The Rapid City Journal
The Rapid City Journal: "Artists honor their culture
By Jomay Steen, Journal Staff Writer
RAPID CITY � For some American Indian artists, honoring their culture opened the door to their art.
Last fall, Gerald Yellow Hawk's 'Honoring the Third Circle' not only won the People's Choice Poster Contest but also inspired the powwow committee to adapt it as the theme of its 19th annual He Sapa Wacipi Black Hills Pow Wow.
At 68, Yellow Hawk, a retired Wesleyan Methodist minister living in Black Hawk, recently returned to the easel. A busy family man with a demanding career in ministry, Yellow Hawk has been painting periodically.
'About 10 years ago, I picked up my brushes again,' he said."
Slow Week for Art
Slow Week for Art, With Few ExceptionsBy RANDY KENNEDYBesides a few conservative-oriented galleries and events, New York's art community and the visiting Republicans largely kept their distance.
Artist's plan to hold a mock lynching of a Confederate flag stirs controversy
Artist's plan to hold a mock lynching of a Confederate flag stirs controversy: "Artist's plan to hold a mock lynching of a Confederate flag stirs controversy"
Poets Refuse To Be Censored During Chicago Poetry Fest
Poets Refuse To Be Censored During Chicago Poetry Fest
This August, eighty of the best writers in the City of Chicago will gather to celebrate freedom of speech.
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"Who's there"
"Save a child"
"Save a child, who?"
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The Scream is Stolen
OSLO, Aug. 22 - The Norwegian police were scouring the country on Sunday for "The Scream" - Edvard Munch's masterpiece of existential angst and one of the world's most famous paintings - after armed robbers grabbed it and another painting off the wall of a crowded museum and sped off in a black station wagon.
The painting, which features a haunted-looking stick of a man howling on a bridge under a sunset, is an icon of the modern Expressionist school of painting and has been replicated humorously on coffee mugs, T-shirts and shower curtains the world over. The other stolen painting, "Madonna," is perhaps the second best-known image by the artist.
" 'The Scream' is in a league by itself," said Franck Giraud, a New York art dealer and a former head of modern art at Christie's. "It's almost impossible to value, but if it were for sale today, it could sell for over $100 million and become the most expensive painting in the world."
full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/23/international/europe/23scream.html
Dana Ellyn
Dana Ellyn
"One of the most extraordinary and dedicated fulltime artists I have come across in Washington, DC... "
- J. Smith, Poetic Inhalation
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