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Culture Clicks: Your Weekly Arts News Roundup, Inauguration Edition

20Jan09

ARTINFO’s Guide to Seeing Art in Washington:  Yes We Can:  See Art in D.C. Artnet’s Inaugural Art Guide for Visitors:  Mr. Obama Goes to Washington NY Times‘ Roberta Smith reviews Washington’s The National Gallery of Art NY Times’ interactive feature:  The White House Reimagined NY Times‘ Kathy Horyn covers Michelle Obama’s Sparkling Inaugural Outfit Dominique […]


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Culture Clicks: Your Weekly Arts News Roundup

12Jan09

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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The Image That Inspired Millions of Copies: Original Obama “Hope” Portrait Donated to Washington’s National Portrait Gallery

07Jan09

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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