Atmosphere. This is good for artists because you have to feel like you can do anythingmissive atmosphere. This is good for artists because you have to feel like you can do anythi anything. A gamble on getting people off the strip and into art galleries. In eastern skrairn this weekendukraine this weekend the situation is escalating. Russian sympathizers have taken over state buildings in several eastern cities. After a week of protests, donesks Police Station has stepped down. Armed men opened fire seizing buildings in other towns. Leaders in kiev call todays an act of aggression from russia. Al jazeeras kim vanell has the latest reporter this is the Police Station, usually a place for local offices now in the hands of prorussian activists. More than a dozen gunmen, many with professional grade weapons go in and out of the building. Its unclear how many more may be waiting inside. Outside the building, local supporters gather. Hundreds chanting the words referendum. They say they want
How volunteers helping where the government is not. Traditional healers from nigeria. We are in lagos and more and more people are finding better results. We go to ukraine where an exercise has been said to be launched. Gunmen seized hundreds of weapons when they took over a Police Station in slough. Our correspondent Hoda Abdelhamid sees no visible sign of the authorities getting tough at all when you arrived. Absolutely, and theres no visible sign. The building to my right there are people standing there, they have the barricade of rubber tyres manned by me who are not carries weapons. Presumably the ones that stormed the building are in the building. You dont see them. We are in the city center, there was a warning from the government for the resident to evacuate. I think few have heeded that call. Families are Walking Around, shops are open. This there is an antiterror operation carried on. I think we are at the early stages of it, or it has not started. What we did see is a 45 che
Built on a trapezoidal pl of land adjoining the original gallery, the East Building is of a unique and radical design, utilizing triangular shapes with large interior spaces. It was a collaborative effort spanning more than ten years. Director j. Carter brown worked closely with architect i. M. Pei in its development. Seven works of art were commissioned it was agreed that a specific pieceas needed to animate the unbroken expanse of wall in the central courtyard. But the artist would have to have a capacity for monumental concepts, with a sense of color and scale appropriate to the site. A unanimous choice was spanish artist joan miro. Bo in the catalan city of barcelona in 1893, miro has remained close to the land and its people. But as a young man in paris, he joined th friends like max ernst and jean arp in the emerging Surrealist Movement of the 1920s. In his painting the farm, miros characteristic symbols and themes began to appear serpentine shapes, checkerboard patterns, infinit
Before it is too late in life, and before your manner and taste were corrupted or fixed by working in your little way at boston. Narrator an impressive letter to a young painter and from the distinguished sir joshua reynolds. Could he be right . harpsichord continues John Singleton copley loved his country, but he wanted the richer artistic influences of the old world. Besides, talk of revolution was everywhere. Political contests, he felt, were neither pleasing to an artist nor advantageous to art itself. In 1774, copley left; it would make him a better painter, he thought. Sad for him, sad for america he never returned to his home. At 34, John Singleton copley was already one of the best and most popular painters in the american colonies. The Young American artist John Trumbull said of him, an elegantlooking man dressed in fine maroon cloth with gold buttons, this dazzling to my unpracticed eye, but his painting, the first id ever seen deserving the name, rivetedabsorbed my attention
music narrator thomas moran embarked on his first trip to the west in 1871. The United States at the time was still recovering from the ravages of the civil war. Americans turned with hope to the western frontier. By painting the pristine grandeur of these remote places, moran enabled 19thcentury americans to visualize a magnificent landscape most would never see. His paintings transformed their perceptions of the west. From 1867 to 1879, the United States government sponsored four western expeditions, now known as the great surveys. Of all the ais who accompanied them, none is more associated with the surveys than thomas moran. The watercolors he brought back from wyoming, the first color images of yellowstone, played a key role in the creation of the National Parks system. Yellowstone had long been familiar to american indians, mountainmen, traders and travelers. Legendary,eemingly unbelievable stories made their way east. The canyon was said to be a fearful chasm the river a frightf