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#NowYouSeeUs is open now at Tate Britain! Discover the story of how women artists in Britain championed access to art training and broke boundaries, forging a path for generations to come. Book your tickets today. Until 13 October https:// bit.ly/3It10IG #NowYouSeeUs is open now at Tate Britain! 🎨 Discover the story of how women artists in Britain championed access to art training and broke boundaries, forging a path for generations to come. 🎟️ Book your tickets today. Until 13 October ➡️ https://t.co/NrTXXGg8hA pic.twitter.com/fLieXDaP80 — Tate (@Tate) May 16, 2024

100 years ago, artists and writers were forging new visions of Blackness—across America and abroad. 🎧 NOW STREAMING 🎧 Tune in to "Harlem Is Everywhere," a new five-part podcast reflecting on the legacy of the #HarlemRenaissance , hosted by writer and critic Jessica Lynne… pic.twitter.com/cWWciMDgBY — The Metropolitan Museum of Art (@metmuseum) February 26, 2024

From the National Gallery in London: "Curator Bart Cornelis explains the meaning behind a hidden monster and skull in this 17th-century portrait by Frans Hals, and how they helped to identify the sitter as Isaac Massa. He's accompanied by one of our restorers, Paul Ackroyd, and Larry Keith, Head of Conservation and Keeper, who help reveal this painting's secrets. 🎨  Find out more about the artist Frans Hals: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/frans-hals 🎨 Book tickets now for 'The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Frans Hals' Open 30 September 2023 – 21 January 2024 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/the-credit-suisse-exhibition-frans-hals Hals was one of the most sought-after painters of his generation. A gifted artist whose deft brushwork was unparalleled, he built his reputation on a new style of portrait – highly unusual in his time – that showed relaxed, lively sitters, often smiling, and even laughing. This exhibition, the first major retrospect...

My Anna portrait hangs in my new house now -- but here's where she resided during my first few months in this beautiful, sometimes brutal city. She reminds me to hold on to my ferocity. I still love staring at her unflinching gaze, depicted by fellow SoCal resident @greggchadwick pic.twitter.com/fOG89TaI7k — Ailsa Chang (@ailsachang) October 19, 2022 Anna May Wong 36"x48"oil on linen painting by Gregg Chadwick Ailsa Chang Collection 

"The Battle of #Stonewall - 1969"  by Sandow Birk 1999 Oil on Canvas, 96" x 120" Collection of the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍⚧️ http://sandowbirk.com/stonewal l 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #OTD in 1969 patrons of the Stonewall Inn in #NYC rebelled against police who entered the bar to harass patrons. Stonewall is considered a galvanizing event in the #LGBTQ #CivilRights movement. The Stonewall is National Historic Landmark. We Are #SantaMonica #History #Pride pic.twitter.com/dZJ3h11gi3 — Santa Monica History Museum (@SMHistoryMuseum) June 28, 2022

I am posting an online readable copy of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel  Maus in response to the ridiculous decision by the McMinn County Board of Education in Tennessee who voted 10-0 to remove the book from the eighth-grade English language arts curriculum saying without realizing the horrible irony that the graphic novel should be replaced, if possible, with another book without content deemed objectionable. The Holocaust is arguably the most objectionable violence ever taken against fellow humans by a despotic regime.  Maus recounts the horrifying experiences of Art Spiegelman's father during the Holocaust, in which he depicts Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. Spiegelman shakes us awake as he depicts the unspeakable through the language of cartoons and graphic novels. Maus is a story of survival and a study of the legacy of trauma. Maus is presented here for readers of all ages. Welcome.  1. The decision of a Tennes...

CIVILIZATIONS The Second Moment of Creation Season 1 Episode 1

“Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar and a spellbinding writer. And what a wealth of lessons are to be learned in these pages.”   —David McCullough,   two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize Walter Isaacson, author of a new biography of Leonardo da Vinci , discusses the Renaissance genius' wildly eclectic notebooks that contained everything from landscape sketches to math equations to 'to do' lists. For more about Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson http://ow.ly/cHwn30d8Yrg Book available for purchase at Amazon and Powell's Also by Walter Isaacson

