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• “Best of the Decade” with the National Portrait Gallery

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 470
  Amy Henderson, cultural historian at the National Portrait Gallery, smiles for the camera. Photo by Lauren Johnson. As a new decade approaches, we here at ATM thought it a good time to reflect on the best of the last—asking Smithsonian curators to weigh in on their favorite exhibits, career moments and ...
  13 hours ago

• Providing a safe space

  
  YesBut's Images — Authority: 143
  Click on thumbnail to visit B&W Gallery Posted in Abstract, Architecture, Art, Copyright © All text and images by YesBut, Digital art, Digital photography, foto, fotos, Life, London, Nikon D40, people, photo, photo blog, photoblog, Photography, photos, pictures, Street Art, street photography Tagged: ...
  4 days ago

• Give someone Twiggy for Christmas!

  
  Official Digital Photographer News Blog — Authority: 480
  The Perfect Christmas Gift Idea… Treat someone special to a signed copy of Twiggy: A Life in Photographs while stocks last. At just £18.00* (10% off RRP) this beautiful hardback book, exclusively signed by Twiggy herself will make the perfect Christmas present this year. Order two copies for £36.00* and ...
  1 week ago

• Jane Bown – National Portrait Gallery

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 153
  JANE BOWN From 1 December 2009 Bookshop Gallery Admission Free A new display of fifteen photographs will celebrate the 60 th anniversary of Jane Bown’s relationship with The Observer and the publication of her new book, Exposures . Illustrating the longevity and scope of Bown’s career, the photographic ...
  1 week ago

• WANTED: Spring 2010 Interns

  
  Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog — Authority: 124
  EXPERIENCE FOR LIFE looking for ambitious, intelligent, undergraduate juniors, seniors and graduate students, interested in a career as a museum professional, working from office, nugget factory, art galleries, art & nature park, or two historic homes, with world-renowned institution fostering exploration of ...
  1 week ago

• Michael Landy: The new National Gallery Associate Artist

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 153
  Scrapheap Services, 1995 The National Gallery is delighted to announce that Michael Landy has agreed to become the next Rootstein Hopkins Foundation Associate Artist. Michael Landy will be the eighth Associate Artist to work at the National Gallery. Born in London in 1963, Landy studied at Goldsmiths College ...
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• Rose Frantzen: Portrait of Maquoketa

  
  Underpaintings — Authority: 116
  Rose Frantzen s monumental project, in which she spent a year painting portraits of 180 of her neighbors in Iowa, is currently on display at the Smithsonian Institutions National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.. In conjunction with the exhibit, The Old City Hall Press has produced Portrait of Maquoketa , a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Weekend Events: John Ford, Fortune Telling and a Crash Course in Portraiture

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 470
  Folio from a Falnama (ca.1550s-1560s). Image courtesy of the Sackler gallery. ED. NOTE: Please be aware that, due to Smithsonian Institution Internet outages scheduled for this weekend, some of the links given below may not be functional on Saturday, November 21 and Sunday November 22. Please visit our companion ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gay Icons: Part 1

  
  Manhattanchester — Authority: 109
  I decided to do my own response to the Gay Icons exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery which was, in the end, somewhat predictable (both in terms of the people asked to choose and the icons they selected) yet gratifying in some of its omissions. I haven’t seen the exhibition or all the portraits included and ...
  3 weeks ago

• The National Portrait Gallery’s Newest Prize — Marilyn Horne

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 470
  Artist John Footes depiction of a young Horne as Adalgisa in Bellini’s “Norma.” Photo courtesy of the NPG. Stroll through the main hall of the National Portrait Gallery this winter, and you are likely to see Shephard Fairey’s  already iconic “Hope” poster of President Barack Obama , followed by the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Events for the Week of 11/16-20: Free Movie Admission for Cell Phones, Stargazing, New Deal Artists and the Films of John Ford

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 470
  A 1:5 scale model of the support systems module of the Hubble Space Telescope. Image courtesy of the Air and Space Museum. Monday, November 16: Free Admission to Wild Ocean 3D for Recycled Cell Phones Do the environment a favor and part with your old cell phone in an ecologically friendly way—and catch a movie ...
  3 weeks ago

• SAAM and NPG, G Street

  
  The 42 — Authority: 466
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  4 weeks ago

• Returning briefly...

  
  Corrente — Authority: 624
  Ive been gone at the bloggers meetup for Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, which was great, and now Im catching up. Random comments:
  4 weeks ago

• Events for the Week of 11/9-13: Africa Meets Mexico, Home School Open House, Confederate Currency and More!

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 470
  Commemorate Veterans day with a tour around the National Mall and the Smithsonian museums. Postage stamp, "Hometowns honor their returning veterans," courtesy of the National Postal Museum. Monday, November 9: Curator’s Talk with Cesáreo Moreno The Anacostia Museum is pleased to host the newly-opened ...
  4 weeks ago

• Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Winner

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 153
  Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Winner -1.0 5 2009-11-06 01:06:31 1stAngel PORTRAIT OF ASPIRING PARALYMPIAN WINS TOP PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE Rosie Bancroft, 2008 by Paul Floyd Blake Copyright: Paul Floyd Blake Winner of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 announced at ...
  4 weeks ago

• Portraiture Now Series Gets Communal

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 470
  Jim by Rebecca Westcott (2003) / Jim Houser, Philadelphia, PA / NPG, SI “If one paints someone’s portrait, one should not know him if possible. No knowledge. I do not want to know him at all,” German Expressionist Otto Dix once said.  With that kind of detachment, it’s likely Dix wouldn’t have approved of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Borderstan Weekend November 7/8

  
  Borderstan — Authority: 538
  Axis Bar & Grill at 1340 U Street NW is a nice nice place to meet for drinks. They have a menu that will allow you to choose between sandwiches, pasta and more upscale dishes. We have never eaten there but have enjoyed time with friends at Axis. They have a great beer list.Cafe Luna [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  YesBut's Images — Authority: 143
  Click on image to enlarge Click on thumbnail to view B&W Gallery Posted in Abstract, Architecture, Art, Copyright © All text and images by YesBut, Digital art, Digital photography, foto, fotos, humour, internet, Life, London, Nikon D40, people, photo, photo blog, photoblog, Photography, ...
  5 weeks ago

• Paralympian portrait wins photography prize

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Paul Floyd Blakes portrait of 13-year-old swimmer Rosie Bancroft wins Taylor Wessing prize at National Portrait Gallery An image of youthful confidence and determination that was taken using Victorian photographic technology has been named winner of one the UKs leading portraiture prizes. Paul Floyd Blakes portrait ...
  5 weeks ago

• Vertical File Collection at the AA/PG Library

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 128
  Vertical files in art museums and libraries are repositories of “ephemera” -- things that are not intended to last a long time. Among other things, the ephemera collected in the artist files may be: announcements of exhibitions, small catalogs, press releases, clippings from various print sources, and ...
  5 weeks ago

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