The 82-year-old filmmaker behind the most lucrative franchise in movie history has spent 17 years and weathered failed bids in two other cities to build a 100,000-square-foot temple to the art the establishment long dismissed. George Lucas showed up unannounced at a media preview this week for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los […] The post George Lucas opens his Los Angeles museum — and Star Wars is only 7 percent of it appeared first on American Almanac .
The 82-year-old filmmaker behind the most lucrative franchise in movie history has spent 17 years and weathered failed bids in two other cities to build a 100,000-square-foot temple to the art the establishment long dismissed. George Lucas showed up unannounced at a media preview this week for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, wearing a T-shirt that read "Dedicated to the people's art." The museum, set in Exposition Park next to his alma mater at the University of Southern California, opens to the public on September 22. It houses the personal collections of Lucas and his wife, businesswoman and major African-American art collector Mellody Hobson, and its curators want visitors to know that the galaxy far, far away fills…Open
So You Want to See The President! depicts a procession of visitors waiting to see Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The original 1943 Rockwell suite of illustrations goes on public view Thursday in D.C.
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The Smithsonian is falsely claiming that President Richard Nixon was impeached in its new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. The gallery’s “America’s Presidents” exhibit reopened to the public on May 15 and includes a portrait of the 37th president by acclaimed American artist Norman Rockwell. Jim Byron, president and CEO of the Richard Nixon […] The post The Institutional Smear Campaign Against Nixon is an Assault on MAGA appeared first on StoneZone .
The Smithsonian is falsely claiming that President Richard Nixon was impeached in its new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. The gallery’s “America’s Presidents” exhibit reopened to the public on May 15 and includes a portrait of the 37th president by acclaimed American artist Norman Rockwell. Jim Byron, president and CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation , wrote a letter to the gallery’s acting director Elliot Gruber noting that the biography accompanying the portrait falsely states that Nixon was impeached on the charges of obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress. “In fact, President Nixon was never impeached,” Byron wrote. “He resigned on August 9, 1974 before the…Open
The Smithsonian may have falsely claimed that President Richard Nixon was impeached in its new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. The gallery’s “America’s Presidents” exhibit reopened to the public on May 15 and includes a portrait of the 37th president by acclaimed American artist Norman Rockwell. Jim Byron, president and CEO of the […] The post Smithsonian Accused of Rewriting Nixon History with False Impeachment Claim appeared first on StoneZone .
The Smithsonian may have falsely claimed that President Richard Nixon was impeached in its new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. The gallery’s “America’s Presidents” exhibit reopened to the public on May 15 and includes a portrait of the 37th president by acclaimed American artist Norman Rockwell. Jim Byron, president and CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation, wrote a letter to the gallery’s acting director Elliot Gruber alleging that the biography accompanying the portrait falsely states that Nixon was impeached, according to a copy of the letter Byron posted to X Wednesday. According to Byron’s letter, the biography says “investigations into a break in at the Watergate complex and the…Open