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Vassar College Class of 2024 Senior Formal, at The Grandview in Poughkeepsie, May 14, 2024
Photo credit: Kelly Marsh/Vassar College
Wightlink Hybrid Diesel Electric / Battery Car Ferry on the approach to Portsmouth, with a Solent Fort on either side, Spitbank (left) and No Man's Land (right).
Serves the Portsmouth-Fishbourne Isle of Wight route.
This Isle of Wight ferry is larger internally than almost all the cross-channel ferries of the 1970s.
IMO 9791028
Built 2018 Cemre, Turkey
8,041 grt
13Nov2024
Students Amy Orr's Fiber Structures class at Moore College of Art and Design created these awesome examples of public yarn art. moby.to/q14j0l
Operation AVRO is a forcewide initiative that delivers a surge of extra resources and specialist officers to a different district or policing priority within Greater Manchester each month.
This month saw the operation take place in the City of Manchester.
The operation targets crimes that members of the public in that district have told us give them the most concern.
Members of the press and key partners, including local representatives, are invited to attend Operation AVRO deployments to see results first-hand and conduct important multi-agency work, such as welfare visits.
More details on AVRO can be found by visiting gmp.police.uk and following us on social media.
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
You can access many of our services online at www.gmp.police.uk
2019 Big Brothers Big Sisters of America National Conference | Charlotte, NC
Photo credit to Rich Taylor www.richtaylorphotography.com/
The old Beijing punk and ska band End of the World (Shi Jie Zhong Zhi) performing live in the Mao Live Club.
The University of Saint Mary held Commencement celebrations on May 7, 2016 - including a brunch for graduates and their families before the ceremony.
On Friday, July 7, 2023, the Virginia Folklife Program honored the eight artist teams in its 2022-23 Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program with a reception and documentary screening at the Library of Virginia.
Pictured is Isha M Renta Lopez of Fredericksburg, who trained with one of the leaders in bomba dance, Margarita Tata Cepeda of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Photo by Nina Wilder/Virginia Humanities
Strand of Oaks @ Rock and Roll Hotel, Washington, DC, on Friday, August 25, 2017.
Summer #Tour 2017 #Setlist:
Taking Acid and Talking to My Brother
Kraut
Radio Kids
Shut In
Heal
JM
On the Hill
Plymouth
Everything
Rest of It
Encore:
Goshen '97
Even on a rainy morning, the return to New York City is a sight to behold. Some nice views of ships, the Statue of Liberty (more tagged elsewhere), passing under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and lighthouses in the harbor. On board the Royal Caribbean Anthem of the Seas for the Seven Night Ladabee & Puerto Plata Cruise (November 6th through 13th, 2022). The cruise embarks from Cape Liberty (Bayone, NJ) with stops at Labadee, Haiti and Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic before heading back to New York City. The itinerary changed after Hurricane Nicole canceled our planned stops.
Memorial Day - The 75th Anniversary of The Battle of Britain on Sunday 12th July 2015 at Capel le Ferne.
On September 11, 1777, the peaceful tranquility of the Chester County countryside was shattered by the sounds of heavy musket and cannon fire at Sandy Hollow Park (now located at South New St and Birmingham Roads in Birmingham Township). With an estimated 26,000 soldiers fighting that day, this was the largest land engagement of the Revolution.
2022 marks 245 years since the Battle. In commemoration, the weekend of Sept 24 and 25 will feature a two-day re-enactment event at Sandy Hollow Heritage Park, Birmingham Township with troops movements following the original path on Thornbury Farm- Thornbury Township. “Brandywine 2022, will be a major historical event in this region having over 1,000 re-enactor soldiers and camp followers” said Randell Spackman- Chair of Brandywine 2022. “ In 2017 we had visitors from 27 states and 4 countries come see the Battle” Sandy Hollow Heritage Park and Thornbury Farm is one site within the large Brandywine Battlefield where significant combat took place. It is not often that a Rev War re-enactment occurs on the same land where its battle occurred. The event strives to make community and national history come alive, allowing people 245 years later to witness firsthand parts of this major Battle that occurred on Sept 11, 1777.
In addition to battle re-enactments, camps of both armies will be open for inspection by the public. Historical interpreters portraying George Washington, Marquis de Lafayette, and Alexander Hamilton will be conversing with visitors. Sutlers will be selling time-appropriate goods. Colonial games for children will be played. There will also be a performance element, including singers from area schools and organizations. Artists and authors will also be taking part. Artist, Adrian Martinez, creates paintings with historical themes and has just completed a painting of Lafayette. Authors Gene Pisasale and Bruce Mowday have both written on local history. Mowday wrote a book the Battle of Brandywine and most recently released the book ‘Lafayette at Brandywine: The Making of an American Hero’.
Ávila Adobe, built in 1818 by Francisco Ávila, oldest standing residence in LA
visiting Los Angeles Plaza Historic District
author: Jan Helebrant
location: Los Angeles, California, United States of America
license CC0 Public Domain Dedication
Cornelius A.SMITH,Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Bahamas
Date: June 26, 2012
Place: Washington, DC
Credit: Maria Patricia Leiva/OAS
The Heraion of Perachora was a sanctuary of the goddess Hera situated in a small cove of the Corinthian gulf
All of us need to go to shops, whether to buy essentials or for some retail therapy.
And nothing can beat going shopping with friends!
The children of Sr. KG were taken to D-Mart by their teachers.
They were very excited as it was a group visit.
Teachers acted as shopping guides while taking the small team of ‘mini shopaholics’ around.
This field trip gave the children an insight into the entire shopping experience.
We just hope that they will not pull their parents along to shops now...
