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The Most Contentious Story

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Sadly, Honest Reporting has lowered its expectations enough to claim Christiane Amanpour’s ‘apology’ as a victory.  SUCCESS: Following our campaign for a public apology, @CNN ’s @amanpour says live on air: “I have written to Rabbi Leo Dee to apologize and make sure that he knows that we apologize for any further pain that may have caused him.” See the full story here: https://t.co/ppmGQL5927 pic.twitter.com/PxWeyB0id0 — HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 22, 2023 “I misspoke and said that they were killed in a shootout instead of “a shooting” Sorry, but apologising for accidentally uttering the word “Shoot out ” rather than “Shoot ing ” isn’t fooling anyone. It doesn’t ring true at all. Would any standard English speaking person, let alone a seasoned TV presenter, really say  “killed in a shooting” ?   They’d say “were shot”, surely. Or “shot and killed.”     In any case, the girls’ mother died of her injuries so wasn’t literally killed in a ‘shooting’  or  a

John Marin's Full Moon Over the City, No. 1

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  Schoelkopf Gallery is pleased to share the details on John Marin's  Full Moon Over the City, No. 1,  executed in 1949. Full Moon Over the City, No. 1  belongs to a pair of paintings John Marin produced in 1949 of a New York City night scene. The present work is the first of only two examples of this subject Marin painted that year and likely served as Marin's model in developing the second version of the composition,  Full Moon Over the City, No. 2.  Notably, he used experimental tools such as syringes to create varied textures across the surface of this work. John Marin,  Full Moon Over the City, No. 1 , 1949, Oil on canvas, 22⅛ x 28⅛ inches In the foreground, a dense field of deconstructed shapes evokes urban buildings, while thin calligraphic lines suggest a bridge. Across the river, these same thin lines and rust-colored geometric forms create a visual echo of the emerging New York City skyline. The low-h

Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears,

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Art Institute of  Chicago February 18 through June 12, 2023 Salvador Dalí.   Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach , 1938. © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2022. Photo by Allen Phillips/Wadsworth Atheneum Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears , explores the pivotal decade of the 1930s, when Salvador Dalí emerged as the inventor of his own personal brand of Surrealism. This installation of 50 paintings, sculptures, drawings, collages, along with a rich selection of books and ephemera—on view from  February 18 through June 12, 2023 —considers Dalí’s work in light of two defining, if contradictory, impulses: an immense desire for visibility and the urge to disappear. The Art Institute first exhibited the work of Salvador Dalí in 1933, as the artist was emerging as a one-man artistic phenomenon with his own personal brand of Surrealism. The museum acquired a Dalí painting shortly thereafter, becoming one of the first cultur

Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape

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  Art Institute of Chicago (May 14–September 4, 2023)   Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (October 13, 2023–January 14, 2024) Vincent van Gogh.  Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières) , 1887. The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and the Estate of Roger McCormick. During an intensely creative period between 1882 and 1890, Vincent van Gogh and other notable Post-Impressionists found new inspiration in the changing landscape just outside of Paris. On view at the Art Institute of Chicago  May 14 through September 4, 2023,   Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape  brings together more than 75 paintings and drawings from this formative period by Van Gogh as well as Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Emile Bernard, and Charles Angrand, shedding new light on their boundary-pushing techniques and illuminating the power of place to shape artistic identities.  Long a popular spot for leisure activities, the area along the Se

New Open Thread

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Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art

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The Frist Art Museum   May 26–August 13, 2023 1. Al Aumuller.   Woody Guthrie, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, holding guitar , 1943. Gelatin silver print; 8 1/8 x 8 6/8 in. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C. 2. Michael C. Thorpe. Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 2021. Fabric; 46 x 33 1/4 in. Private collection, courtesy of LaiSun Keane, Boston 3. Lonnie Holley.  The Music Lives after the Instrument Is Destroyed , 1984. Burned musical instruments, artificial flowers, and wire; 33 x 36 x 3 in. Souls Grown Deep Foundation The Frist Art Museum presents  Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art , the first exhibition to explore the instrument’s symbolism in American art from the early nineteenth century to the present. Featuring 125 works of art as well as thirty-five exceptional instruments,  Storied Strings  will be on view in the Ingram Gallery from May 26 through August 13, 2023. The companion photography exhibition  Guitar Town: Pic