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Down in the valley, surrounded by windmills, the Guanting Reservoir was finished in 1954. It's the main source of water for the farms nearby and an important water supply for Beijing. In 2006, a study concluded that the soils around the reservoir suffer from a "severe' Cadmium pollution due to human activity and that the towns surrounding the area are a "relatively large concentration hotspots for all heavy metals". The air is heavily polluted.
The front of the Putney General Store is boarded up after recently suffering major fire damage. Putney, Vermont, May 18, 2008.
World Environment Day: "Green Relay" News article | June 5, 2012 Today World Environment Day is celebrated all over the world to raise awareness for environmental issues and to strive for a clean environment. On this occasion, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Tirana participated in the Green Relay by cycling through Tirana, handing over a Green Flag from Embassy to Embassy. . The cyclists started at the United States Embassy, continued to the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and afterwards passed by the Czech, French and Spanish Embassies. The Relay finished at the Ministry of Environment where the Green Flag was handed over to Minister Fatmir Mediu and Deputy Minister Taulant Bino. The Netherlands is known worldwide for its strong environmental policies as well as for promoting cycling. The Green Relay was organized by EcoVolis
As a part of the Environment Day celebrations students of Udgam School participated in a wide range of activities. The day began on a solemn note wherein the ways in which we are harming the environment were taken up alongwith the joint measures that need to be taken to save the planet. The celebration started with a pledge to save the environment in all possible ways. Soon the events began and students joined elocution, poster making, slogan creating, jingle creating, best out of waste and many such activities under the able guidance of their teachers. The children thoroughly enjoyed the activities especially being in a group and working together for a common goal, which is the essence of the school. No wonder even on a school holiday there were so many participants all agog to join in for the cause of the environment amidst some fun.
Guy Pene du Bois - American (1884 - 1958)
Third Avenue El - 1932
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Guy Pène du Bois was an American artist born into a French family. His training began in 1899 under William Merritt Chase. After spending time in France, the artist returned home to New York in 1906 and took a job as a general reporter with the New York American. It was a position that provided the interesting opportunity to observe people from all walks of life. During this early period in his career, Pène du Bois became involved with the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, which organized the Armory Show of 1913. Pène du Bois and his peers, who viewed themselves as a challenge to the conservative art establishment, resigned from the Association. His resignation left Pène du Bois free to establish a gallery career, which he did, and to cultivate the subtle and satirical humor in his work.
Guy Pène du Bois was one of the most stylish artists in early 20th century America. He found his subjects in daily life, painting the people he observed in cities, parks, cafes, cabarets, and at the opera. As an amused spectator of social theater and a gentle satirist, he often portrayed the comical pretensions of a variety of characters that included lawyers, actors, politicians, and gallery-goers. Pène du Bois began his training as a student of William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art and was later under the direction of Robert Henri. Henri profoundly influenced the painter’s early stylistic approach of applying darkened tonalities and broad brushwork to the canvas, as well as Pène du Bois’ life-long interest in subject matter gleaned from “real life”. In 1905, Pène du Bois made his first visit to Paris, where he painted scenes of fashionable people in cafes rendered in the dark tonalities and impasto commonly associated with the Ashcan School.
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American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection: From Edward Hopper to Alma Thomas
Sunday, March 8, 2026 - Sunday, August 2, 2026
"American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection: From Edward Hopper to Alma Thomas" is the first exhibition dedicated to the collection of businessman, philanthropist, and Texas native Charles Butt.
This exhibition presents over 80 rarely seen paintings and works on paper by icons of American modern art, including Edward Hopper, Ellsworth Kelly, Jacob Lawrence, Joan Mitchell, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Alma Thomas. The featured works span from the late 19th century through the 1970s, and will be grouped in seven thematic sections: Breaking Form: Cubism and Its Legacy, Urban Encounters, Intimate Perspectives, Precisionism, The Language of the Sea, Land Progressions, and Edges of Abstraction. The Blanton Museum of Art is one of four exclusive venues in Texas to host this exhibition.
Shared with the public for the first time, Butt’s collection reflects his vision of American creativity, as well as his civic dedication and commitment to education.
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A major private collection of American modern art will go on public display for the first time this spring in Austin. Opening March 8 at the Blanton Museum of Art, “American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection: From Edward Hopper to Alma Thomas” brings together more than 80 paintings and works on paper spanning the late 19th century through the 1970s. Organized by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the exhibition is the first dedicated to the collection of Texas businessman, philanthropist and H-E-B Chairman Charles Butt. It remains on view through Aug. 2 as part of a multicity Texas tour.
The exhibition features works by some of the most significant artists of the era, including Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence, Joan Mitchell and Alma Thomas.
“We are honored to bring this extraordinary collection to Austin,” said Simone Wicha, director of the Blanton Museum of Art. “Charles Butt’s vision as a collector reflects his deep belief in expanding access to art and education—a mission we share at the Blanton. We look forward to sharing these remarkable works, many of which have never been seen outside his private collection.”
