Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
By Emily Waldorf Amateur photographer turned psychology professor and therapist, Lisa Jack, took beautiful, edgy images of President Obama when he was just a college freshman at Occidental in 1980. Ms. Jack’s rare photographs will be shown for the first time ever at West Hollywood gallery M + B, in an exhibit called “Barack Obama: […]
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Christie’s To Cut Jobs as Crisis Cuts Auction Sales (Bloomberg) Connoisseurs Take Back Control of Art Market (IHT) High-Rated, Bargain Priced Wines (WSJ) Fiction Reading Increases for Adults (NY Times) Museums Make Deep Cuts in Face of Global Financial Crisis (The Art Newspaper) Museums Look Inward for Their Own Bailouts (NY Times) Grand Jury Hears […]
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By Emily Waldorf Just in time for President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration on January 20th, the National Portrait Gallery, a division of Washington’s Smithsonian Institution, plans to hang a very special addition to their permanent collection. Los Angeles-based street-artist Shepard Fairey is the man behind the iconic red, white and blue collage of Mr. Obama with […]
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