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Arts -- United States

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Mead Art Museum

The Mead Art Museum helps serve the community of Amherst College by making its 16,000 object collection available to both the academic community and the general public. The Mead collection is quite strong in American and European paintings, along with ancient Assyrian carvings and Russian modern art. On the site's homepage, visitors can view sections that include Collection, Exhibitions, Events,...

https://www.amherst.edu/museums/mead/
Octavio Medellin: Works of Art and Artistic Processes

Octavio Medellin was a celebrated artist who worked with stone, copper, and brass. Born in 1907, he created a number of unique art installations throughout Dallas in the 1950s, notably his mosaic work at Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Catholic Church and the glass ceiling lights in the Mercantile Bank Building. Over the decades, he kept himself busy teaching at the University of North Texas and the...

https://www.smu.edu/Libraries/digitalcollections/med
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Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art

This fine site from the Smithsonian American Art Museum "presents the rich and varied contributions of Latino artists in the United States since the mid-twentieth century.” It's an ambitious undertaking and it is meant to complement an in situ exhibit held at the museum from December 2013 through March 2014. The exhibition presents works in all media by over 70 contemporary artists and visitors...

https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/our-america
PBS: Arts

Recently, PBS redesigned the section of its main homepage dedicated to the arts programming featured on the network. The results are quite impressive and the hope is that this new site will "bring audiences directly into the creative process." The homepage has a Featured Art area that includes a digital remix of Mister Rogers singing, along with craft shows from the gifted Randall Darwall. The...

https://www.pbs.org/explore/arts/
State Arts Agencies 1965-2003: Whose Interests to Serve?

Many commentators on public policy have noticed a marked downturn in publicly-sponsored arts organizations over the past few years; and, in some cases, certain arts agencies have become moribund as a result of decreased funding. The RAND Corporation recently released a 60-page report on this particular phenomenon (commissioned by The Wallace Foundation) and authored by one of their staff members,...

https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG121.html
The National Museum of American Illustration

Founded in 1998 by Judy A. G. Cutler and Laurence S. Cutler, The National Museum of American Illustration is housed at Vernon Court (Newport, RI), a mansion designed 100 years previously by the firm Carrere and Hastings, architects of other notable buildings such as New York Public Library and the Frick Collection. Portions of the six acres of grounds surrounding Vernon Court were originally...

https://americanillustration.org/
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