#national arts foundation

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we'll wait for time to turn

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Poster for Rauschenberg Retrospective, (offset lithograph), National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., 1976 [© Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, NY]

Bibl.: Marc Gundel, Rauschenberg. Posters, With a contribution by Jürgen Döring, Prestel Verlag, München, London, New York, NY, 2001

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s Passionate Defense of Art over Profits, National Book Foundations Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014

“We live under capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

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You sort of think of the Tragically Hip as the rock band with the bar-blues hick fanbase, and you might snivel about it until you realise The Stranger and the Downie-Wenjack Foundation are still slowly defrosting Canadians' attitudes towards reconciliation, reparations and the treatment of Indigenous people in general. Perhaps it even stretches out to all the complex lives and stories painted of those people whose lives many wouldn't have started sympathetic towards. Gord Downie, man of the people, amplifier of the voices of the unheard and unusual, the man that you were.

The Gords, Rob and Paul, may people keep listening and learning from the voices you amplified.

(Full CBC special on it here)

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So proud!

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b-but destroying the anomalies will only-

I've been playing too much SCP 5K...

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Happy Birthday Kafka Hibino!!

(and me lol)

Its your favorite shitposter's birthday todayyy

If you are feeling kind and would like to get me a birthday gift, I have links to some charities you can donate to :>

Palestine Children's Relief Fund

Friends of the Everglades

Stonewall Community Foundation

National Audubon Society

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Like a long lost sparkledog with passion in its colors blinding

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Highway (1951), by Saul Steinberg

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Sexypink - RITES, RITUALS, MEMORIES AND MORE CROP OVER VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION OPENS THURSDAY. Barbados Today News. “The first event produced by the National Cultural Foundation (NCF) for Crop Over 2023 starts next week and runs throughout the Season of Emancipation.On Africa Day, Thursday, May 25, 2023, the NCF will host the official opening of the Central Bank of Barbados Crop Over Visual Arts Exhibition entitled We Came on Merchant Ships.The following day, Friday, May 26, the three-part exhibition will then be open for public viewing at the Queen’s Park Gallery until Thursday, June 22.The series of exhibitions seek to visually explore the concept of the necessity of trade for growth and expansion and all the consequences, rewards and challenges that come from migration, free, forced or otherwise.The first exhibition, We Came on Merchant Ships – Movement, examines movement in its many forms. The works of 29 artists will be on show. 

The exhibition captures the reason people move, modalities for movement and the various cultural manifestations of migration - forced and free. Special emphasis will be placed on the transatlantic slave trade.NCF’s Curator Oneka Small admits that although the topic is a tough one to approach, the Foundation was excited to showcase such a serious yet sensitive project using art. “Curating this one has not been an easy task simply because it is a painful period in our history, especially the show, which focuses a lot on the transatlantic slave trade. So we are very excited though to be presenting the information through multimedia presentations such as photography,” she said.She added: “We have digital work. We also have sculptures. 

Some amazing pieces by amazing artists. We want to keep them under wraps so that you come excited on Friday, May 26, to see the show. It is a mixed medium, multimedia, all genre show. We are very happy to be presenting such a show this year.”Small is curating the exhibition alongside colleague NCF’s Visual Arts Officer Rodney Ifill, who commended the artists for stepping up and exploring the topic. “We have 29 wonderful artists. We have so many artists on the island and I am glad that they responded to the theme because the whole idea of introducing themes like this is to get people to think, to research and then you become better for it. At the end of the day, you are now collecting a pool of knowledge that you would have gone away with in terms of your own personal interrogation and presenting your sensibility to the public,” he noted.The second exhibition, We Came on Merchant Ships – Memories and Identity, which runs from Friday, June 30, to Thursday, July 27, the artists seek to interrogate the intangible aspects of trade. 

How do memories express themselves in displaced people? How is identity maintained, retained, or assimilated within the new land of settlement? The third exhibition, We Came of Merchant Ships – Rites, Ritual and Religion running from Friday, August 4 to Thursday, August 31 will see artists visually explore the continuation of rites, rituals and religion from the lands from which the present people of Barbados originated, for example, the Spiritual Baptist, Christianity and the rise of traditional African religions such as the practice of Yoruba, Hindu and other faiths.For more information on details relating to the Exhibition, please contact Oneka Small via email at oneka-small@ncf.bb and Rodney Ifill Visual Arts Officer via email at rodney-ifill@ncf. bb (PR)”

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Hashemi Shamali Open Air Museum Amman Jordan

Touring the Hashemi Shamali Open Air Museum was fascinating on many levels. The east Amman neighborhood that was military housing in the 1970s now exhibits 28 murals painted by artists to give the urban landscape more interest and color. The neighborhood is home to a community of Palestinian, Syrian, Armenian, and Iraqi refugees, and decidedly different than other areas of Amman I’ve explored.…

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On February 27, 1860 Abraham Lincoln made a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.   It is now referred to as the Cooper Union Address.

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meanwhile, construction workers and industrial painters who literally do exactly all that every day without celebration:

abstract and modern art haters are sooo snobby like klein literally Created an entirely new pigment and then painted a canvas in a way where the brush strokes wouldn't be visible. the insinuation that people with no skill could reproduce that is so annoying because unless you are skilled at color mixing and painting you definitely couldn’t lmao

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Lakes International Comic Art Festival and partners continue work to promote comics as a valuable literacy tool

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is continuing to develop its strategy to champion comics part in promoting literacy, buoyed by its own research and others

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So proud of him!

Shout out to @whatsgoingonovahere for the find!

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