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International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. March 3-6, 2015, Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo credit O. Abioye/Humidtropics.
The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboration with national partners, has launched a high-potential project in which research will be put into effective use to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa by promoting a range of sustainable intensification and diversification innovations for rice-based systems, while reducing their environmental footprint.
The project titled ‘Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems’ is conducted under the ‘Putting Research into Use for Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture and Resilience (PRUNSAR)’ program co-funded by the European Union (EU) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Scenes from the Inception meeting of 'Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems Project' under PRUNSAR, AfricaRice, M'bé, Côte d'Ivoire, 2-3 July 2019
Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice
The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboration with national partners, has launched a high-potential project in which research will be put into effective use to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa by promoting a range of sustainable intensification and diversification innovations for rice-based systems, while reducing their environmental footprint.
The project titled ‘Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems’ is conducted under the ‘Putting Research into Use for Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture and Resilience (PRUNSAR)’ program co-funded by the European Union (EU) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Scenes from the Inception meeting of 'Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems Project' under PRUNSAR, AfricaRice, M'bé, Côte d'Ivoire, 2-3 July 2019
Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice
International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. March 3-6, 2015, Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo credit O. Abioye/Humidtropics.
The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboration with national partners, has launched a high-potential project in which research will be put into effective use to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa by promoting a range of sustainable intensification and diversification innovations for rice-based systems, while reducing their environmental footprint.
The project titled ‘Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems’ is conducted under the ‘Putting Research into Use for Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture and Resilience (PRUNSAR)’ program co-funded by the European Union (EU) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Scenes from the Inception meeting of 'Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems Project' under PRUNSAR, AfricaRice, M'bé, Côte d'Ivoire, 2-3 July 2019
Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice
International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. March 3-6, 2015, Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo credit O. Abioye/Humidtropics.
International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. March 3-6, 2015, Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo credit O. Abioye/Humidtropics.
International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. March 3-6, 2015, Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo credit O. Abioye/Humidtropics.
International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. March 3-6, 2015, Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo credit O. Abioye/Humidtropics.
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The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboration with national partners, has launched a high-potential project in which research will be put into effective use to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa by promoting a range of sustainable intensification and diversification innovations for rice-based systems, while reducing their environmental footprint.
The project titled ‘Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems’ is conducted under the ‘Putting Research into Use for Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture and Resilience (PRUNSAR)’ program co-funded by the European Union (EU) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Scenes from the Inception meeting of 'Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems Project' under PRUNSAR, AfricaRice, M'bé, Côte d'Ivoire, 2-3 July 2019
Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice
The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboration with national partners, has launched a high-potential project in which research will be put into effective use to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa by promoting a range of sustainable intensification and diversification innovations for rice-based systems, while reducing their environmental footprint.
The project titled ‘Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems’ is conducted under the ‘Putting Research into Use for Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture and Resilience (PRUNSAR)’ program co-funded by the European Union (EU) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Scenes from the Inception meeting of 'Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems Project' under PRUNSAR, AfricaRice, M'bé, Côte d'Ivoire, 2-3 July 2019
Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice
'The crushing volume and harshness of the performance is intensified throughout by the reverberant gallery space, which creates a swirling, almost psychedelic effect as Fusinato's sounds bounce from wall to wall.'
'Spectral arrows (Sydney)', LP album notes, Planam Records, Italy, 2013
As part of his exhibition 'Constellations', Marco Fusinato presented 'Spectral arrows', an improvised long-duration performance for guitar and electronics. In the performance, Fusinato plays with his back to the audience, filling the gallery with ascending feedback, harsh static and atonal collisions.
'Spectral arrows', described as a monumental eight-hour aural sculpture, was presented first at the Glasgow International in 2012 and most recently at Dark Mofo, Hobart, in 2014. In September this year, Marco Fusinato will perform the work as part of the 56th Venice Biennale. His new installation From the horde to the bee is part of Okwui Enwezor’s central Venice Biennale exhibition, 'All the world’s futures'.
'Spectral arrows' was presented as part of the Singapore Night Festival 2015.
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recent illness has provided an opportunity for the Venezuelan oligarchy working in concert with imperial.
powers to try and destabilize the country, but the deepening of democracy since 1998 has intensified the.
political participation of the Venezuelan people and serves as a powerful deterrent against destabilisation..
