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Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery Acquire
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum have jointly purchased the tour de force “Lessons of the Hour” (2019) by artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien. The moving image installation interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of 19th-century activist, writer, orator and philosopher Frederick Douglass (1818–1895). Through…
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Learn ‘stories behind the songs’ at Firehouse Art Center concert
Musician, filmmaker and teacher Dave Calkins has performed his music in venues from NPR to Carnegie Hall. On Nov. 11, he will bring a concert of his “Stories Behind the Songs” to Longmont. Also performing will be well-known local musicians Tim Ostdiek and Jenny Balagna. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. in Firehouse Art…
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Visual Arts Market Development Fund Grant
The Visual Arts Market Development Fund (the Fund) is a key program of the Queensland Government’s Grow 2022-2026, the second action plan for Creative Together 2020-2030. The fund is focused on enabling key international opportunities that strengthen exposure, expand markets and revenue potential for Queensland’s visual arts craft and design sector. Objectives Visual Arts Market Development Fund:…
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Centennial Art Center’s Annual Student and Staff Holiday Exhibit is Coming to Town
Centennial Art Center kicks off the holiday season with its Annual Student and Staff Holiday Exhibit and Sale, on display November 17 – December 21, 2023. During this season Centennial Art Center dresses itself in holiday cheer and unwraps a beautiful display of artwork and handcrafted gifts created by its talented students and staff. The…
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Van Gogh’s final flourish — an unforgettable exhibition in Paris
“Ah well, really we can only make our paintings speak,” Van Gogh wrote in a note found at his death on July 29 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise, a village on the outskirts of Paris. He had moved there 10 weeks earlier from the asylum in St Remy, Provence, believing his mental disturbance came partly from living…
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Slipping into ‘Bliss Consciousness’ at the Arts Lounge
Because he frequently works with a mixed-media format, Germantown-based visual artist Mikel Elam repurposes a lot of ordinary objects in his art. It’s evident in pieces adorned with materials like pennies—collected from his once-upon-a-time travels with Miles Davis, he says—and, curiously, keys. One day while working at an art supplies store, he recalls, a gentleman came…
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Visual Arts League: Bouncy Balls to Van Gogh – The Wright State Guardian
Visual Arts League | Graphic by Bethany Althauser | The Wright State Guardian As a new campus organization, the Visual Arts League is full speed ahead as they explore visual art from photos to puzzles in their weekly meetings. How the organization formed If students made their own bouncy ball at Fall Fest, they have…
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Kathy Lovas’ resonant art at Dallas’ Liliana Bloch Gallery
There’s a lot of resonance in Kathy Lovas’ art. Only incidentally sonic, but definitely visual and emotional. Associations personal, familial and to some extent cultural are scattered through the Dallas artist’s mixed media retrospective at Liliana Bloch Gallery. A wooden chair from a long-ago family dining room sets off waves of associations, even a memento…
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At National WWII museum, Dallas’ Robert Edsel greatly expands his mission
Dallas’ own Robert Edsel is the founder of the internationally acclaimed Monuments Men and Women Foundation, which has dedicated itself to uncovering and rescuing art plundered by the Nazis during World War II. A tennis star at St. Mark’s School of Texas and Southern Methodist University, Edsel, now 66, left behind a lucrative career in…
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Bridging a gap of understanding: Month-long visual arts and performance festival, “A Stone’s Throw,” examines the experiences of military veterans and their families
Though she was too young to understand many details at the time, Mollye Maxner remembers the Vietnam War had a profound effect on her family. Her father, Steve Maxner, served as a combat medic in the war and endured emotional turmoil from his experience for years afterward. Mollye Maxner, who grew up in Northampton and…