Daily True or False
May 28, 2026

In 1529, Michelangelo was appointed to oversee the fortifications of Florence, which was under siege by Papal and Imperial forces.

Alberto Giacometti was born on October 10, 1901, in Borgonovo, a hamlet near Stampa, Switzerland. His father was also a painter.

Alongside Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, Man Ray helped establish Dada in New York in the 1910s and early 1920s.

The Calder Memorial Trophy is named after Frank Calder, the NHL's first president, not the sculptor Alexander Calder.

Many art critics dismissed Norman Rockwell's work as sentimental and overly commercial, though he gained broad public popularity.

John Singer Sargent was a painter, not a writer. The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 was awarded to George Bernard Shaw. Sargent never won any Nobel Prize.

False: Serena reached world number 1 in doubles in June 2010, alongside her sister Venus. She has also won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles, all with Venus.

Hiroshige inherited the position of fire warden from his father and held it for many years before dedicating himself to art. He later passed the role to his son.

Otoro is the fattiest, most prized cut of bluefin tuna, taken from the belly. Its rich, melt-in-your-mouth texture makes it the most expensive sushi ingredient.

Hiroshige studied under Utagawa Toyohiro, not Hokusai. While both were major ukiyo-e artists, they were contemporaries, with no student-teacher relationship.