The cornerstone was laid in 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. The Founders built the seven Chapels of the Tongues to commemorate the major immigrant groups that were pouring into the building and the city. The cathedral hosts people of all faiths; i.e., Priests, Rabbis, Monks and Imams share the pulpit.
During the Blessing of the Bicycles, hundreds of cyclists, including bike messengers, wheel into the Great Crossing. Animals, including camels, are blessed at the Feast of St. Francis
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Governor Hogan Hosts the State of the State Reception by Staff Photographers at Government House, 101 State Circle, Annapolis MD 21401
Ambassador of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria to ASEAN, Lahcene Kaid Slimane, presented his Letter of Credence to Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dato Lim Jock Hoi, on 19 May 2022 at the ASEAN Secretariat
Image Credit: ASEAN Secretariat / Kusuma Pandu Wijaya
The capital of the Republic of Cyprus is also its cultural heartbeat.
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.
We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.
Nicosia is the capital and largest city on the island of Cyprus, as well as its main business centre.It is located near the centre of the Mesaoria plain, on the banks of the River Pedieos.
As part of our actions for the annual Planet 21 ritual, La Residence spent a fun Sunday with the kids at Friends of Hue organization. We tutored the kids how to seed, plant and tend plants, repainted football field, lunched and partook in entertainment activities with them.
Carol Channing attributed part of her success on #Broadway to her 1st portrait in the New York Times by Al Hirschfeld. You can see his most famous caricature of Carol (and many others) in person at @hsvmuseumart starting May 31st. #huntsville #huntsvilleal #art #visualart #ihearthsv #drawing #downtownhsv #NYC #caricature #travel #tourism
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The Lackawanna Valley, c. 1856
George Inness
West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 64
The Lackawanna Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania was home to the Lenni-Lenape peoples for centuries before the arrival of Europeans.
The word Lackawanna comes from a Lenape term meaning “stream that forks,” which describes the Lackawanna River. The dark, jagged tree stumps in this image by George Inness reveal that the area, once densely wooded, was cleared to make way for industry. He painted this for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company to advertise a rail network that would link Pennsylvania coal mines with new markets.
Inness shows the train moving across a new bridge and track through a landscape altered by development. In contrast, works by Hudson River School artists celebrate seemingly unspoiled American wilderness.
We look across and down into a valley with a person sitting near a tall tree and a train puffing smoke beyond, all enclosed by a band of mountains in the distance in this horizontal landscape painting. Closest to us, several broken, jagged tree stumps are spaced across the painting’s width. A little distance away and to our left, the person wears a yellow, broad-brimmed hat, red vest, and gray pants. He reclines propped on his left elbow near a walking path beside a tall, slender tree with golden leaves. The green meadow stretching in front of him is dotted with tree stumps cut close to the ground. Beyond the meadow, puffs of white smoke trail behind a long steam locomotive that crosses a bridge spanning a tree-filled ravine, headed to our left. The ravine creates a diagonal line across the canvas, moving subtly away from us to our left. The train has climbed out of the valley, away from a cluster of brick-red buildings. The most prominent structure is a train roundhouse, a large building with a high, domed roof to the right of the tracks. Smoke rises from chimneys on long, warehouse-like buildings, and a steeple and smaller structures suggest a church and homes to our left. Hazy in the distance, a row of mountains lines the horizon, which comes about halfway up the composition. The sky above deepens from pale, shell pink over the mountains to watery, pale blue above. The artist signed the work in tiny letters in the lower left corner: “G. Inness.”
Rather than celebrating nature in the tradition of the Hudson River School, George Inness' Lackawanna Valley seems to commemorate the onset of America's industrial age. While documenting the achievements of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, Inness has also created a topographically convincing view of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The artist took relatively few liberties with his composition, but in compliance with the wishes of his corporate patron, he intentionally exaggerated the prominence of the railroad's yet-to-be-completed roundhouse. His inclusion of numerous tree stumps in the picture's foreground, although accurate, lends an important note of ambiguity to the work.
Whether it is read as an enthusiastic affirmation of technology or as a belated lament for a rapidly vanishing wilderness, this painting exemplifies a crucial philosophical dilemma that confronted many Americans in the 1850s; expansion inevitably necessitated the widespread destruction of unspoiled nature, itself a still-powerful symbol of the nation's greatness. Although it was initially commissioned as an homage to the machine, Inness' Lackawanna Valley nevertheless serves as a poignant pictorial reminder of the ephemeral nature of the American Dream.
More information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I, pages 350-354, which is available as a free PDF.
Born in Newburgh, New York, in 1825, George Inness was raised in New York City and Newark, New Jersey. His early life was disrupted by severe illness, and he had as a result little formal academic or artistic education. In Newark, he studied with the itinerant painter John Jesse Barker, and in New York, probably in 1843, with the French-born landscape painter, Régis François Gignoux. Inness visited Italy in 1850. In 1853 he visited France, where he studied French Barbizon landscape painting, admiring especially the work of the most radical of the Barbizon artists, Théodore Rousseau. This was, in the influence on his style, the most decisive experience of Inness' artistic life. In the early 1860s Inness moved from New York to Medfield, Massachusetts. In 1864, he moved to Eagleswood, New Jersey. At Eagleswood he was introduced to the teaching of Emanuel Swedenborg. It became his religious faith, and determined, too, the increasingly allusive, expressive, and almost mystical character of his later art.
Inness lived in Italy from 1870 to 1874 and in France briefly in 1875, when he returned to America. In 1876 he settled in Montclair, New Jersey. He lived in Montclair for the rest of his life, but traveled widely, often for the sake of his health, to Niagara Falls, Virginia, California, and Tarpon Springs, Florida.
He died on a trip to Scotland in 1894.
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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).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
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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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).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
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.”
www.doaks.org/resources/cultural-philanthropy/national-ga...
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