Norman Rockwell

Massachusetts Trooper Immortalized In Rockwell Painting Dies

AP | Posted 05.09.2012

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BOSTON -- A retired Massachusetts state trooper who was a model for Norman Rockwell's 1958 Saturday Evening Post illustration, "The Runaway," has died...

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Thank Goodness the Holidays Are Over!!!

Tom Alderman | Posted 03.18.2012

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Just what is a happy family? Do you know what one actually looks like? Seems to be the whole concept is up for interpretation.

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Alice Neel's Dysfunctional Thanksgiving

Julia Friedman | Posted 01.28.2012

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On a free afternoon during a recent lecture trip to Eugene, Oregon, I stopped by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art to see the traveling exhibition of...

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Astoria Characters: The Kindred Spirit

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 01.23.2012

It's Thanksgiving time, and Kim Parshley is getting ready to make her famous pumpkin pie. She wishes the recipe had been handed down from her grandmother. It wasn't; she was left to concoct it all by herself.

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'Tis The Season Of Unrealistic Spousal Expectations

Darryl A. Cobbin | Posted 01.23.2012

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Knowing what's important to one another, and making an honest effort to deliver, will go a long way towards mitigating the potential downside of any unrealistic expectations surrounding Thanksgiving.

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Astoria Characters: The Pane-Air Painter

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 12.25.2011

For three decades, Berch and his brushes have been beautifying Astoria, and for three decades, he's stayed pretty much behind the glass.

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Obama's Rockwell Choice and Response Tell the Story

Mark Sawyer | Posted 10.28.2011

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The white nationalism and racial narcissism embedded in the critique of Obama's use of the painting demonstrates both Obama's challenge and the challenge that remains for overcoming racial inequality in the 21st century.

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Watch: Rockwell Civil Rights Painting Hung Outside Oval Office

Posted 10.25.2011

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A Norman Rockwell Painting, "The Problem We All Live With," which depicts a powerful image from the civil rights struggle, has been hung outside the o...

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From Jim Croce to MTM: A Conversation With Producer, Singer & Songwriter Tommy West

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.16.2011

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A Summer Of Art Events In NYC

Posted 09.22.2011

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(Via Mutual Art) In keeping with tradition, the art world has taken its usual late-summer vacation, with many venues and events on hiatus in July a...

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WATCH: Civil Rights Icon Visits Obama To Discuss Rockwell Painting

Posted 09.20.2011

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The White House's recent addition of a Norman Rockwell painting has prompted a serious discussion of civil rights. Rockwell's 1963 painting, "The Prob...

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Obama Asks To Borrow Rockwell Painting

boston.com | Posted by Sebastian Smee | Posted 09.06.2011

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In the art world, people habitually conflate artistic conservatism with political conservatism, and - flipping the terms - artistic originality with p...

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Farm Tour: Search for an Authentic Life

Leah Mayor | Posted 05.25.2011

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Now may be as good a time as any to use our travel time and dollars to get to know our neighbors a town or a state over, and to find where authenticity lives in our own communities.

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Norman Rockwell and Mark Twain: Two of a Kind

Jacques Lamarre | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is easy to forget how both Twain and Rockwell could be provocative or daring, depicting the gravity of issues involving subjects like race, gender and class with penetrating clarity and seriousness.

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Who's in Control?

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is the tenth in a series of 12 posts expounding on the 2011 forecasts in the annual trends report from Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwide ...

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Thanksgiving: Based on a Myth?

ArtScene | Posted 05.25.2011

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50 Years Later: Ruby Bridges Returns To School Where She Challenged Segregation

Posted 05.25.2011

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Fifty years ago, while American education remained officially segregated, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was the first black student to set foot in New Orlea...

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Astoria Characters: The Homemade Food Blogger

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

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"The biggest thing about cooking is the story about it," says Amuse * Bouche blogger Bradley O'Bryan Hawks. "The story always makes the food taste better."

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GREAT EXHIBITIONS: Testino at Saatchi Gallery, Gerome at The Getty, and Rockwell at American Art Museum

Posted 05.25.2011

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WHO: Mario Testino WHAT: 'Kate Who?' WHERE: Phillips de Pury & Company Howick Place London SW1P 1BB WHEN: Exhibition Opens 21 July 2010 WHY: Kate Who...

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'Heroes For My Son': The Day I Broke My Son's Heart (PHOTOS)

Brad Meltzer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Since the day my son was born eight years ago, I'd been writing a book for him. It's a collection of heroes -- from Jim Henson, to Rosa Parks, to Mr. Rogers.

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Is an Artist Only Appreciated After He Dies?

Daniel Grant | Posted 05.25.2011

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The concept of the starving artist whose death gives his or her works new life is more mystique than truth.

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Norman Rockwell Painting On Google Celebrates Artist's Birthday

Posted 05.25.2011

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A Norman Rockwell painting has taken over Google's logo today in celebration of the artist's birthday. Norman Rockwell's birthday was February 3, 189...

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This Jewish New Year, Let's Put An End to Hope

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011

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A hundred years of fighting have proven, if nothing else, that hope for a future in which one side gets all that it wants, and the other goes without, is hope for no future at all.

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Some Hard Truth About Hard Times

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Using the Depression as a baseline for discussions of national prosperity ignores an important historical truth: for millions of average citizens, money was tight prior to the 1930s.

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Wickedly Blessed

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'm thankful for the oncoming cornucopia of change. But for some dumb reason, while I'm a thankful person and feel wickedly blessed -- I'm just not crazy about Thanksgiving.

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