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Arnold Newman photography exhibit opens at upstate NY museum
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — A new exhibit of the renowned portrait photographer Arnold Newman's work has opened at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown.
"Arnold Newman: Luminaries of the Twentieth Century in Art, Politics and Culture," a display of more than 60 portraits by the New York City-born photographer, opened this week and runs through Dec. 31.
During his decades-long career Newman photographed some of the world's most famous politicians, artists and celebrities, including Pablo Picasso, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Woody Allen and Marilyn Monroe.
Newman's manner of photographing his subjects eventually became known as environmental portraiture, and his work appeared in such magazines as Life, Vanity Fair and Esquire.
Newman died in Manhattan in 2006 at 88.
Cuban zoologist, education head to get honorary NY degrees
NEW YORK (AP) — A Cuban zoologist and the U.S. secretary of education are being recognized with honorary Ph.D.s from New York City's American Museum of Natural History.
Gilberto Silva Taboada (tuh-BOH-uh-duh) and Secretary of Education John King Jr. will be honored on Monday during a commencement ceremony at the museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School. In 2009, the AMNH became the first museum in the nation to grant Ph.D.s.
The 88-year-old Taboada is a world-renown expert on bats who has long collaborated with the museum's scientists. He was part of its 2015 scientific expedition that investigated Humboldt National Park, one of the most remote and biologically important areas in Cuba.
King served as education commissioner of New York state before being tapped by President Barack Obama to lead the U.S. Department of Education.
Rocker Vince Neil pleads guilty in Las Vegas battery case
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery for a sidewalk scuffle involving a woman outside a Las Vegas Strip resort in April.
Defense lawyer Richard Schonfeld said Friday the plea was submitted in writing Thursday in Las Vegas, and the 55-year-old rocker didn't appear in court.
The judge fined Neil $1,000 and ordered him to undergo impulse control counseling and stay out of trouble for six months. Schonfeld says Neil is glad to put the case behind him. The case came to light after bystander video surfaced showing actor Nicolas Cage physically restraining Neil last April 7 outside the Aria casino-hotel.
Cage wasn't charged with a crime.
Neil was accused of grabbing the woman and pulling her to the ground.
Motley Crue is known best for hard partying, famous girlfriends and 1980s-era hits like "Girls, Girls, Girls" and "Dr. Feelgood."