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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Net Neutality

The Democrats are bringing the much needed 'Net Neutrality' and the repugicans don't like it. It will bring an end to their attempts to monopolize and control the net.
The House Democrats' $825 billion legislation released on Thursday was supposedly intended to "stimulate" the economy. Backers claimed that speedy approval was vital because the nation is in "a crisis not seen since the Great Depression" and "the economy is shutting down."

That's the rhetoric. But in reality, Democrats are using the 258-page legislation to sneak Net neutrality rules in through the back door.

Read the rest of this piece here. There is no 'sneaking in back doors' going on here they're kicking in the front door and taking names.

A Hard Day's Night


The Beatles


The Beatles

Lean On Me


Bill Withers

As of this moment ...

4226 Brave men and women will not be returning from Iraq
ALIVE!

Our Readers in Real Time

We would like to say 'Howdy' to our latest Canadian visitor.

How is it in Hamilton, Ontario, this evening?

And to one of our returning readers in Singapore - How is Friday morning shaping up for you?

And I Quote

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

~ Clarence Darrow

James Callahan executed in Alabama for rape and murder

James Harvey Callahan has been executed for the 1982 kidnapping, rape and murder of an Alabama woman.

The 62-year-old Callahan died at 6:24 p.m. today by lethal injection at Alabama's Holman Prison for the murder of Rebecca Suzanne Howell, a 26-year-old Jacksonville State University student.

Callahan was the first of five inmates set for execution in the first five months of this year.

Bitter cold is tough on financially strapped

In another look a the shrub 'legacy' ...

AP Photo



William Davis has lived on the streets since the recession cost him his job as a commercial painter.
Over the last eight months, he's made it through heat waves, wind storms, rain, snow and ice.
But the 51-year-old finally sought help at a homeless shelter Thursday after enduring a night shivering alongside a downtown wall in temperatures that bottomed out at zero - the coldest reading here in eight years.
"People gave me blankets and food," Davis said. "I had about 15 covers on me.
I slept under this parking garage, where the wind came in only one direction.
It was pretty rough. I can deal with it. But it's hard."

The bone-numbing blast of arctic air that lingered over the Northeast and Midwest on Thursday was especially hard on Americans whose lives have been upended by the economic meltdown.
Ray Redlich, assistant director of New Life Evangelistic Center in St. Louis, said the homeless population has changed as the financial crisis has grown worse.
Now it includes more people like Davis who just months ago were working for a living.
"We found one young man in a sleeping bag under an overpass. He'd had his home foreclosed on," Redlich said.

The bitter cold killed car batteries, idled ski lifts and sent millions of people scurrying indoors for warmth, and at least two deaths were initially attributed to Thursday's freezing temperatures.
A 37-year-old central Illinois man was found face down in the snow - without a coat, hat or gloves - outside his condominium Thursday morning.
Preliminary autopsy results indicated the 37-year-old Normal resident was intoxicated and froze to death.
A 50-year-old man in southeastern Michigan appeared to have frozen to death early Thursday after being locked out of his duplex in Hamburg Township overnight.

The weather system descended from a large, dry air mass that had been lingering over Alaska and northern Canada for a couple of weeks before moving south.
The cold stretched from Montana to Maine and as far south as Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. Wind-chill advisories were issued in more than a dozen states.
Friday is expected to be even colder in the Northeast.

In northern Maine, where one ski area closed and others posted frostbite warnings, communities prepared for the likelihood that the thermometer would stay below zero until Sunday.
The effects of the cold snap, combined with the poor economy, were evident on frigid roads where numerous motorists became stranded.
Matt Ivey, who was driving a AAA tow truck to jump start stalled cars, said many automobiles were in rough shape.
"Because of the economy, people don't really have enough money to repair their vehicles," he said.

Salt trucks in Ohio were combining calcium chloride with salt to help melt road ice. The chemical is used in mixtures when temperatures fall below 20 degrees.
"But when it's this cold, there's not much that works," said Mary Carran Webster, assistant public service director in Columbus.
"It's hard to melt anything when you have a wind chill of minus something."

