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• Using Painted Drums To Create Chic Southwestern Interior Design

  
  Voice From Home — Authority: 133
  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: 117
    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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• Artist Jeanne-Claude Dies

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 133
  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: 119
  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: 119
  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: 128
  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: 116
  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: 133
  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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• Consider the Difference: American Women Artists

  
  Authentic Art Visions — Authority: 123
  Linda Nochlin, Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art Linda Nochlin Consider the Difference: American Women Artists from Cassatt to Contemporary November 18 , 7 p.m. Smithsonian American Art Musuem Linda Nochlin, the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor ...
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• Understanding the wild west: Visiting a Native American pueblo

  
  Gadling — Authority: 693
  Filed under: Arts and Culture , North America , United States New Mexico , like much of the western US, has long been home to many Native American tribes who shaped the history of the region every bit as much as the white settlers and cowboys who came after them. Around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos, ...
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• 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: 133
  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 ...
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• Hot off the Press: Postcards for Jim Lommasson at the New American Art Union

  
  CoinOp — Authority: 128
  Oaks Park Pentimento runs through December at NAAU in SE Portland. Postcard, 1/1, Environment 120# Cover Natural, Pantone soy-based inks. Pentimento: n. The reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over. The word derives from the Italian pentirsi , meaning to repent. Jim ...
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• Modeling the Hills

  
  Woodblock Dreams — Authority: 119
  Back in the studio again today -- yay! I added some burnt umber here and there on the hills to give them some shape. Might have to do it again in some spots; well see as I deepen some of the other colors. Copyright Woodblock Dreams blog
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• Roy DeCarava, 1919–2009

  
  Eye Level — Authority: 116
  Roy DeCaravas Lingerie, New York Roy DeCarava, an American master, died October 27, 2009, a few weeks shy of his ninetieth birthday. Born in Harlem in 1919, and coming to adulthood during the Harlem Renaissance, DeCarava became a photographer of the street and the people who inhabited that day-to-day world. He ...
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• Now Showing | Sharon Core at the Gallery at Hermès

  
  The Moment — Authority: 706
  The photographer Sharon Core has accrued an almost cultlike group of followers, including yours truly and a handful of editors here at T. The Moment caught up with Core to talk about "Early American," a new exhibition of breathtaking still lifes, which opens tonight at New Yorks Gallery at Hermès.
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• Art and Celebrities to Shine at GLAAD’s 8th Annual OUTAuction NYC

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  Join us at GLAAD’s 8th Annual OUTAuction, presented by Bud Light, on Sunday November 15th, 2009 from 5:00pm-9:00pm at New York City’s Metropolitan Pavilion! Since 2002, GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, has produced this annual ...
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• Drawing Conclusions – the Rise of Drawing in the Contemporary Art Scene

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 163
  Not so long ago, drawing became the new painting. From small-scale and intimate to wall-sized, highly-worked or resolutely low-fi; whatever its format, the re-appearance of a once side-lined medium marked a dramatic shift in its fortunes and indeed, assumptions about art in general. But why the change? Was it that, in ...
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• Picture This: Playing Punball

  
  Eye Level — Authority: 116
  A museum visitor plays William T. Wileys Punball: Only One Earth. Youve seen the William T. Wiley exhibition. Now play the game! What, you havent seen the show yet? Well, nows your opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. On Thursday, November 12, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., visitors will have a rare opportunity ...
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• Native American art from Sheenasha Warner

  
  More to Explore — Authority: 127
  by Star Seastone, Visitor Services Assistant We have some beautiful new pieces in the Museum store, created by Native American artist Shéénasha Warner. Shéénasha is Laguna Pueblo/Navajo-Born for Salt Clan-Ashiihi/Cherokee and originally learned traditional crafts from her family. She is also a graduate of the ...
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• Uncover Artistic Treasures at Artcrawl Harlem

  
  Vacations Blog — Authority: 476
  A painting featured during ArtCrawl Harlem Soho and Chelsea may grab all the attention when it comes to New York’s art scene but Harlem boasts a vibrant array of galleries and museums, minus the crowds.   Artcrawl Harlem rounds up some of these art discoveries with a three and half- hour trolley tour that ...
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