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...Anderson said. These galleries are projected to open in 2012 when the renovations of the Fogg are finished. According to Stebbins, the Harvard Art Museum had been collecting American art almost since the University’s establishment, when it began its tradition of commissioning local artists to paint portraits of University presidents. The Department of American Art now holds about 3,000 American and Canadian paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts from the 17th to 20th centuries, according to the department Web site...
...first myth is that animal protection is the preserve of a white, liberal elite. Proposition Two’s opponents sought to paint the initiative as the concoction of confused urban do-gooders, and pointed to the support of prominent Hollywood stars like James Cromwell and Ellen DeGeneres as evidence. The opponents ran ads (funded by the nation’s largest agribusinesses) in which salt-of-the-earth farmers reminded blue collar workers that in lean economic times, they couldn’t afford to jeopardize their right to a cheap dozen pack of eggs...
Paul Klee's childlike drawings and abstract paintings of colorful dots and shapes made him, without doubt, one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Underneath the vibrant, tongue-in-cheek surfaces of his work, Klee created a parallel universe, one in which he tried to capture and interpret almost every aspect of human existence, including its dark side. He once famously claimed: "I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For I reside just as much with the dead as with the unborn." While the quote might suggest he preferred to dwell in - and paint from...
...Conservatives try to paint the NEA (pun intended) and its benefactors as the peace, love, and naked calligraphy crowd—ridiculous, immoral, and totally out of touch with normal Americans—ignoring the Endowment’s bipartisan past. It was Theodore Roosevelt (Class of 1880) who established the first arts-oriented federal advisory board, the Council of Fine Arts, and Dwight D. Eisenhower who created a national cultural center for the performing arts, which 13 years and a cultural revolution later opened its doors as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...
...case of Westminster council versus Banksy (The Times, October 24th) raises an interesting legal precedent. Normally permission to paint a wall is only required from a local authority if the building is of listed historic value or the painting is commercial in nature, but now artistic judgement appears to come into...