Lincoln was finally told of all the metal being used [in the building of] the Capitol, his response was short and clear: That is as it should be. The American people needed to be reminded, he believed, that even in a time of war, the work would go on; that even when the nation itself was in doubt, the future was being secured; and that on that distant day when the guns fell silent, a national capitol would stand, with a statue of freedom at its peak, as a symbol of unity in the land still mending its divisions."