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Industry at Night, by Horatio C. Forjohn, c. 1940. Smithsonian American Art Museum, transfer from the General Services Administration.
Most discussions of fatigue at the turn of the twentieth century begin with neurasthenia (from a Greek term meaning nervous exhaustion), the diagnosis popularized by neurologist George M. Beard in 1869. Like other physicians at the time, Beard viewed the body as a machine powered by energy produced by the nerves. The depletion of that energy resulted in the condition he called neurasthenia. Although sufferers reported an array of vague symptoms, including irritability, weight loss, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and impotence, fatigue was the most important and rest a commonly prescribed remedy. We tend to assume we live in a time of unprecedented and overwhelming social and technological change. In the late nineteenth century, similar anxieties were provoked by the advent of telephones, telegraphs, trains, and what contemp
North Carolina Museum of Art Hires Lauren Applebaum as Jim and Betty Becher Curator of American Art
RALEIGH, North Carolina
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The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) has announced the appointment of Lauren Applebaum as curator of American Art. Applebaum previously worked at the NCMA on the 2018 exhibition
The Beyond: Georgia OâKeeffe and Contemporary Art as a GSK Curatorial Fellow in American Art. She will start her position Monday, May 3. She will be responsible for researching and expanding the NCMAâs American art holdings and as part of the curatorial team will strive to have the collection reflect multiple perspectives and varying dimensions of diversity. In addition she will organize special exhibitions focused on a range of subjects and themes in American art.
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University of Pennsylvania Libraries receives major gift of works by renowned photographer Arthur Tress
Arthur Tress, Secret Conversation, New York (1980), Facing Up series. Arthur Tress Photography Collection, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
PHILADELPHIA, PA
.-The University of Pennsylvania Libraries announced the gift of works by the renowned American contemporary photographer Arthur Tress (b. 1940, Brooklyn). Generously given by an anonymous donor, this outstanding collection part of which has already been appraised at $4.2M joins another recent gift of Tress photography given to the Penn Libraries by J. Patrick Kennedy, PAR97, and Patricia Kennedy, PAR97, for a combined 2,500 photographic prints. Together these collections document Tresss diverse and fascinating career and represent the largest collection of Tress photographic prints in the United States. In 2018, Tress, among the most original artists of his generation, gave the Penn Libraries his collect
. WASHINGTON With COVID-19 numbers dropping, officials in the nation s capital are relaxing a number of restrictions after more than a year of lockdown. The changes represent a step toward normality for Washington, D.C., residents and long-term hope for the city s vital tourism and convention industry, which has been devastated by the pandemic. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Monday that starting on May 1, gyms and fitness centers can operate at 50% capacity, and live music will be permitted in gardens and outdoor spaces. Restaurants will be permitted to seat 10 people per table outdoors, up from the previous limit of six per table. However, the 25% capacity limit for indoor dining will remain unchanged for now.