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Thursday 10 November 2011Leonardo Drew is Prize Recipient
NEW YORK, NY, October 31, 2011—The Studio Museum in Harlem has awarded the sixth annual Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize to Leonardo Drew. Continue reading
Wednesday 8 June 2011GILES author in prize controversy
Artist Richard Bell, whose exhibition Richard Bell: Uz vs Them opens in September, has just judged the prestigious Sulman Prize for painting by tossing a coin. Continue reading
Wednesday 30 March 2011Behind the scenes at the Museum
March 29, 2011
The excitement builds. The painters arrived this morning to paint the title wall a soothing gray-sage, a highly Rowlandson color, so fond he was of this and sky blue, pale yellow, anything tinted. He would be pleased, I’m sure. They queried me—do you want the sides of the wall painted, too? No. Do you want that little strip at the top painted? Nope. Just the face of the wall, I......Continue reading
Monday 28 March 2011Fresh look at the Civil War
PBS will repeat the acclaimed series from Ken Burns, 'The Civil War,' April 3 - 7. Mr. Burns also wrote the Foreword to the well-reviewed Discovering the Civil War, published by GILES.
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Monday 17 January 2011New light on "Clara and Mr. Tiffany"
New York Times bestselling author Susan Vreeland was so inspired by the New-York Historical Society's landmark exhibition A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, that she used the catalogue as the basis for her latest book Clara and Mr. Tiffany. Continue reading
