Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Friday, January 25, 2019

A Combat Artists Sketch Book

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Capt. C.J. Baumann, right, holds his sketchbook while in Djibouti, Africa, on a Marine tour funded by the National Museum of the Marine C...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

Guns And America

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The most profound 36 seconds of your day. You will not regret watching this. 2nd Amendment+USA 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/X9mtrCkG6e — X Strate...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2018

This Is How The Mona Lisa Was Saved During World War Two

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A new book reveals how Jacques Jaujard worked out a modus vivendi with the Nazis of civil co-existence which helped him to oversee the ev...
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Monday, May 1, 2017

Why “Guernica” Is The Greatest War Painting Of All Time

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Noah Charney, Salon : Picasso’s weapon against fascism: Why “Guernica” is the greatest of all war paintings 80 years after Franco's...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Art Exhibit Calls Brussels And Paris Bombers As 'Martyrs'

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Ibrahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui have been identified by Belgian police as the Brussels suicide bombers. Photograph: INTERPOL/HANDOUT The...
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Friday, October 9, 2015

Is Russian President Putin About To Inherit A $2 Billion Art Collection?

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Putin touring the Guggenheim Museum in 2005. This painting is unrelated to the collection mentioned in the article. Business Insider: ...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Imagining A Nuclear Middle East

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Hat Tip: Theo Spark
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

The Real Monuments Men

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American GIs hand-carry paintings down the steps of the Neuschwanstein castle under the supervision of Capt. James Rorimer. NARA photo:...
Saturday, December 7, 2013

The CIA's Secret Art Collection

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After 9/11, operations against al-Qa’ida were launched. The first CIA team landed in Afghanistan just 15 days after the attack and immedi...
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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Portraits Of War

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Victor Juhasz, an artist with the Society of Illustrators in New York, working on a drawing of Staff Sergeant Alejandro Jaurequi at Walter R...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Moving Oil Paintings Of Life On The Front Line

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Eye-opening moments: The sergeant major worked from life, photos and his war diaries It's The Studio Of War: Sgt Major Fighting Taliban ...
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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Artwork By US Soldiers Shows A Century Of War Through Their Eyes

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Young soldier: Look at the childlike face of this modern solider, loaded down with a weapon and the gear required to fight in Iraq and Afgha...
Friday, November 11, 2011

A Sculpture By Douwe Blumberg Titled “De Oppresso Liber” Honors Our Military

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Special Forces On Horseback in Afghanistan Commando Monument Near Ground Zero Unveiled On Veterans Day -- Washington Times NORMAN, Okla. — T...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

So Much For The Army's $600,000 Toad Art Projec

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Army Scraps $600,000 Toad Art Project -- U.S. News And World Report The Army, under public and congressional attack for a $600,000 plan to d...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Women And Modern Art In War Torn Afghanistan

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‘Scream’, by Marzia Nazary, at the arts center’s exhibition. Adam Ferguson/VII Network for The New York Times Women and Modern Art in Afgha...