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President Trump thinks we should stop paying for ugly government buildings.
On Dec. 21, he announced the formation of a President’s Council on Improving Federal Civic Architecture. He wants more of the kind of buildings that tourists flock to see and fewer that resemble Soviet-style “brutalist” designs.
In 2007, my wife and I were in Warsaw, Poland, for a World Congress of Families conference. During our cab ride from the airport, we saw miles and miles of ugly modernist architecture foisted on the Polish people by their communist masters.
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art exhibits paintings and digital pigment prints by Ed Moses
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.- Saving the Best for Last, an exhibition of 24 paintings and six digital pigment prints by the late artist Ed Moses, opened at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art December 15, 2020 through February 6, 2021. Online viewing is available at telluridegallery.com. This collection of work includes a group of his most recent acrylic paintings, as well as digital prints provided by Patricia Correia Projects. It is the only 2020 solo show of Ed Moses work.
Even in his 9th decade, Southern California native Ed Moses spent most days in his Venice studio. In one of his final interviews, he told Los Angeles Times reporter Deborah Vankin You caught me on a good day! Pointing to freshly painted canvases drying in the sun, he explained, These are all self-portraits. These paintings have history, action - scars and blemishes, scratches and imperfections. These are me. S
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Openings and Closings: December 23 to December 29 Elizabeth Lanza
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
On January 3, the Toledo Museum of Art will say goodbye to their exhibition
The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter’s Stained-Glass Art. The exhibition is the first survey of the artist’s 37-year career. As a modern practitioner of stained-glass, Schaechter is considered a genius in her field as she redefines the medium. Featuring 45 of her stained-glass panels as well as related drawings, the exhibition is a must-see for those of us looking to shake our antiquated concept of stained glass. Make sure to plan your trip in advance here.
Monday, December 21, 2020
Breakfast Room at Belle Grove Plantation, White Chapel, Louisiana, by Walker Evans, 1935. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of Lee and Maria Friedlander, 2006.
Two years after South Carolina became the first state to secede from the United States in December 1860, President Abraham Lincolnaddressed the Senate and House of Representatives, announcing his support for a plan that would pay reparations to slaveholders in border states (slave states that had not seceded) if they would implement gradual emancipation and pledge loyalty to the union. It was a last-ditch attempt to prevent further secession, and one that Lincoln justified with his opinion that “gradual, and not sudden, emancipation” would be “better for all.”