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...Niet was stunned when he came across a photograph of Muong Kuong Market in a Russian art book several years ago - the painting was allegedly hanging in the Oriental Museum in Moscow. Niet says he sent a letter to Oriental Museum officials, who confirmed that they owned the original. When Niet went back to the Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts to complain, "they told me that I painted two paintings and that I had sold one to Russia," he says. Sitting by her husband's side on a plastic stool, Niet's wife says she wishes that were true...
...paintings of the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger collections have already moved out of 32 Quincy Street. Early this summer, the 434,000 books, periodicals, and auction catalogs and over 1 million photographs and prints of the Fine Arts Library collection will also leave. As renovations to the Harvard Art Museum building begin, the Fine Arts Library is gearing up to move to two temporary locations in the basements of the Sackler Museum and Littauer Center. Transporting this huge volume of materials, however, is no easy task. Preparations for the move have been underway for nearly two years. The digital images...
...mission to secure the area less than an hour after the Red Shirts had decamped, the commander of the élite 11th Infantry Regiment of the Royal Guards walked over to a pile of picture frames cast aside in a corner of the makeshift room. Picking up one photograph, he gazed at the image of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, dapper in a pink blazer and pink shirt...
...warped, Web 2.0 understanding of privacy.During the Vietnam War, the nation’s first televised war, the American public was given essentially unrestricted access to how graphic and horrific war truly was. The propaganda newsreels of smiling soldiers and stereotyped enemies of WWII were replaced with the photographs, videos, and reports of embedded journalists, showing terrified young faces of American soldiers and piles of death wherever one looked. Until that time, the public’s overall exposure to that kind of violence had been limited to things like comparably tame horror movies, historical books about war, and sensationalist...
...series provided historical, theoretical, and practical insights into the relationship between design and society. The lectures ranged in subject matter, from the ways in which the Obama campaign used design to the controversy surrounding intellectual property that was sparked by Fairey’s use of an Associated Press photograph in his “Hope” poster. Steven Heller, who has acted as an art director at the New York Times for 33 years, provided a historical view of the role of propaganda in dictatorships in “Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State...