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- Humanities (NF 3.11:)
- Humanities is the magazine of the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH). It describes NEH programs, projects, and
issues. It also contains articles on the humanities in general, as
well as grant information.
- Millennium Evenings at the White House (PREX 1.21:M 61/)
- Millennium Evenings at the White House are a series of
events hosted by the President and First Lady that highlight creativity
and inventiveness through our ideas, art and scientific discoveries. The
overall theme of the evenings was Honor the Past - Imagine the
Future. There are currently seven videos in the collection
featuring lectures and performances by Professor Bernard Bailyn,
Stephen Hawking, Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass, Rita Dove, Wynton
Marsalis, Marian McPartland, Diane reeves, Billy Taylor, Professor
Zemon Davis, Professor Martin Marty, Professor Nancy Cott, Professor
Alice Kessler-Harris, Dr. Ruth Simmons, and Professor Elie Wiesel.
They address such topics as the Living Past, Imagination and Change,
the American Voice in Poetry, Jazz, the Meaning of the Millennium,
Women as Citizens, and the Perils of Indifference.
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (SI 13)
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The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution
is named after the American collector of modern art Joseph H. Hirshhorn
(1899-1981). His gifts and bequest to the nation of nearly 12,000 works
form the core of this dynamic art collection. Open since 1974, the
Hirshhorn keeps current through changing exhibitions and frequent
acquisitions, which include gifts from many donors. Research,
publications, interpretive programs, films, and community outreach
generate an informed awareness and lively dialogue about modern and
contemporary art.
- National Endowment for the Arts (NF 2)
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The National Endowment for the Arts, an investment in America's living
cultural heritage, serves the public good by nurturing the expression of
human creativity, supporting the cultivation of community spirit, and
fostering the recognition and appreciation of the excellence and diversity
of our nation's artistic accomplishments.
- National Gallery of Art (SI 8)
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The National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 for the people of the
United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress, accepting the
gift of financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon. The paintings and
works of sculpture given by Andrew Mellon have formed a nucleus of high
quality around which the collections have grown. Mr. Mellon's hope that
the newly created National Gallery would attract gifts from other
collectors was soon realized in the form of major donations of art from
Samuel H. Kress, Rush H. Kress, Joseph Widener, Chester Dale, Ailsa Mellon
Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, and Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler
Garbisch as well as individual gifts from hundreds of other donors. The
mission of the National Gallery of Art is to serve the United States of
America in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and
fostering the understanding of works of art, at the highest possible
museum and scholarly standards.
- National Portrait Gallery (SI 11)
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The act of Congress creating the National Portrait Gallery in 1962 stated
that it would function as "a free public museum for the exhibition and
study of portraiture and statuary depicting men and women who have made
significant contributions to the history, development, and culture of the
people of the United States, and the artists who created such portraiture
and statuary."
- Smithsonian American Art Museum (SI 6)
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum is the home of the largest collection
of American art in the world. Its holdings - over 37,500 works - represent
the most inclusive collection of American art of any general museum today,
reflecting the nation's ethnic, geographic, cultural, and religious
diversity. The museum's roots go deep, representing three hundred years of
American artistic achievement and paralleling the nation's own cultural
development. Today, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Cole, Mary Cassatt, Winslow
Homer, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Helen
Frankenthaler are among the familiar artists featured in the museum's
galleries.
If you find documents of interest in these bibliographies, you can check
GIL to determine if
we have them at Ingram Library.
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