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Alice celebrating her Whitney Museum retrospective in 1974 © courtesy of the Estate of Alice Neel and David Zwirner The late US painter Alice Neel is deservedly undergoing something of a renaissance, with a long-awaited retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ( People Come First, 22 March-1 August) and the publication this month of the first paperback edition of Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty, biography by Phoebe Hoban. The book about ...

In doing that, the board has been looking at the potential of new buildings. Monday, the directors looked for classroom space in Buena Vista’s past as well, hearing from representatives of the Buena Vista Heritage Museum, which was first built as a county courthouse, then used as a school after the county seat moved to Salida. “In our first grade and kindergarten classes we have over 25 students in each of those three classes, so we’re at the limit of what we can host now. So ove...

"American Citizens (to the Polls)" by T.W. Wood, 1867 Passersby would not suspect that a refurbished 1950s Catholic grammar school in Montpelier contains masterful paintings from the 19th century as well as works from the 1930s Works Progress Administration. In one room on the second floor of the Center for Arts and Learning, visitors can linger over the expressive faces and tiny details of an 1860s genre painting by Montpelier native Thoma...

California Lost 175,000 ‘Creative Economy’ Jobs, Study Finds “There is no economic recovery in our area unless a working creative engine is driving it,” said Representative Karen Bass of California. The Broad Museum in Los Angeles. Job loss in the “creative economy workforce” reached 24 percent in Los Angeles County, according to a report released Thursday by the Otis College of Art and Design.Credit...Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press Feb. 25, 2021 Arts advocat...

Historic marker honors Black cemetery erased during construction of MacDill Port Tampa Cemetery disappeared when the base was constructed in the late 1930s.     MacDill Air Force Base on Tuesday dedicated a historic marker denoting the spot where the erased Port Tampa Cemetery was located. [ Paul Guzzo ] He was stillborn in 1930 during the third trimester. But the Williams’ granddaughter, Hillsborough Circuit Judge Lisa Campbell, said she has been told that the baby was so loved that...

MacDill’s marker is part an ongoing effort throughout the Tampa Bay area to memorialize Black cemeteries that were erased as historic Black communities were redeveloped during the early- through mid-20th century.

Artists have been begging for pandemic relief for nearly a year. In New York, Gov. Cuomo’s announcement of the NY PopsUp program, a series of free performances headlined by celebrities like Chris Rock and Alec Baldwin, was hardly the answer we’ve been waiting for. In fact, to many of us, it felt like a slap in the face.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt at OKC Fairgrounds Park July 9, 1938 (Oklahoma Historical Society) Wister Dam and Lake Project discussed by President Roosevelt during his July 1938 stop in Wister. (U.S. Corps of Engineers) Franklin D. Roosevelt’s private rail car during his days as governor of New York and through the first years of his presidency, known as the Marco Polo (Southeastern Railway Museum) An assembled crowd during President Roosevelt’s 1938 trip across the country. This p...

Obamas economic failures drive Bidens push to go big with stimulus Liz Peek, Opinion Contributor © Getty Images Obamas economic failures drive Bidens push to go big with stimulus Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not necessarily represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. President Biden says we must "go big" on economic stimulus. Breaking his promise to work across the aisle, Biden is set to jam through...

Critical Thinking Difficult Issues: Unsafe Deposit Glenn Adamson National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC. What would burn, they burned. They crushed the rest underfoot. And when they were done, they blew up the whole thing with dynamite. The year was 1935. The setting, just a few miles outside of Spiro, Oklahoma. Centuries earlier, indigenous Americans had invested this site with great spiritual significance. On top of a sacred mound built by their own ancestors, they constructe...