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Holi celebrated with traditional zeal and fervour in BikanerRajasthan
Bikaner, Mar 13 The festival of colours, Holi, was today celebrated with full enthusiasm in Bikaner Rajasthan as people smeared each others faces with colours and enthusiastic revellers thronged streets.
das Festival of Lights, mittlerweile eine feste Einrichtung in Berlin. Allerdings ein geteiltes Vergnügen, da sich Berlin mittlerweile in eine riesige Baustelle verwandelt hat, musst du höllisch aufpassen, wo du gehst, eine blutige Nase, ein gebrochenes Bein hast du dir schnell geholt!
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with the Mayor of Naples, Florida Teresa Heitmann and Naples City Manager Gary Young while observing the damaged Naples Pier in Naples, Florida, August 29, 2025. (DHS photo by Tia Dufour)
Auguste Renoir - French, 1841 - 1919
Young Woman Braiding Her Hair, 1876
West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 82
A young woman with peachy skin shaded with ice blue and pale, mint green is shown from the chest up wearing a low-cut, white garment in this vertical portrait painting. The painting is created with blended brushstrokes, giving it a soft, blurred effect. The woman’s body is angled to our left and she looks off in that direction with blue eyes, her head tipped a little toward us. She has a straight nose and full, rosy pink lips. Thick, blond bangs sweep across her forehead, and her hair is partially pulled back. She holds one long lock with her left hand, on our right, in front of her shoulder. One small gold ball earring adorns the ear we can see. Her low-cut, white garment falls off her shoulders and is belted with a blue sash at her waist. The background is made up of a field of royal and turquoise blue behind her head and shoulders, and rust brown behind her body. The artist signed and dated the work with dark paint in the lower left corner: “Renoir.76.”
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
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Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
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Panorama of Bayer decoded (eg, colorized) Curiosity images of Gale Crater's floor seen during the global dust storm (that is to say, not much). Color/processing variant.
For sale signs for subdivided parcels of farmland, like the one pictured here, have become more common throughout Wallowa County due to climbing real estate values.
NRCS photo by Tracy Robillard.
From the Up To SNOW Good opening ceremony, through the fulfillment and delivery of agency wish list items, to wrapping more than 700 gifts at the “It’s A Wrap” Party, COD Cares volunteers brightened the winter season for those in need.
On September 24-25, 2015, the University of Maryland Medical Center hosted the third US edition of the APOTECA user meeting.
One of my beautiful clients, Alyson
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A close up of one of the two giant copper lanterns, or Touro, of the Houzomon gate at Senso-ji in Asakusa.
On April 8, 2022, the McGlothlin Center for the Arts honored the individuals who helped lay the foundations for the arts at Emory & Henry College. What started as courses or programs has grown into the three departments making up the current Division of Visual and Performing Arts at Emory & Henry – art, music, and theatre.
One of the most beautiful castle ruins in the country, founded around 1300 AD by the Gutštejns, who used the castle for some 250 years. It was a catholic bastion in the Hussite wars, and was besieged and seized by them in 1422, but after the war returned into the hands of their rightful owners, who became very wealthy through th e generosity of the king, whom they stood by. The Gutštejns did not live in the castle in the 16th Century (they had many other castles and towns), and one of them sold it (together with the bound lands) in 1549 to another wealthy family, which had no use for the old fort and soon abandoned it. The ruin underwent a complex restoration and conservation some years back, and is a safe and beautiful tourist attraction today.
Just one of many terrific displays at the Boeing Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA. I highly recommend you spend a full day here if you like aircraft.
A mixture of pictures taken on a Nkon D300/60mm lens mounted to CG4 circa 2000-3200iso approx 3-5 seconds. Also with D300 attached to my 150 Newtonian telescope. Polar aligned as accurately as possible and tracked at 4x. Very difficult to focus even using LV, also 2x Barlow is poor quality. Next time I will work on the focus and use another Barlow to see if this improves things. Any suggestions or guidance welcome.
Photo by Anjie Cook
Guardians: Spirits of Protection, an art installation on display in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden in April 2022.
Easton, Md
4/2/2011
Bringin' her along side as they spot their pad and turn tail towards me for landing.
MomenTUm 2025, the Academic Celebration of the Year of Eindhoven University of Technology.
credit: Dekate Mousa, Arne Lubbers
Dr. Michael Watson- Administrator, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), and Matthew Rhoads, Acting Deputy Administrator, Plant Protection and Quarantine, discuss with Dr. Kirk Johnson- Sant Director, National Museum of Natural History, and his team, Washington D.C., June 17, 2025. Every day, experts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) protect U.S. agriculture and natural resources by identifying pests intercepted on incoming shipments at ports of entry or found around the country. To support this critical work, APHIS signed a memorandum of understanding with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to co-locate APHIS entomology and botany experts with other Federal and Smithsonian experts already working at the museum. This move will not only consolidate vital knowledge in one place, but it will also give APHIS experts access to the museum’s resources, including their extensive arthropod collection, which is a critical pest identification tool. (USDA Photo by Christophe Paul)
Representatives from the Idaho Department of Corrections recently toured the Vocational Village at Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility. The six representatives included Deputy Chief of Prisons Amanda Gentry, Wardens Russell Ross and Janell Clement, Captain Tyler Nicodemus, and Education staff members Jennifer Beaman and Michael DiNardo.
We thank MDOC leadership and MTU staff for ensuring the IDOC had an enjoyable and memorable time!