The Blanton organizes the exhibition into seven thematic sections tracing key movements and ideas in American modernism. “Breaking Form: Cubism and Its Legacy” examines how artists such as Arthur Dove and Stuart Davis absorbed and reinterpreted Cubist strategies. “Precisionism” focuses on artists including Charles Sheeler and Charles Demuth, who applied geometric clarity to industrial and architectural subjects.
“Urban Encounters” explores the psychological dimensions of city life through works by Hopper, Marsden Hartley and Alice Neel. A smaller section, “Intimate Perspectives,” centers on portraiture and personal relationships, featuring artists such as Bill Traylor, Rufino Tamayo and Milton Avery.
Two sections focus on landscape and environment. “The Language of the Sea” nods to Butt’s Gulf Coast childhood in Corpus Christi, moving from realist seascapes to Thomas Hart Benton’s “Flight of the Thielens.” “Land Progressions” examines changing approaches to the American landscape, including John Marin’s “Weehawken Series,” painted amid industrial growth along New Jersey’s harbor.
The final section, “Edges of Abstraction,” traces the gradual move toward non-objective art across the 20th century. It includes works by female artists such as Mitchell, Blanche Lazzell and Alice Trumbull Mason, who used abstraction to develop new visual languages.
“American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection” premiered at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. After its run in Austin, it will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the McNay Art Museum, remaining exclusively in Texas.
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The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (often referred to as the Blanton or the BMA) at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, storage, administrative offices, classrooms, a print study room, an auditorium, shop, and cafe. The Blanton's permanent collection consists of more than 22,000 works, with significant holdings of modern and contemporary art, Latin American art, Old Master paintings, and prints and drawings from Europe, the United States, and Latin America. In 2024, the Blanton was ranked by the Washington Post as one of the five best college art museums in the U.S., "thanks to its dynamic programs, commitment to research and public-facing engagement."
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The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin is highly rated as a clean,, and beautifully designed, world-class institution, frequently praised for its extensive Latin American, European, and modern collections, particularly Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin. Visitors find it a, manageable, family-friendly, and relaxing experience with engaging, and, occasionally, interactive, installations.
Guests enter the museum, located on the edge of The University of Texas' campus, through a series of archways. As you enter the lobby, the first thing you see is an installation in the two-story atrium: Reflective, acrylic panels in ombre shades of blue cover the walls and staircase to create a submerged-in-water feeling.
The collection is compact but does an excellent job covering numerous genres: early Renaissance paintings, Roman-era pottery, modern works housed in the contemporary gallery, a vast collection of prints, and Native American and Latin American works.
The collection is well-paced and not overwhelming. A small series of sculptures is housed in a round rotunda. Contemporary works are showcased in gleaming white gallery spaces; skylights brighten more traditional, hardwood-floored spaces lined with Italian paintings. There are rotating exhibits, sometimes from big names like Ellsworth Kelly or Andy Warhol, in video, photography, paper, and print.
The Blanton Museum of Art is a teaching museum, so there are always university students in the galleries. And though it's the largest museum in Austin, it's rarely crowded beyond travelers who know and appreciate art.
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A muskrat visits Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Va., on May 17, 2024. At a little more than 1,500 acres, the park conserves forest, meadow and vast wetlands in the largest park operated by the Fairfax County Park Authority. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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A small carpenter bee of the genus Ceratina visits a cut-leaved toothwort plant blooming at Truxton Park in Annapolis, Md., on March 20, 2024. Only reaching 3/8 inches in length, small carpenter bees don't burrow into wood like their larger relatives. Instead they tunnel into dead plant stems to nest, packing pollen balls and for each laying one egg that will overwinter as a grub before emerging as an adult the following spring to forage on a wide range of flowers. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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The Georgia River Network sponsors a week long kayak/canoe trip down a different Georgia watershed each year, educating the 300+ participants about the importance and issues surrounding the Georgia rivers and hosting a cleanup day. Pictured here is Jerry Ellis with the 70+ tires that were collected along with hundreds of pounds of other trash from a 15 miles section of the Oconee River.
A stand of loblolly pine trees that was clear-cut in 1996 and then thinned in 2017 shows a middle stage of forest regeneration on private property with a forest management plan in Dorchester County, Md., on Feb. 15, 2024. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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(FILES) A picture taken on July 20, 2010 shows a release of water for flood prevention at the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, central China's Hubei province, after relentless torrential rains hit Yangtze River areas. China's Three Gorges Dam has caused a host of ills that must be "urgently" addressed, the government has said on May 19 2011, in a rare admission of problems in a project it has long praised as a world wonder. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO
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Photo of a field of conservation farming in Koudiéré village, commune of Tanghin Dassouri.
Conservation Farming, a new agricultural practice to increase the resilience of farmers facing to climate change.
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A restored wetland takes shape on 25 acres of recently retired farmland owned by Delaware Wild Lands in Frankford, Del., on Dec. 4, 2023. Delaware Wild Lands has owned the Hickman Farm property between the Bald Cypress Branch and Pocomoke River since the 1970s, and smoothed out drainage ditches into shallow swales as part of the restoration, which also involved seeding with native perennials. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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