For instance, communities are now empowered to debate and allocate budgets according to their local social.
needs in over 30,000 communal councils..
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18. Bolivia has emerged as another key pillar of the ongoing leftward shift in Latin America. President.
Evo Morales, who first won office in December 2005 with 54% vote share and retained office in 2009 with.
64% vote after the country adopted a new constitution through referendum, is only the second person of.
indigenous origin to become a President in Latin America. The indigenous people's movement continues to.
play a big role in Bolivia..
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19. Confirming and strengthening the continuing broad-based popular momentum for the Left in Latin.
America, Ecuador's incumbent President Rafael Correa has secured a thumping victory in the Presidential.
elections held in February this year. Dedicating his victory to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez who has.
returned to Venezuela after weeks of cancer treatment in Cuba, Correa has called for still greater unity of.
Latin America to counter a `very cruel neo-liberal globalisation'. Apart from achieving a significant reduction.
in poverty through increased social spending and defaulting on millions of dollars of foreign debt declared.
illegitimate, the Correa government has taken a bold stand against US intervention as reflected in its.
decision to refuse permission to US forces to use an airbase in Ecuador, expel American diplomats for.
meddling in Ecuador's internal affairs and offer asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange who remains at.
the Ecuadorean embassy in London..
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20. The ongoing Leftward shift in Latin America is rooted in a long legacy of anti-imperialist and.
socialist mobilisation. However, the threat from US imperialism has not abated. The military coup in.
Honduras in June 2009 against President Manuel Zelaya could not have taken place without the overt or.
covert support of the US. Zelaya was implementing some pro-people policies like raising the minimum wage.
and affiliating with ALBA. The people of Latin America are however quite vigilant. Trade unions, peasant.
organizations, women's organizations, and social movements of Afro-Latin Americans and indigenous.
people are organizing and mobilizing against their oligarchies and imperialism. In spite of the possibility of.
setback in individual countries the overall assertion of the Latin American people and the Left continues to.
gather momentum..
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21. Parts of Europe too have been witnessing a resurgence of youth movement and working class.
struggles lending strength to a potential revival of the Left. This is happening against the backdrop of a.
severe Eurozone crisis (17 countries of the European Union use Euro as their common currency while 10 EU.
members still have their own currencies) and governments enforcing harsh austerity measures even as the.
Eurozone experiences a youth unemployment rate of 22% (more than 30% in Italy, Portugal and Slovakia.
and more than 50% in Greece and Spain). The best performance of the European Left in recent elections has.
been witnessed in Greece where Syriza (Coalition of the Radical Left, a coalition of more than a dozen Left.
groups and trends now registered as a party) came close to emerging as the leading party - its vote share.
increasing from 3.3% in 2004 (the first election it faced) to 16.8% in May 2012 and 26.9% in June 2012..
Currently it is the main opposition party with 71 members in the 300-member Greek parliament. The PCF,.
the French Communist Party too put up a notable performance in the 2012 President election polling.
11.10% votes, the highest since 1981. Large sections of the Left in Europe have also come together to.
operate as the Party of the European Left and it has already held three Congresses since its foundation in.
2004..
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22. Historically, periods of severe economic crisis have however also been witness to the rise of the.
extreme right - and the European Left does have to confront the racist anti-immigrant and anti-Islamist.
politics of the radical right. The elections in Greece for example also witnessed the rise of the Golden Dawn,.
a neo-Nazi outfit which won 7% vote and 18 seats in the Greek parliament..
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23. In Africa, the Left had secured a crucial victory with the overcoming of the apartheid regime in.
South Africa. The South African Communist Party (SACP) is in a tripartite alliance with the ruling African.
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The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboration with national partners, has launched a high-potential project in which research will be put into effective use to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa by promoting a range of sustainable intensification and diversification innovations for rice-based systems, while reducing their environmental footprint.
The project titled ‘Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems’ is conducted under the ‘Putting Research into Use for Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture and Resilience (PRUNSAR)’ program co-funded by the European Union (EU) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Scenes from the Inception meeting of 'Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems Project' under PRUNSAR, AfricaRice, M'bé, Côte d'Ivoire, 2-3 July 2019
Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice
International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. March 3-6, 2015, Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo credit O. Abioye/Humidtropics.
International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. March 3-6, 2015, Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo credit O. Abioye/Humidtropics.
