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MUSIC

SERJ TANKIAN

Serj Tankian

System of a Down vocalist Serj Tankian fused operatic intensity, political outrage and Armenian history into some of alternative metal’s most confrontational and unpredictable music.

ART

DOROTHEA TANNING

Dorothea Tanning

Painter, sculptor and writer Dorothea Tanning opened domestic interiors onto unruly dream worlds where doors, bodies and identities refuse to remain fixed.

FILM

QUENTIN TARANTINO

Quentin Tarantino

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino transformed his encyclopedic knowledge of cinema into audacious collisions of crime, comedy, violence, music and pop-cultural memory.

FILM

ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor grew from Hollywood child star into a commanding dramatic actor whose turbulent private life, screen magnetism and AIDS activism made her an enduring cultural force.

FILM

LAURETTE TAYLOR

Laurette Taylor

Actor Laurette Taylor became a Broadway legend in her husband J. Hartley Manners’ Peg o’ My Heart before delivering a celebrated comeback performance as Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie.

ART

JESSICA TEFFER

Jessica Teffer

Provincetown multimedia artist and alter ego, Dump Betty, Jessica Teffer transforms embroidery, discarded materials, local history and pop-cultural debris into playfully subversive art and music.

ART

ANN TEMKIN

Ann Temkin

Curator Ann Temkin has shaped the public understanding of modern painting and sculpture through landmark exhibitions, scholarship and her stewardship of the Museum of Modern Art’s collection.

FILM

SHIRLEY TEMPLE

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple sang and danced her way through the Great Depression to become Hollywood’s most famous child star before beginning a second public life as an American diplomat.

BOOKS

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson made himself a character inside the story, transforming reporting into Gonzo journalism through savage humor, chemical excess and an unrelenting contempt for American hypocrisy.

FILM

UMA THURMAN

Uma Thurman

Actor Uma Thurman brought statuesque poise, sly intelligence and physical ferocity to roles ranging from the dangerously cool Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction to the avenging Bride of Kill Bill.

ART

TITIAN

Titian

Venetian Renaissance master Titian used luminous color, commanding portraits and increasingly liberated brushwork to transform the possibilities of European painting.

FILM

THELMA TODD

Thelma Todd

Actor and comedian Thelma Todd brought sharp timing and sophisticated mischief to early Hollywood comedy before her sudden death at age twenty-nine became one of the era’s enduring mysteries.

TV

LILY TOMLIN

Lily Tomlin

Comedian and actor Lily Tomlin turned an unforgettable gallery of eccentrics, truth-tellers and social misfits into five decades of incisive American satire.

ART

HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec captured the performers, dancers, drinkers and night people of fin-de-siècle Paris in daring compositions that helped transform commercial posters into modern art.

MUSIC

ALLEN TOUSSAINT

Allen Toussaint

New Orleans pianist, songwriter, producer and arranger Allen Toussaint quietly shaped American rhythm and blues through elegant grooves, sly melodies and an extraordinary catalogue of enduring songs.

ART

DAVE TREE

Dave Tree

Artist, activist and TREE frontman Dave Tree carries the confrontational spirit of Boston hardcore across painting, printmaking, performance and community-built underground art spaces.

ART

SELINA TRIEFF

Selina Trieff

Provincetown painter Selina Trieff populated luminous gold-leaf stages with solemn, androgynous figures whose theatrical stillness brings ancient ritual into the modern world.

POLITICS

LEON TROTSKY

Leon Trotsky

Revolutionary theorist Leon Trotsky helped lead the Bolshevik seizure of power and build the Red Army before losing his struggle with Stalin, living in exile and dying by an assassin’s hand.

FASHION

AGNÈS TROUBLÉ

Agnès Troublé

Designer Agnès Troublé built agnès b. around understated clothes, artistic independence and enduring friendships with the musicians, filmmakers and visual artists of the international underground.

BOOKS

JIM TULLY

Jim Tully

Former hobo, boxer and circus laborer Jim Tully brought the hard lives of America’s dispossessed into literature before becoming one of Hollywood’s most feared and unsentimental chroniclers.

FASHION

TWIGGY

Twiggy

With her cropped hair, painted lashes and slender silhouette, Twiggy became the unmistakable face of Swinging London before extending her career into acting, singing and design.

TV

THE TWILIGHT ZONE

The Twilight Zone

Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone smuggled moral inquiry and social criticism into American living rooms through unforgettable tales of paranoia, conformity, technology and the supernatural.

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