#national medal of arts

[mikespice97]

Selena will be honored with the National Medal of Arts by President Biden at the White House this evening 💜✨

[soupsnakessss]

Mindy & BJ with the kids in the White House on March 21st, 2023.

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Quincy Jones: Celebrating the Legacy of a Musical Icon

Quincy Jones: A Musical Legacy Quincy Jones, a monumental figure in American popular music for over fifty years, passed away on Sunday in California at the age of 91. His publicist, Arnold Robinson, confirmed the news in a statement that did not specify a cause of death, noting that he had died peacefully at his residence in Bel Air. Mr. Jones’s illustrious career began as a talented jazz…

[macmanx]

"I believe that humanity is meant to thrive and flourish, and that doesn't happen without context. And the arts and the humanities? They are our vessel for context." - LeVar Burton

[music-despite-everything]

Happy birthday, Adrienne Rich!

Adrienne Cecile Rich, born May 16, 1929, in Baltimore, Maryland, and died March 27, 2012, in Santa Cruz, California, was an American poet, essayist, and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse." Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum," which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives.

Her first collection of poetry, A Change of World, was selected by renowned poet W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Auden went on to write the introduction to the published volume. She famously declined the National Medal of Arts, protesting the vote by House Speaker Newt Gingrich to end funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, 1963

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You, once a belle in Shreveport, with henna-colored hair, skin like a peach bud, still have your dresses copied from that time, and play a Chopin prelude called by Cortot: "Delicious recollections float like perfume through the memory." Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumor, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life. Nervy, glowering, your daughter wipes the teaspoons, grows another way. 2 Banging the coffee-pot into the sink she hears the angels chiding, and looks out past the raked gardens to the sloppy sky. Only a week since They said: Have no patience. The next time it was: Be insatiable. Then: Save yourself; others you cannot save. Sometimes she's let the tap stream scald her arm, a match burn to her thumbnail, or held her hand above the kettle's snout right in the woolly steam. They are probably angels, since nothing hurts her anymore, except each morning's grit blowing into her eyes.

3 A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes. And Nature, that sprung-lidded, still commodious steamer-trunk of tempora and mores gets stuffed with it all: the mildewed orange-flowers, the female pills, the terrible breasts of Boadicea beneath flat foxes' heads and orchids. Two handsome women, gripped in argument, each proud, acute, subtle, I hear scream across the cut glass and majolica like Furies cornered from their prey: The argument ad feminam, all the old knives that have rusted in my back, I drive in yours, ma semblable, ma soeur! 4 Knowing themselves too well in one another: their gifts no pure fruition, but a thorn, the prick filed sharp against a hint of scorn... Reading while waiting for the iron to heat, writing, My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun-- in that Amherst pantry while the jellies boil and scum, or, more often, iron-eyed and beaked and purposed as a bird, dusting everything on the whatnot every day of life.

5 Dulce ridens, dulce loquens, she shaves her legs until they gleam like petrified mammoth-tusk. 6 When to her lute Corinna sings neither words nor music are her own; only the long hair dipping over her cheek, only the song of silk against her knees and these adjusted in reflections of an eye. Poised, trembling and unsatisfied, before an unlocked door, that cage of cages, tell us, you bird, you tragical machine-- is this fertillisante douleur? Pinned down by love, for you the only natural action, are you edged more keen to prise the secrets of the vault? has Nature shown her household books to you, daughter-in-law, that her sons never saw?

7 "To have in this uncertain world some stay which cannot be undermined, is of the utmost consequence." Thus wrote a woman, partly brave and partly good, who fought with what she partly understood. Few men about her would or could do more, hence she was labeled harpy, shrew and whore. 8 "You all die at fifteen," said Diderot, and turn part legend, part convention. Still, eyes inaccurately dream behind closed windows blankening with steam. Deliciously, all that we might have been, all that we were--fire, tears, wit, taste, martyred ambition-- stirs like the memory of refused adultery the drained and flagging bosom of our middle years. 9 Not that it is done well, but that it is done at all? Yes, think of the odds! or shrug them off forever. This luxury of the precocious child, Time's precious chronic invalid,-- would we, darlings, resign it if we could? Our blight has been our sinecure: mere talent was enough for us-- glitter in fragments and rough drafts. Sigh no more, ladies. Time is male and in his cups drinks to the fair. Bemused by gallantry, we hear our mediocrities over-praised, indolence read as abnegation, slattern thought styled intuition, every lapse forgiven, our crime only to cast too bold a shadow or smash the mold straight off. For that, solitary confinement, tear gas, attrition shelling. Few applicants for that honor. 10 Well, she's long about her coming, who must be more merciless to herself than history. Her mind full to the wind, I see her plunge breasted and glancing through the currents, taking the light upon her at least as beautiful as any boy or helicopter, poised, still coming, her fine blades making the air wince but her cargo no promise then: delivered palpable ours.

[haute-lifestyle-com]

President Biden Honors International Association of Blacks in Dance with National Medal of Arts #janetwalker #hautelifestylecom #theentertainmentzonecom #iabd #dance #ballet #finearts

https://www.haute-lifestyle.com/arts-culture/fine-arts-dance-symphony/6256-international-association-of-blacks-in-dance-receives-national-medal-of-arts-award.html

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Toph as a Goalball player 💪💚

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Ragazze d’Oro

Parigi 11 agosto 2024, grazie Ragazze, siete state meravigliose.

Anna DANESI (capitana)

Alessia ORRO

Caterina BOSETTI

Sarah FAHR

Marina LUBIAN

Miriam SYLLA

Monica “Moki” DE GENNARO

Ilaria SPIRITO

Loveth OMORUY

Gaia GIOVANNINI

Carlotta CAMBI

Ekaterina ANTROPOVA

Paola EGONU

Se nel 1994 mi avessero detto che la Nazionale Femminile di volley avrebbe vinto la medaglia d’oro olimpica prima della Nazionale Maschile, gli avrei riso in faccia.

Il merito di questo successo va naturalmente anche a quel grandissimo allenatore di Julio VELASCO, semplicemente “El Más Grande”.

Grazie Ragazze, siete state meravigliose.

[7pleiades7]

Portrait of a Lady (1855), (detail), by Ángel María Cortellini Hernández (Spanish, 1819–1887), oil on canvas, 226.5 × 141.5 cm, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Bilbao, Spain

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Queen Latifah & Missy Elliott Receive National Medals Of Arts From Joe Biden

  Queen Latifah and Missy Elliott are easily some of the most versatile and forward-thinking female hip-hop stars of the genre. Without them, who knows where that corner of rap would be. Well, POTUS Joe Biden and the United States government certainly recognize their hand in music but also for their general trailblazing abilities. According to AllHipHop, this past Monday, Latifah and Elliott…

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[soupsnakessss]

Mindy Kaling receives the National Medal of Arts from President Joe Biden during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, March 21, 2023.

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President Biden Awards National Medals to Cultural Icons

President Biden Honors Cultural Icons with National Medals President Joe Biden recently celebrated the remarkable contributions of filmmakers, musicians, writers, and various other artists who have significantly impacted American culture. In a prestigious ceremony, he awarded the esteemed National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals to a total of 39 distinguished recipients. The…

[sonnyjohnson]

RIP James Earl Jones an EGOT Winner an Iconic actor and voice of Mufasa and Darth Vader

January 17, 1931-September 9, 2024

"One of America's most distinguished and versatile actors” for his performances on stage and screen. Mr Jones has also been recognized as "one of the greatest actors in American history" He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1985. “He was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1992, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2009 and the Honorary Academy Award in 2011”