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Good morning. 🌬 Today, teen artists show at the Met Museum, early American paintings by a prolific deaf artist were donated to the American Folk Art Museum, the final “View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine” has been published and future posts will use the pre-pandemic name. Also, if you or an artist you know wants to be featured in the series you can find more information on the website.
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Promising Teen Artists Get the Spotlight at the Metropolitan Museum
Promising Teen Artists Get the Spotlight at the Metropolitan Museum
Former recipients of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards include Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Kay WalkingStick, and John Baldessari.
Hakim Bishara
What We Lose if the Amsterdam Hermitage Closes for Good
What We Lose if the Amsterdam Hermitage Closes for Good
Thanks to the pandemic, the museum may be on the verge of shutting its doors just when Europe needs its Russian ambassador more than ever.
Tim Brinkhof
Three Film Reviews
A Documentary About How We Got, How We Got to Sesame Street
A Documentary About How We Got, How We Got to Sesame Street
Street Gang is an insightful story on the art of breaking ground.
Kyndall Cunningham
"Liborio" Affirms the Force of Mythology and Collective Faith
An immersive dive into communal myth-making, Nino Martínez Sosa’s film brings a Dominican spiritual leader to back to life.
Alonso Aguilar
Deep in the Forest, Scientists Succumb to Religious Rapture
The British horror film In the Earth bloodily observes how fervent belief makes fools of us all.
Juan Barquin
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Portraits by John Brewster Jr., a Prolific Deaf Painter, Gifted to American Folk Art Museum
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A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine
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