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HMCS Regina moves into position to conduct a Replenishment at Sea (RAS) with USNS Henry J. Kaiser and USS Chafee ahead of Exercise RIMPAC 2020, August 16, 2020.
Please credit: MS Dan Bard, Canadian Forces Combat Camera, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
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AMANITA
Short film/ Kurzfilm, D 2004
ca. 10' min., 16 mm
Blocking rehearsal: huntsman and pixie (Angela M.) standing on a platform.
Stellprobe (Nachtdreh): Jäger und Elfe (Angela M.) auf der Drehscheibe.
photo by barbarella
fantastic navigation system! It uses Global Positioning Satellites and DVD to plot your course and provide instructions. A brightly lit touch-screen monitor displays a map or an alpine-type route instruction. The verbal instructions can help you avoid missing an exit and the map can help you figure out your location.
Arsenal's location coincides with the position of the defensive wall of Riga Castle and its rear facade embraces the Maiden tower's bottom part. The former Riga customs warehouse was built on the site of the demolished Swedish Arsenal, from which it takes its name. The huge 135 m long building alone forms the entire southern edge of the square. The monotonous façade rhythmically alternates between grand, round-arched warehouse doors and smaller shutters, while the central bay is mechanically emphasised in the middle part of the façade without any relation to the spatial structure of the building. It is crowned by a frieze in the standard manner of an amphitheatre, and above it, in the middle part of the bay, rises a pendant attic. In fact, it is a typical introduction to Riga of the Russian Empire, which is alien to the character of its environment in the scale and volume of its details.
The building was constructed between 1828 and 1832 under the direction of the master builder Gottfried Johann Daniel (1768-1831). It was designed by St.Petersburg architects Alexander Nellinger (1789-1840) and possibly Giovanni (Ivan) Lukin (1784-1853), with the participation of Julius Adolf Spazier. From 1920 to 1930, the building was a warehouse for the Latvian army.
Flash is furthest from the subject in this picture, the black cardboard in the backgound is actually curved outwards, the flash is behind and above the glass.
Alison Saar, Born Los Angeles, CA 1956
Rouse, 2012, wood, bronze, paper, antler sheds, and stamped ceiling tin,
The word "rouse" means to awaken and animate, and this sculpture evokes the self-awakening and personal transformation we often experience when encountering a turning point in life. Alison Saar made Rouse when her daughter left for college. The artist began thinking about "being menopausal . . . moving into new territory in my work . . . ready to let this other part of me mature and come out and be realized."
The massive antlers cradle a delicate, translucent adult figure in a fetal position, like a creature preparing to emerge from its cocoon. Scattered on the ground below are antlers that suggest a root network and, as the artist notes, mark "the passage of time to bring a child to adulthood."
“When I’m working with specific ideas, information from cultures outside of my own, I seek to understand them through my own personal experience in relation to everything I feel: my pain, my understanding of love or anger, what I hope for and dream about.”
–– Alison Saar, 1995
Alison Saar’s sculptures and installations are rooted in her interests in materiality and histories of art, religion, and spirituality from a global range of communities, including the African diaspora and Indigenous peoples, among others.
Saar was raised by the accomplished artists Betye and Richard Saar, whose distinct careers shaped her artistic development. Saar’s father, a classically trained art conservator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), encouraged her to read books on Michelangelo, which influenced the solid and muscular physicality of her sculpted figures. Her mother’s artwork—assemblages of found objects that explore spirituality, folklore, and Black experience—fostered Saar’s interests in self-taught, African, Mexican, Native American, East Indian, and Asian art. In 1963, Saar moved with her parents to Laurel Canyon, a semirural enclave in Los Angeles, where she began the intensive engagement with found materials that proved crucial to her artistic practice, foraging for objects that she viewed as having “memory and spirit and a sense of that history.”
From 1974 to 1978, Saar attended Scripps College in Claremont, studying art of the African diaspora with Dr. Samella Lewis while making abstractions that attempted to, in her words, “evoke spirit through color and a very ethereal form.” In 1981, she received her MFA from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, carving her first wooden figurative sculptures for her thesis. A year later, Saar moved to New York City and began the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Artist in Residence program in 1983. There, Saar constructed larger-than-life sculptures of women and men from salvaged tin ceiling tiles and wood. In 1991, Saar began bronze-casting public artworks, creating figurative statues that responded to their sites through layered cultural and historical references.
In the 1990s, Saar became a mother and began integrating this new experience into her work. She collaborated with her mother on works and shifted her subject matter to be “very female.” This mode culminated in Rouse (2012, SAAM), made when her daughter left for college. During this period, Saar also addressed current events such as the AIDS epidemic, Hurricane Katrina, and racial violence, creating an array of works that “attempt to distill bigotry to its essence in order to dispel it.” In the years following President Barack Obama’s election, she continued to probe racism through works that recast historical Black literary characters from racial stereotypes to autonomous subjects, such as in Reapers (2021, SAAM).