International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. March 3-6, 2015, Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo credit O. Abioye/Humidtropics.
International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. March 3-6, 2015, Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo credit O. Abioye/Humidtropics.
The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboration with national partners, has launched a high-potential project in which research will be put into effective use to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa by promoting a range of sustainable intensification and diversification innovations for rice-based systems, while reducing their environmental footprint.
The project titled ‘Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems’ is conducted under the ‘Putting Research into Use for Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture and Resilience (PRUNSAR)’ program co-funded by the European Union (EU) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Scenes from the Inception meeting of 'Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems Project' under PRUNSAR, AfricaRice, M'bé, Côte d'Ivoire, 2-3 July 2019
Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice
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The combination of intensifying cyclone events and ongoing and accelerating sea level rise is expected to have dire impacts on Tuvalu.
The Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP) is funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), with additional contributions from Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and co-financing from the Government of Tuvalu. The project is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as an Accredited Entity for GCF funding in partnership with the Government of Tuvalu and Hall Contracting, in close consultation with relevant communities through an inclusive socially and environmentally aware approach. The project is a first-of-its-kind initiative, aimed at improving the coastal resilience of three of Tuvalu’s nine atolls through innovative, context-specific vertical adaptation measures.
Learn more at TCAP.tv
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The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboration with national partners, has launched a high-potential project in which research will be put into effective use to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa by promoting a range of sustainable intensification and diversification innovations for rice-based systems, while reducing their environmental footprint.
The project titled ‘Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems’ is conducted under the ‘Putting Research into Use for Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture and Resilience (PRUNSAR)’ program co-funded by the European Union (EU) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Scenes from the Inception meeting of 'Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems Project' under PRUNSAR, AfricaRice, M'bé, Côte d'Ivoire, 2-3 July 2019
Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice
The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboration with national partners, has launched a high-potential project in which research will be put into effective use to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa by promoting a range of sustainable intensification and diversification innovations for rice-based systems, while reducing their environmental footprint.
The project titled ‘Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems’ is conducted under the ‘Putting Research into Use for Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture and Resilience (PRUNSAR)’ program co-funded by the European Union (EU) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Scenes from the Inception meeting of 'Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems Project' under PRUNSAR, AfricaRice, M'bé, Côte d'Ivoire, 2-3 July 2019
Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice
The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboration with national partners, has launched a high-potential project in which research will be put into effective use to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa by promoting a range of sustainable intensification and diversification innovations for rice-based systems, while reducing their environmental footprint.
The project titled ‘Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems’ is conducted under the ‘Putting Research into Use for Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture and Resilience (PRUNSAR)’ program co-funded by the European Union (EU) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Scenes from the Inception meeting of 'Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems Project' under PRUNSAR, AfricaRice, M'bé, Côte d'Ivoire, 2-3 July 2019
Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice
Ralston Crawford, Born St. Catharines, ON, Canada 1906-
died Houston, TX 1978
Buffalo Grain Elevators, 1937, oil on canvas, 40 1⁄4 x 50 1⁄4 in.
Beginning in the 1860s, vast reserves of Midwestern grain were shipped across the Great Lakes to Buffalo, where as many as 280 million bushels a year were stored and milled. Crawford intensified the monumental scale and severe beauty of the storehouses by simplifying what he saw into abstract forms. The solid blue tone of the sky becomes a shape all its own, interlocking with the silhouettes of roofs and elevators.
But this painting is more than an artist's exercise. Crawford grew up in the city and shipped aboard Great Lakes freighters with his father. In the late 1930s, Buffalo began to lose its central position in the grain business when Ontario's Welland Canal opened, providing cheaper freight routes to the East Coast. Crawford used chilly colors and raking light to suggest an industrial complex frozen in silence, signaling the end of an era in his hometown.
Born 25 September 1906, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. 1926–27, sailed on tramp steamers to Caribbean, Central America, California, New Orleans. Studied at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles. Worked in Walt Disney's studio. 1927–30, studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pa. 1932–33, to Europe, where he studied in Paris at Académie Colorossi and Académie Scandinave; toured Spain, Italy, Balearic Islands. 1933, studied at Columbia University.
1934, first one-man show, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore. Taught at Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1940–41 and 1949; Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1942; Brooklyn Museum School, 1948–49. 1950–68, made many trips to New Orleans to photograph musical life of the city. 1952–57, taught at New School for Social Research, New York. 1953, retrospective exhibition, University of Alabama; visiting artist, University of Michigan.
