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The Caucus: National Portrait Gallery Gets Obama Poster
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The Washington Note: John Waters on Cy Twombly. . .and Happy Spring
National Portrait Gallery Gets Obama Poster
The Caucus —
... of President-elect Barack Obama, seen in rallies, parties, shop windows and construction sites throughout the 2008 election season, has found a permanent home. The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., announced that it had acquired Mr. Fairey’s work for its collection. ...
Obama's 'Hope' Portrait Headed To Smithsonian
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... at the gallery in December.
Fairey's collage appeared on thousands of stickers, posters and T-shirts across the country. Time magazine recently commissioned Fairey to create a similar image of Obama for its Person of the Year cover.
Fairey's works are also in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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On the Net:
National Portrait Gallery: http://www.npg.si.edu/
Shepard Fairey's Web site: http://obeygiant.com ...
Obama's 'Hope' Portrait Headed To Smithsonian
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... at the gallery in December.
Fairey's collage appeared on thousands of stickers, posters and T-shirts across the country. Time magazine recently commissioned Fairey to create a similar image of Obama for its Person of the Year cover.
Fairey's works are also in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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On the Net:
National Portrait Gallery: http://www.npg.si.edu/
Shepard Fairey's Web site: http://obeygiant.com ...
John Waters on Cy Twombly. . .and Happy Spring
The Washington Note —
The C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, of which I'm a board member, and the National Portrait Gallery are sponsoring an afternoon discussion today with filmmaker John Waters.
Waters will reflect on Cy Twombly's "Letter of Resignation."
I'm going to be there -- and while on my way there (and back) am thinking about Barack Obama's greetings to Iran and Ayatollah Khamenei's response back. I don't want to offer a simple ...