Imbuing urban and rural detritus with personal and cultural references, Saar’s career-long engagement with figuration takes “the ordinary” and goes “with it into the surreal.” As she once stated, “I’ve always treated the body as a courier for ideas, and within this shell we can understand and feel an experience better than a cerebral understanding.”
Authored by Gabriella Shypula, American Women’s History Initiative Writer and Editor, 2024.
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"Women, queer artists, and artists of color have finally become the protagonists of recent American art history rather than its supporting characters. This is the lesson to be learned from the programming at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art since it reopened in 2015, and it is now the big takeaway in the nation’s capital, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, whose contemporary art galleries have reopened after a two-year closure.
During that time, architect Annabelle Selldorf refurbished these galleries, which have the challenge of pushing art history’s limits without going too far. Her interventions in these spaces are fairly inoffensive. Mainly, she’s pared down some of the structural clutter, removing some walls that once broke up a long, marble-floored hallway. To the naked eye, the galleries are only slightly different.
What is contained within, however, has shifted more noticeably—and is likely to influence other museums endeavoring to diversify their galleries. For one thing, I have never encountered a permanent collection hang with more Latinx and Native American artists, who, until very recently, were severely under-represented in US museums. That unto itself is notable.
It is a joy to see, presiding over one tall gallery, three gigantic beaded tunics courtesy of Jeffrey Gibson, a Choctaw artist who will represent the US at the next Venice Biennale. Printed with bombastic patterning and hung on tipi poles, they hang over viewers’ heads and allude to the Ghost Shirts used by members of the Sioux to reach ancestral spirits. One says on it “WITHOUT YOU I’M NOTHING.” That statement can also be seen as a confession on behalf of SAAM’s curators to the artists now included in this rehang: a multiplicity of perspectives is more nourishing than having just one.
Something similar can be seen in Judith F. Baca’s Las Tres Marías (1976). The installation features a drawing of a shy-looking chola on one side and an image of Baca as a tough-as-nails Pachuca on the other. These are both Chicana personae—the former from the ’70s, the latter from the ’40s—and the third component, a long looking glass, sutures the viewer into the piece. It’s no surprise this piece is shaped like a folding mirror, an item used to examine how one may present to the outside world. Baca suggests that a single reflection isn’t enough. To truly understand one’s self, many are needed.
It is hardly as though the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection ever lacked diversity. Nam June Paik’s Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii (2002), a video installation featuring a map of the country with each state’s borders containing TV monitors, is a crown jewel of the collection. It has returned once more, where it now faces a 2020 Tiffany Chung piece showing a United States strung with thread. So, too, has Alma Thomas’s magnum opus, Red Azaleas Singing and Dancing Rock and Roll Music (1976), a three-part stunner showing an array of petal-like red swatches drifting across white space.
But the usual heroes of 20th century art history are notably absent. Partly, that is because the Smithsonian American Art Museum doesn’t own notable works by canonical figures like Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg. (For those artists, you’d have to head to the National Gallery of Art.) Yet it is also partly because the curators want to destabilize the accepted lineage of postwar American art, shaking things up a bit and seeing where they land.
There is, of course, the expected Abstract Expressionism gallery, and while works by Willem de Kooning and Clyfford Still are present, those two are made to share space with artists whose contributions are still being properly accounted for. The standouts here are a prismatic painting by Ojibwe artist George Morrison and a piquant hanging orb, formed from knotted steel wire, by Claire Falkenstein.
This being the nation’s capital, there is also an entire space devoted to the Washington Color School. Come for Morris Louis’s 20-foot-long Beta Upsilon (1960), on view for the first time in 30 years, now minus the pencil marks left on its vast white center by a troublemaking visitor a long time ago. Stay for Mary Pinchot Meyer’s Half Light (1964), a painting that features a circle divided into colored quadrants, one of which has two mysterious dots near one edge.
From there, the sense of chronology begins to blur. The Baca piece appears in a gallery that loosely takes stock of feminist art of the 1970s; a clear picture of the movement’s aims fails to emerge because the various artists’ goals appear so disparate. It’s followed by an even vaguer gallery whose stated focus is “Multiculturalism and Art” during the ’70s and ’80s. Beyond the fact that all five artists included are not white, the gallery doesn’t have much of a binding thesis.
This partial view of recent art history leads to gaps, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. It’s a good thing because it offers due recognition for art-historical nonpareils. Audrey Flack is represented by Queen (1976), a Photorealist painting showing a view of a sliced orange, a rose, photographs, a playing card, and trinkets blown up to a towering size. It’s both gaudy and glorious. Hats off to the curators for letting it shine.
Then there are two totem-like sculptures by the late Truman Lowe, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, that are allowed to command a tall space of their own. They feature sticks of peeled willow that zigzag through boxy lumber structures, and they refuse to enjoin themselves to any artistic trend. Later on, there are three deliciously odd paintings by Howard Finster, of Talking Heads album cover fame. One shows Jesus descended to a mountain range strewn with people and cars who scale the peaks. Try cramming that into the confines of an accepted art movement.