And now for the big reveal . . . introducing Fragonard’s “Portrait of a Woman with a Book” (simulation)! Our researchers were able to establish that “Portrait of a Woman with a Book” existed as a “complete” painting for at least six months before it was changed into “Young Girl Reading.” The composition once showed a woman with her head turned outwards, looking at the spectator. She wore a large feathered headdress dotted with colored beads, a thinner neck ruffle than in the subsequent painting, and she was illuminated by a frontal light source. An amorphous folding shape in the background behind her was suggested to be a curtain on the basis of precedents in 17th- and 18th-century French portraiture. Read the full story of how we came to this discovery: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/press/2015/fragonard.html This simulation, generated by cross-referencing various imaging techniques, was created by Gallery staffers Becca Goodman and Denis Doorly. Stay tuned as our three d...

by Gregg Chadwick Currently on display at the Thacher Gallery at USF is the powerful exhibition  Hiraeth : The 3.9 Collective Searches for Home .  Abhi Singh on the KQED Arts page  explains the origins of the exhibition: "San Francisco’s Fillmore district was once a vibrant African American community, known as 'the Harlem of the West.'  But in recent decades the Fillmore — like San Francisco as a whole — has witnessed a startling black exodus.  A group of artists known as the 3.9 Art Collective are responding with work that both reminds us of San Francisco’s more diverse  past and expresses their resistance to present trends. Their name comes from the percentage of African Americans that some predict will remain in the city by the time the next census takes place, in 2020.  The Welsh word Hiraeth roughly translates to a longing for a far-off home — one that may not even exist or has been changed by time or idealized by memory....

Fascinating Trove - Yale’s Beinecke Library Buys Vast Collection of Lincoln Photos http:// nyti.ms/1G6d786  

by Gregg Chadwick China's Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor's Legacy at  the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco  photo  by Gregg Chadwick  "I, Sovereign, am the First Emperor; my descendants will call themselves the Second Generation, the Third Generation, and will go on forever after."  - The First Emperor, Qin Shihuang (259-210 BCE)      quoted by the historian Sima Qian (145-90 BCE) China's Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor's Legacy  currently on view at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco until May 27, 2013 provides tantalizing glimpses of an ancient culture and its rulers' attempts to influence cultural and political memory. Over two thousand years ago, Qin Shihuang - the first emperor of China, began constructing a massive mausoleum to ensure, what Li He, the Asian Museum's associate curator of Chinese art, describes as the personal and political "continuation of the fami...

Watching these poignant videos of Eddie Vedder singing with Bruce Springsteen and knowing that Tom Morello was offstage waiting for his next turn, I am called to thank the numerous mentors in my life. As an artist, sometimes it is only the artwork itself that carries its influence into your life. Other times it is the day to day connection with a teacher, colleague, or partner. And for me it has also been the powerful influence of my family and friends. From my blazingly intelligent wife MarySue Heilemann , to my brilliant brother Kent Chadwick , to my supportive parents Bob and Peg Chadwick, to my teachers Sam Amato and Jan Stussy at UCLA and Dale McConathy and Richard Martin at NYU, to my colleagues at the Santa Monica Art Studios , to the always inspiring writer Peter Clothier , to my gallerist in San Francisco Sandra Lee , to my collectors over all these years, to my new friend and colleague in the arts Barbara Drucker , to my agent Gwenda Joyce , to the insightful film and the...

by Gregg Chadwick Paul Revere 1734-1818 The Boston Massacre (The Bloody Massacre) 9 7/8" x 8 1/2" Engraving, hand colored 1770 Boston Museum of Fine Arts "We live in an age where, on every level, it is considered a sin to be wrong. From advertisers to kids on the playground to the world of corporate PR to politicians, the all-too-common wisdom is to defend the indefensible. That's what Palin is doing and that is what her renfields on Wikipedia are doing, and that's sad, because as anyone remotely successful in Silicon Valley can tell you, without owning our mistakes we cannot learn from them and without learning, we cannot win." - Curt Hopkins in Read, Write, Web I love to read history. Scores of books line my studio walls and the past is never far from my thoughts. Museums have been a favorite haunt of mine since childhood. Peering through glass at ambered papers and tattered journals never fails to remind me of the great divide between what happen...

President Barack Obama's Thanksgiving Day proclamation, as released by the White House: What began as a harvest celebration between European settlers and indigenous communities nearly four centuries ago has become our cherished tradition of Thanksgiving. This day's roots are intertwined with those of our nation, and its history traces the American narrative. Today, we recall President George Washington, who proclaimed our first national day of public thanksgiving to be observed "by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God," and President Abraham Lincoln, who established our annual Thanksgiving Day to help mend a fractured nation in the midst of civil war. We also recognize the contributions of Native Americans, who helped the early colonists survive their first harsh winter and continue to strengthen our nation. From our earliest days of independence, and in times of tragedy and triumph, Americans have come together to celebrate Th...