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Santa Ana has two finalists for national museum and library medal
Santa could come early to Santa Ana’s cultural scene this year: the Institute of Museum and Library Services announced Thursday that both the Discovery Science Center and the Santa Public Library are finalists for its 2013 National Medal for...
Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Arts, Libraries, Arts and Culture, Culture
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Near Newtown, U.S. gun ethos on display at museum
Connecticut's familiarity with weapons manufactured for personal use long predates the horrifying recent mass killing in Newtown, one of the worst outbursts of gun violence in American history. About 50 miles northeast of the village, Hartford's Wadsworth...
Tags: Samuel Colt, Arts, U.S. Army, Politics, Arts and Culture
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Art review: 'Kim Schoenstadt: Matrix 160' at the Wadsworth Atheneum Art Museum
Culture MonsterHARTFORD, Conn. -- Like Canaletto or Bernardo Bellotto, Kim Schoenstadt is a view painter. Her work records complex urban landscapes. Unlike her 18th century forebears, however, who lived in a world where visual perception was being elastically... -
Monster Mash: Smithsonian removes controversial Jesus video; Thomas Kinkade faces personal problems
Culture MonsterControversial: The National Portrait Gallery in Washington has removed a video work depicting a crucified Jesus covered in ants that certain politicians had criticized. The video was part of the Smithsonian's "Hide/Seek" exhibition. (The Washington Post)... -
Kim Schoenstadt's many-layered mural at LACE
Culture MonsterHow do you describe a year-long, three-curator, four-phase, multiple-artist collaborative project that involves building layers upon layers of painting on the gallery walls—-and then exposing the core geologic layer in the form of an abstract... -
Art review: 'Imagining the Past in France: 1250-1500' at the J. Paul Getty Museum
Culture MonsterAn extraordinary embellished scroll opens "Imagining the Past in France: 1250-1500," the similarly extraordinary exhibition recently opened at the J. Paul Getty Museum. It introduces one of the strangest, most coercive if successful ideas to have taken... -
Bank of America expands “Museums on Us” promotion
Postcards from FloridaBank of America has announced the 14th season of its national “Museums on Us” program, which now includes 150 of the nation’s finest arts, cultural and educational institutions. Designed to increase access to the arts across the nation, the....
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