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Humans have been producing self-portraits ever since the first cave artist put brush to rock.
Elaine de Kooning Self-Portrait, oil on Masonite, 1946. (Courtesy of The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)
Open at the Albuquerque Art Museum beginning Saturday, June 12, “Eye to I: Self-Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery” gathers more than 50 works examining the ways American artists have portrayed themselves since the beginning of the last century. Curators have organized the exhibition chronologically by medium (photography, painting, printmaking and works on paper.)
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With each self-portrait, artists either affirm or rebel against a sense of identity linking eye to “I.”
Santa Fe’s Will Wilson (Diné) expands the documentary work of the early 20th century photographer Edward Curtis through the lens of a 21st century Indigenous artist in “How the West Is One,” owned by the Albuquerque Museum. Wilson uses a tintype process
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
The lyrics of “Auld Lang Syne” are in the Scots language. The title, translated literally into standard English, is
Old Long Since. The words can be interpreted as
since long ago or
for old times’ sake. The lyrics are about old friends having a drink and recalling adventures they had long ago. There is no specific reference to the new year.
Burns first wrote down “Auld Lang Syne” in 1788, but the poem did not appear in print until shortly after his death in 1796. It was first published in volume five of James Johnson’s
The World War II German encryption devices are rare and sell for thousands at auction.
The Enigma machine, recently in the news after divers found one at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, is an encryption device that was developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic and military communication. It was employed extensively by Nazi Germany during World War II, in all branches of the German military.
They are rare machines and when they come to auction, they sell for thousands of dollars, as did the ones featured here that sold in 2020.
Enigma I electromechanical cipher machine, 1935, featuring an ebonite Steckerbrett (plugboard) on the front, which was exclusive to the German armed forces and exponentially increased the complexity of the code. This version of the Enigma is sometimes referred to as the Heeres (Army) Enigma, Wehrmacht Enigma, or Luftwaffe Enigma due to its military-specific application. This particular example boasts rare character