1954–55, traveled in France and Spain. 1958, retrospective exhibition, Milwaukee Art Center; visiting artist, University of Colorado. Exhibited lithographs in London. Taught at Hofstra College, 1960–62. Photographic research consultant, Tulane University, Archive of New Orleans Jazz, 1961. 1961–62, retrospective exhibition of lithographs, University of Kentucky. 1963–73, traveled widely in Europe, Caribbean, and U.S. Died 27 April 1978, Houston, Tex.
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum is the home to one of the most significant and most inclusive collections of American art in the world. Its artworks reveal America’s rich artistic and cultural history from the colonial period to today. The museum’s main building is located at Eighth and G streets N.W., above the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metrorail station. Admission is free.
The museum has been a leader in identifying and collecting significant aspects of American visual culture, including photography, modern folk and self-taught art, African American art, Latino art, and video games. The museum has the largest collection of New Deal art and exceptional collections of contemporary craft, American impressionist paintings and masterpieces from the Gilded Age. In recent years, the museum has focused on strengthening its contemporary art collection, and in particular media arts, through acquisitions, awards, curatorial appointments, endowments, and by commissioning new artworks.
Explore the sweep of the American imagination across four centuries at the nation's flagship museum for American art and craft. Dive into inspiring artworks, the reimagined collection, and an array of special exhibitions including Glenn Kaino: Bridge. Experience our offerings both online and in person at our two locations, including national educational programs, innovative research, video interviews with artists, virtual artist studio tours, lectures, audio guides, and more. Admission is always free.
Since 1968, the National Portrait Gallery has been housed in the former Patent Office building, a structure designed by Robert Mills in the neoclassical style and built between 1836-1867. This historic building, which is the third oldest government building in the city, is shared with another Smithsonian museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The building's marble and granite porticos are inspired by those of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.
An undulating steel and glass canopy wows visitors who enter the Kogod Courtyard. Inside you’ll find diners from the museum’s café, tourists soaking their weary feet in the shallow fountain running across the space, and students taking advantage of free Wi-Fi in the light and airy setting. The modern roof seals the center of the old Patent Office Building, currently shared by the National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum. Architect Norman Foster designed the roof to have minimal impact on the building by creating a support system that prevents direct contact and weight placement on it. Unlike most of the other Smithsonian Museums located on the Mall, this gem is found in the busy Penn Quarter of downtown D.C. It is a favorite place to bring visitors, not only for the impressive courtyard space, but also for the preserved architecture of the patent offices on the top floor. Check the Smithsonian’s website for special courtyard workshops, concerts, or events. The museum is right near the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro on the green, yellow, and red lines.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum showcases rotating exhibits, which have previously exposed visitors to work created in response to the Vietnam War, glasswork, native women artists and more. The Smithsonian American Art Museum also operates a separate branch, the Renwick Gallery, devoted to contemporary craft and decorative arts.
The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboration with national partners, has launched a high-potential project in which research will be put into effective use to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Africa by promoting a range of sustainable intensification and diversification innovations for rice-based systems, while reducing their environmental footprint.
The project titled ‘Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems’ is conducted under the ‘Putting Research into Use for Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture and Resilience (PRUNSAR)’ program co-funded by the European Union (EU) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Scenes from the Inception meeting of 'Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems Project' under PRUNSAR, AfricaRice, M'bé, Côte d'Ivoire, 2-3 July 2019
Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice
International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. March 3-6, 2015, Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo credit O. Abioye/Humidtropics.
International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. March 3-6, 2015, Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo credit O. Abioye/Humidtropics.
International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. March 3-6, 2015, Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo credit O. Abioye/Humidtropics.
International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. March 3-6, 2015, Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo credit O. Abioye/Humidtropics.
Ralston Crawford, Born St. Catharines, ON, Canada 1906-
died Houston, TX 1978
Buffalo Grain Elevators, 1937, oil on canvas, 40 1⁄4 x 50 1⁄4 in.
Beginning in the 1860s, vast reserves of Midwestern grain were shipped across the Great Lakes to Buffalo, where as many as 280 million bushels a year were stored and milled. Crawford intensified the monumental scale and severe beauty of the storehouses by simplifying what he saw into abstract forms. The solid blue tone of the sky becomes a shape all its own, interlocking with the silhouettes of roofs and elevators.