That’s just three lesser-knowns who make an impact—there are many others on hand, from Ching Ho Cheng to Ken Ohara. And yet, herein lies this hang’s big problem: its gaping omissions in between them all, which are likely to be visible not just to the literati of the art world but to the general public, too.
Despite the focus of these new galleries being the 1940s to now, Pop, Minimalism, Conceptualism, and their resultant offshoots are skipped over entirely as the curators rush through the postwar era in order to get closer to the present. The Paik installation aside, there is almost no video art in this hang (although there is a newly formed space for moving-image work where a Carrie Mae Weems installation can be found), and no digital art or performance documentation at all, which is a shame, given that the museum owns important works by the likes of Cory Arcangel and Ana Mendieta, respectively. The AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ’90s and its devastating impact on the art world isn’t mentioned a single time in the wall text for these new galleries, and queer art more broadly is a blind spot.
Protest art periodically makes the cut, but any invocation of racism, misogyny, colonialism, and the like is typically abstracted or aestheticized. That all makes a work like Frank Romero’s Death of Rubén Salazar (1986) stand out. The painting depicts the 1970 killing of a Los Angeles Times reporter in a café during an unrelated incident amid a Chicano-led protest against the high number of Latino deaths in the Vietnam War. With its vibrant explosions of tear gas (Salazar was killed when a tear gas canister shot by the LA Sheriff Department struck his head) and its intense brushwork, it is as direct as can be—a history painting for our times. So, too, in a much different way, is Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s Run, Jane, Run! (2004), a piece that ports over the “Immigrant Crossing” sign, first installed near the US-Mexico border in Southern California in the 1990s, and remakes it as a yellow tapestry that is threaded with barbed wire.
In general, this presentation could use more art like Romero and Jimenez Underwood’s. Yet the curators at least cop to the fact they’re seeking to hold handsome craftmanship and ugly historical events in tension, and the methods on display are productive in that regard.
By way of example, there’s Firelei Báez 2022 painting Untitled (Première Carte Pour L’Introduction A L’Histoire De Monde), which features a spray of red-orange paint blooming across a page from an 18th-century atlas documenting Europe’s colonies. One could say Báez’s blast of color recalls the bloodshed of manifest destiny, but that seems like an unfair interpretation for a work that provides so much visual pleasure. Rather than re-presenting the violence of a bygone era, Báez beautifies it. The result allows history to begin anew—on Báez’s own terms."
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Following the breach of enemy positions, members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine advance toward their objectives during the Battle of INNOC exercise at Operation UNIFIER - United Kingdom Training Element on November 24, 2024.
Photo by: Canadian Armed Forces Imagery Technician
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Après avoir franchi les lignes ennemies, des membres des forces armées ukrainiennes progressent vers leurs objectifs au cours de l’exercice Battle of INNOC, à l’élément d’instruction de l’opération UNIFIER au Royaume-Uni, le 24 novembre 2024.
Photo : Technicien en imagerie des Forces armées canadiennes
Position, Point Guard/Shooting Guard
Name. Daniel Boris Millican
Date Of Birth. 06/02/2005
Home City. Gateshead.
Started playing basketball at 9 years old.
Daniel has played for several clubs at different levels which are listed below..
1. Gateshead Phoenix Basketball Club.
U12 Eagles Central Venue League.
2. Birtley Phoenix Basketball Club.
U12 Eagles Central Venue League.
U14 Eagles Central Venue League.
U16 Eagles Central Venue League.
U18 Eagles Central Venue League.
3. Newcastle Eagles Basketball Club.
U14 National League North East Premier Division.
4. Tees Valley Mohawks Basketball Club.
U14 National League North East Conference Division.
U16 National League North East Conference Division.
U16 Local League.
Division 3 National Men's League (Covid) Abandoned.
5. Whickham Spartans Basketball Team.
Tynemet Division 2 Local Men's League.
6. Teesside Lions Basketball club. U18 National League North East Conference Division.
U18 Local Tribal League.
Division 3 National Men's League.
7. East Durham Lions Basketball Club.
U18 National League North East Conference Division.
Durham Basketball League Division 1 Local Men's.
8. Team Sunderland Basketball Club.
Division 3 National Men's League.
Division 1 Local Men's League.
9. Gateshead College Basketball Team.
Association Of Colleges Northern League.
10. South Tyneside Basketball Club. Tynemet Division 1 Local Men's league
Daniel also represented the North East at the Basketball England aspire junior level over a two year period 2018 and 2019.
Daniel would have made the final cut at the Yorkshire Basketball England aspire junior level if not for covid stopping the event 2020.
Daniel Has Aspirations to play in any of the following Leagues or tournaments.
The British Basketball League (BBL)
Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the EuroLeague and the Basketball Champions League Americas.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the most significant professional basketball league in the world in terms of popularity, salaries, talent, and level of competition (drawing most of its talent from U.S. college basketball).
The FIBA Basketball World Cup and Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament are the major international events of the sport and attract top national teams from around the world.
Each continent hosts regional competitions for national teams, like EuroBasket and FIBA AmeriCup.