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• American Art Museum – United State’s First Museum

  
  The Life of Luxury — Authority: 125
  The world famous Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. is the true symbol of America’s dedication to its rich history. The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) houses the nation’s first collection of American art, and includes one of the largest and most inclusive collections in the world. The Smithsonian ...
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• A Thomas Moran Masterpiece Returns to the Renwick

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 425
  The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1893-1901) by Thomas Moran. Image courtesy of the museum. Recently, the Smithsonian American Art Museum welcomed home a seminal work of landscape painting after a four-month vacation at the Whitney Gallery of Western Art, located at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, ...
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• An Art Fair to Remember

  
  Urban Art and Antiques — Authority: 133
  The opening reception for The American Art Fair at the National Academy really topped off a day of looking at paintings. The caliber of paintings I’d say could probably rival what’s in the NA’s permanent collection. The event was first-class. We were greeted with a quartet and handed wine before we ascended the ...
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• Memorial Concert for Hale Smith Planned for Spring, in Lieu of Service on Passing

  
  AfriClassical — Authority: 137
  In an email to AfriClassical, John Malveaux quotes Darryl Taylor of the African American Art Song Alliance, http://www.darryltaylor.com/alliance/ , on plans to commemorate the passing of composer Hale Smith: “Subject: Hale Smith Juanita Smith informs me there will be no service for Hale. A memorial concert will be ...
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• Darryl Taylor Offers Condolences on Passing of Composer Hale Smith

  
  AfriClassical — Authority: 137
  [“Music of Hale Smith”; CRI 860 (2000)] John Malveaux informs AfriClassical: “Darryl Taylor sent a message to the members of African American Art Song Alliance" : "Subject: Hale Smith, June 25, 1925 - November 24, 2009 It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the passing of the brilliant ...
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• Happy Thanksgiving :: The Thankful Poor by Henry Ossawa Tanner

  
  ::the open end:: — Authority: 137
  1894 Related TOE posts: Henry Allingham, World’s Oldest Man, Dies :: I Can’t Believe You Don’t Have Life Insurance! How to be Optimistic and Happy :: Zelda How to be Optimistic and Happy :: Mario
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• Bernard Ruhes painting marathon, Part 2

  
  All This Is That — Authority: 430
  More photos of Bernard Ruhes painting marathon in Seattle last Saturday, inclding a couple while he is working out our portrait.   Click the photos to enlarge... ---o0o---
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• Millennium Arts Salon Kicks Off It’s All About Art: Celebrating 10

  
  Authentic Art Visions — Authority: 123
  On Saturday, November 21st, The Millennium Art Salon held it’s first Annual Salon Club Membership Meeting and Drive at the MAS headquarters.  The meeting applauded the current and new members of the MAS board and volunteers, who are vital to program execution.  A full crowd of board members, volunteers, ...
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• Thanksgiving, 1969 by Werner Drewes

  
  Eye Level — Authority: 410
  Thanksgiving, 1969 by Werner Drewes Forty years ago, German-born American artist Werner Drewes created this colorful woodcut in honor of what may be the most typically American holiday. I like it for its vivid lines, burst of energy, and full-blown spectrum, especially the use of the color purple. In the woodcut, ...
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• Copy That! Wait, Dont. Whitney Ponders Problem of Replication Modern Art

  
  Home | The New York Observer — Authority: 742
  Earlier this year, the conservation department at the Whitney Museum of American Art was given the task of preparing Claes Oldenburg’s Ice Bag-Scale C for exhibition in a retrospective. The work, a massive, fan-powered contraption 12 feet in diameter made of nylon cloth and polyester resin, was first created in ...
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• Using Painted Drums To Create Chic Southwestern Interior Design

  
  Voice From Home — Authority: 132
  Are you looking for a great rustic decorating idea? Try using painted drums, made by Native American Indians, to give your home true, southwestern style. I was recently looking for a good way to redecorate my home and give it a rustic, western flare, and started buying beautiful southwestern accessories for rustic ...
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• Art that Obama would Hate

  
  Action, Not Words! — Authority: 119
    One Nation Under God This is Art that tells a story.  Art that inspires and creates remembrance.  As a christian nation under our biblical God we are a great nation.  When we except the religious plurality that Obama believes our country to be, we will cease to be a great nation.
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• Remembering Jeanne-Claude (1935–2009)

  
  Eye Level — Authority: 410
  When I heard that artist Jeanne-Claude had died, I went back to the blog post I wrote last year about her visit to American Art with her other half, Christo. Together, as husband and wife and as artists, Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been reinventing the contemporary art landscape for more than fifty years with ...
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• Lonnie Powell: Masterful drawings at Portfolio, STL

  
  Riehlife — Authority: 123
  Click here for Lonnie Powell’s bio and more details about his Porfolio exhibit. I just came back from viewing Lonnie Powell’s show at the Porfolio Gallery and Education Center in St. Louis. Powell works in a variety of styles and media in his show “Still All Over the Place” that will be up through January ...
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• Artist Jeanne-Claude Dies

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 425
  Installation artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Photo courtesy of Wolfgang Volz/LAIF/Redux The artist Jeanne-Claude passed away last night at a New York hospital of a brain aneurysm, according to the Associated Press . She was 74. Jeanne-Claude, also known as Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, was born in ...
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• From the latest episode of Parks & Recreation

  
  Hrag Vartanian — Authority: 415
  Tom Haverford says, “A piece of art caused me to have an emotional reaction. Is that normal?” Episode: The Camel
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• How Do We Reform the Art World?

  
  Hrag Vartanian — Authority: 415
  Charlie Finch has an interesting idea: The auction houses should be required by law to tell us who bought what, but, more importantly, transparency would be in the best interests of the auction world because more people would get involved and it would be more fun! Unfortunately, “fun” is the last thing that art ...
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• Latin American Art Auction at Christies

  
  NYC ? NYC — Authority: 129
  Claudio Bravo (Chilean, b. 1936) White, Blue and Yellow Papers , Oil on canvas, 57 ½ x 45 in, Painted in 2004. Estimate: $400,000-$600,000 F ernando Botero (Colombian, b. 1932) Mujer Fumando , Bronze with dark brown patina 74x141 ½ x 62 ¾ inches, executed in 1987. Estimate: ...
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• Luce en Español/Luce in Spanish

  
  Eye Level — Authority: 410
  Recently, American Art staff member Tierney Sneeringer was very excited to conduct her first Spanish tour, welcoming the "Friends of the Canal Museum" to the Luce Foundation Center . To schedule a Spanish tour with Tierney, e-mail AmericanArtLuce@si.edu . Tierney Sneeringer, una empleada del Smithsonian American ...
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• Linda Nochlin Speaks at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 425
  Linda Nochlin will speak at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Wednesday, November 18 at 7PM. The portrait of her and her late husband, Richard Pommer is by Philip Pearlstein. Photo is by Shandor Hassan. Linda Nochlin, the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of Fine ...
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