But this painting is more than an artist's exercise. Crawford grew up in the city and shipped aboard Great Lakes freighters with his father. In the late 1930s, Buffalo began to lose its central position in the grain business when Ontario's Welland Canal opened, providing cheaper freight routes to the East Coast. Crawford used chilly colors and raking light to suggest an industrial complex frozen in silence, signaling the end of an era in his hometown.
Born 25 September 1906, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. 1926–27, sailed on tramp steamers to Caribbean, Central America, California, New Orleans. Studied at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles. Worked in Walt Disney's studio. 1927–30, studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pa. 1932–33, to Europe, where he studied in Paris at Académie Colorossi and Académie Scandinave; toured Spain, Italy, Balearic Islands. 1933, studied at Columbia University.
1934, first one-man show, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore. Taught at Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1940–41 and 1949; Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1942; Brooklyn Museum School, 1948–49. 1950–68, made many trips to New Orleans to photograph musical life of the city. 1952–57, taught at New School for Social Research, New York. 1953, retrospective exhibition, University of Alabama; visiting artist, University of Michigan.
1954–55, traveled in France and Spain. 1958, retrospective exhibition, Milwaukee Art Center; visiting artist, University of Colorado. Exhibited lithographs in London. Taught at Hofstra College, 1960–62. Photographic research consultant, Tulane University, Archive of New Orleans Jazz, 1961. 1961–62, retrospective exhibition of lithographs, University of Kentucky. 1963–73, traveled widely in Europe, Caribbean, and U.S. Died 27 April 1978, Houston, Tex.
________________________________
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is the home to one of the most significant and most inclusive collections of American art in the world. Its artworks reveal America’s rich artistic and cultural history from the colonial period to today. The museum’s main building is located at Eighth and G streets N.W., above the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metrorail station. Admission is free.
The museum has been a leader in identifying and collecting significant aspects of American visual culture, including photography, modern folk and self-taught art, African American art, Latino art, and video games. The museum has the largest collection of New Deal art and exceptional collections of contemporary craft, American impressionist paintings and masterpieces from the Gilded Age. In recent years, the museum has focused on strengthening its contemporary art collection, and in particular media arts, through acquisitions, awards, curatorial appointments, endowments, and by commissioning new artworks.
Explore the sweep of the American imagination across four centuries at the nation's flagship museum for American art and craft. Dive into inspiring artworks, the reimagined collection, and an array of special exhibitions including Glenn Kaino: Bridge. Experience our offerings both online and in person at our two locations, including national educational programs, innovative research, video interviews with artists, virtual artist studio tours, lectures, audio guides, and more. Admission is always free.
Since 1968, the National Portrait Gallery has been housed in the former Patent Office building, a structure designed by Robert Mills in the neoclassical style and built between 1836-1867. This historic building, which is the third oldest government building in the city, is shared with another Smithsonian museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The building's marble and granite porticos are inspired by those of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.
An undulating steel and glass canopy wows visitors who enter the Kogod Courtyard. Inside you’ll find diners from the museum’s café, tourists soaking their weary feet in the shallow fountain running across the space, and students taking advantage of free Wi-Fi in the light and airy setting. The modern roof seals the center of the old Patent Office Building, currently shared by the National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum. Architect Norman Foster designed the roof to have minimal impact on the building by creating a support system that prevents direct contact and weight placement on it. Unlike most of the other Smithsonian Museums located on the Mall, this gem is found in the busy Penn Quarter of downtown D.C. It is a favorite place to bring visitors, not only for the impressive courtyard space, but also for the preserved architecture of the patent offices on the top floor. Check the Smithsonian’s website for special courtyard workshops, concerts, or events. The museum is right near the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro on the green, yellow, and red lines.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum showcases rotating exhibits, which have previously exposed visitors to work created in response to the Vietnam War, glasswork, native women artists and more. The Smithsonian American Art Museum also operates a separate branch, the Renwick Gallery, devoted to contemporary craft and decorative arts.
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of unity, turned out at last night's UGBM to defend the JNUSU with the Supreme Court order that JNU must dump the JNUSU Constitution. In one voice, JNU students refused to allow the Constitution and replace it with the Lyngdoh JNUSU Constitution and JNU's democratic and autonomous .
recommendations. .
