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Poet Elizabeth Alexander to Read at Obama Inauguration
Gregg Chadwick Deep Song 38"x38" oil on linen 2005 Ars Poetica #100 I Believe Poetry, I tell my students, is idiosyncratic. Poetry is where we are ourselves, (though Sterling Brown said “Every ‘I’ is a dramatic ‘I’”) digging in the clam flats for the shell that snaps, emptying the proverbial pocketbook. Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God in the details, the only way to get from here to there. Poetry (and now my voice is rising) is not all love, love, love, and I’m sorry the dog died. Poetry (here I hear myself loudest) is the human voice, and are we not of interest to each other? -Elizabeth Alexander Poet Elizabeth Alexander Elizabeth Alexander Audio Files
Barack Obama Selected as TIME Magazine's Person of the Year
A New Day - Barack Obama Gregg Chadwick's Portrait of Barack Obama 48"x36" oil on linen 2008 "Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers." -Barack Obama (included in TIME Magazine's Person of the Year Issue online) More at: My page in TIME Magazine at: Gregg Chadwick - TIME Full Person of the Year Issue at: Barack Obama - TIME Magazine Person of the Year Chadwick Portrait of Obama on TIME Site
Portrait Of Obama On TIME Site
Gregg Chadwick's Portrait of Barack Obama is included in TIME Magazine's Person of the Year Issue online. Yes We Did! My page in TIME Magazine at: Gregg Chadwick - TIME Full Person of the Year Issue at: Barack Obama - TIME Magazine Person of the Year
Full Senate Report: "The Symbols of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo"
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SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE INQUIRY INTO THE TREATMENT OF DETAINEES IN U.S. CUSTODY Executive Summary “What sets us apart from our enemies in this fight… is how we behave. In everything we do, we must observe the standards and values that dictate that we treat noncombatants and detainees with dignity and respect. While we are warriors, we are also all human beings” -- General David Petraeus May 10, 2007 FRANCISCO JOSE DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES Spanish, 1746-1828 The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (El Sueño de la Razon Produce Monstruos) Plate 43 of Los Caprichos ca. 1803 Etching and aquatint. 7 1/8 x 4 3/4 (U) The collection of timely and accurate intelligence is critical to the safety of U.S. personnel deployed abroad and to the security of the American people here at home. The methods by which we elicit intelligence information from detainees in our custody affect not only the reliability of that information, but our broader efforts to win hearts and minds and attract allies...
Great Art is Always a Mystery.
photo by Norbert Miguletz "Great art is always a mystery." -Michael Kimmelman Michael Kimmelman has a wonderful piece in the New York Times entitled Unraveling a 15th-Century Whodunit . Great art i s a mystery and the knowledge of the hands that created many of the paintings and sculptures in museums across the globe remains lost.