Thirty years ago 1991
Paul Redlich of Fredonia is seeking to lease 3,000 square feet of space at the County Airport North in Dunkirk for his Stars and Bars Aircraft Co., a firm which will restore antique and vintage aircraft of the “Warbird” era. Redlich noted that the “Stars and Bars” in his firm’s name refers not to the old Confederate Civil War flag but to the Air Force slang for the wing and body emblems on World War II aircraft.
Forty years ago 1981
At its annual awards dinner in New York City, the National Arts Club awarded architect I.M. Pei its Gold Medal of Honor. Mr. Pei and his firm were master architects for the SUNY Fredonia campus layout, including the road system, with construction costs of $50,000,000. Designs by the architect include Rockefeller Arts Center, Maytum Hall, Reed Library, McEwen Hall and the Campus Center, among others.
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This mural at a Chicago public school building is among several early 20th-century works in the city’s collection that have been criticized for having outdated depictions of Native Americans and other races and ethnicities. Photo courtesy of Chicago Public Schools.
2. “Resolving Tensions Over Race and Representation in Public Art” at the National Coalition Against Censorship, New York
The National Coalition Against Censorship is hosting a virtual luncheon to consider the delicate issue of historic WPA murals that whitewash problematic aspects of US history, and whether or not to remove them. Karyn Olivier, an artist and professor at Temple University in Philadelphia; Adriene Lim, dean of libraries at the University of Maryland; and scholar and curator Anthony Huffman will discuss.
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The Snite Museum of Art announces gifts of six important American and British paintings
John Henry Twachtman (American, 18531902), The Chicago Worlds Fair, Illinois Building, ca. 1893. Oil on canvas. Gift of Ann Uhry Abrams, PhD 2020.029.001.
NOTRE DAME, IN
.-The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame is delighted to announce that it is the recipient of six noteworthy paintings from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries that will significantly augment the Museums holdings in American and British art. The Museum is deeply grateful for these gifts, many by donors with long relationships to the Museum and Notre Dame, states Joseph Antenucci Becherer, Director of the Snite Museum of Art. The importance of our 18th.-, 19th- and 20th-century collections have been greatly enhanced with these works.
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