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game. Let us take a quick look at the changing colours of the Remember that the Y4E has always been frustrated by .
and therefore opposed to JNU's political culture and chameleon Y4E: democratic institutions. Its Councillors never attended JNUSU Show of unity Council meetings, never convened a single GBM in the On the eve of the Supreme Court heanng, in the all-Schools which elected them, and never took up a single issue organization meeting, the Y4E stated that they were in of common students, surviving only through casteist frenzy } agreement with the united position of all organizations of and divisive campa1gn openly supported and backed by resisting the attempt to replace JNUSU Constitution w1th the sections of the JNU establishment. Lyngdoh recommendations. Y4E has cheated the JNU students' movement and tried to Backstabbing and Ambush in Court sabotage a crucial struggle to defend JNU's democratic .
identity, ethos and culture. We are confident that JNU students .
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the imposition of Lyngdoh Committee recommendations The JNU students have expressed their determination to .
defeat the attempt to do away w1th JNU's uniquely democratic Denial election process, and to build an all-out struggle to defend When confronted by their shameful role in Court, the Y4E the JNUSU Constitution. AISA calls upon the entire JNU representatives claimed in the all organization meeting on Community to stand by the Struggle Committee formed October 24 that Lahoty was not their Advocate at all. through the UGBM mandate, and to intensify the movement .
Y4E's Attack on JNU Ethos to safeguard JNU's campus democracy from the assault it is facing. .
However, the Y4E posters and leaflets openly declared 1-u,~;-:r;-:.-~~---;.---~-:-:-~:-::-:::-:-:__..,----~ that the JNUSU of the past year was "illegal"· clearly revealing ~ISA's Bihar Bandh against MNS-Shiv Sena Fascism its position that any Union elected in line with the JNUSU Yesterday,AISA held a successful s1har Bandh in protest against the Constitution rather than Lyngdoh recommendations was MNS-Sh1v Sena fasc1st violence against North Indian students. AISA had .
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In last night's UGBM, two sen1or students who were they too would hold a Bihar Bandh on the same day. However, the latter present in the Courtroom during the proceedings thoroughly backed out at the last minute, as ordered by their parent parties. AI SA alone exposed the Y4E's actual role, by reading out from the Implemented the Bandh, and hundreds of AISA students bore the brunt of .
Supreme. Court's own record of proceedings, and pointing state repression: they were lathicharged in Patna, and arrested in out that an entire team of ten advocated including Mr.Lahoty Darbhanga, Motihan and Bhagalpur. Protesting students continue to face were named as representin Youth for E ualit criminal cases against them.AI SA demands dropping of the cases against .
Excerpt from SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF the protestors, and ban on the MNS and Shiv Sena. PROCEEDINGS, T EM N0.5 4, COUR T N0.3, SEC T I 0 N Real Face Of I_he Saffron Terrorists XIA, lA 121n Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (Civil) The evidence of the Sangh Parivar's bomb plot in Malegaon and No(s).2 4 29 512004, Date·24110/2008: Modasa grows darker and more dangerous every day.Two retiredArmy "For Youth for equality: Mr. M.L. Lalwty, adv.; Mr. R. Sathtsh. officersare suspected to be linked to the plot. They are associated .
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Ajit Kumar Sinha, Adv; Mr. M.K. Michael, Adv; Mr. M.K o. and former ABVP office bearer Pragya Singh Thakurwho is said:. Namboodiri, Adv; Mr. VG. Pra asam,Adv" be a main brain behind the blasts has appeared In public -... Followed by Confession in the form of Brazen times with BJP President Rajnath Singh and other s_::: -BG-'-'-Defiance Should not BJP leaders be arrested for hobnobbing with te·c___ ex-Army men become involved in terrorist plots against e Once exposed, Youth for Equality's shameless lies were can be more dangerous? We demand that the role of s finally silenced. Then, a JNUSU Councillor from YFE m his militar schoolsandtheSan hnetworkinallterroros ad Sucheta De, Gen Se Awadhesh, President, AlSA, JNU .
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Scenes from the Inception meeting of 'Sustainable and Diversified Rice-based Farming Systems Project' under PRUNSAR, AfricaRice, M'bé, Côte d'Ivoire, 2-3 July 2019
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