The nation's cold spots on Thursday were Garrison, N.D., and Pollock, S.D., both of which came in at 47 below zero. Records lows were recorded in Bismarck, N.D., where it was minus 44, and in Aberdeen, S.D., where it was minus 42.

The deep freeze was also notable for the large geographic area affected, said Scott Stephens, a meteorologist with the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
Other memorable cold snaps occurred in 2003 and 2004.
The winter of 1994 had the most prolonged extreme cold of recent years, he said.

When the air mass moved south, Alaska warmed up. Fairbanks topped out at 44 degrees Wednesday night after hitting 45 below zero last week.
"Right now as we speak, it's warmer in Fairbanks than in Nashville," said Bruce Terry, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Camp Springs, Md.
"That doesn't happen very often."

*****

Good advice: "Sit on the couch, read a good book, stay inside."

Ten Year Olds OK To Marry, Says Senior Saudi Official

The Mrs., found this over at Jezebel:


Saudi Arabia’s most senior Muslim cleric has recently been quoted as saying it's acceptable for girls as young as 10 years old to marry.

A pan-Arab newspaper picked up the quote by the country’s grand mufti, which made its way to the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper. The remarks were made during a lecture Monday, in which the cleric also stated that those who believe women should not marry before 25 are following a “bad path.” His comments come in response to recent attempts by Saudi human rights groups to put an end to marriages involving children. The National Human Right Commission has condemned the practice of marrying off young girls as an “inhumane violation.”

Report: Senior Saudi Cleric OKs Girls To Marry

Ten-year-olds should not be getting married and this cleric needs to be horsewhipped for thinking it is all right for ten-year-olds to marry - naked and in public - the horsewhipping that is.

ACLU challenges secrecy of US whistleblower law

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the constitutionality of a law that requires whistleblowers with allegations of war profiteering or other contract fraud to file their lawsuits in secret.

The secrecy requirements of the federal False Claims Act violate freedom-of-speech protections and have kept war fraud complaints in Iraq and elsewhere hidden from public view, the ACLU says in its lawsuit.

"Secret courts and secret proceedings have no place in this country," said Chris Hansen, senior attorney with the ACLU's First Amendment Working Group, in a statement.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, also alleges that the Justice Department has abused the law to keep allegations hidden for years.

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Leave it to Beavers


Pinky and the Brain

Story Round Up

Round up of eight Science and Health stories for the day.

When you hear the term "clean coal", you're being lied to

A device to avert strokes lacks proof that it works

Report highlights FDA's regulatory challenges posed by nanomaterials

High doses of fatty acids help mental development of premature babies

Free exercise and nutrition program in Brazil could serve as model in United States

Calories in cookbook recipes have grown over decades

Study shows that "decision by committee" works worst when the committee consists of eight people

If humanity is ever forced to be ruthlessly efficient food-wise, the answer may be silkworms

In this new feature we will be gathering stories in the fields of science, health, entertainment and sports into a listing on a periodic basis so check out the Story Round Up!

What Does It Take for a Police Officer To Get Fired?

Could it be ...

Shoving a 71-year-old Walmart greeter to the ground and, when another customer came to assist, shoving that customer through a glass door?

Nope, even though that particular officer has had several complaints filed against him, and was involved in another altercation a year earlier.

How about three DWI incidents within a one-year span, including one in which the officer ran a roadblock, then had to be tasered, pepper-sprayed, and wrestled to the ground; another in which he hit another car, then left the scene of the accident; and another in which he fell asleep in his cruiser in front of a school, while in drive, with his foot resting on the brake?

Nope. It took a fourth DWI incident to finally get him suspended.

How about an officer with an otherwise stellar record, who has a reputation in the department for honesty, but who became an outspoken critic of the war on drugs, and on one occasion declined to arrest a man after finding a single marijuana plant growing outside the man's home?

Yep, that'll do it.

Liars and Fools

This installment of Liars and Fools includes:

Wing-nut's Obama citizenship lawsuit is tossed again

On job-loss numbers, Fox's Garrett falsely asserts Obama's statement was untrue

shrub tells Fox's Hannity that he is "uncomfortable" channeling God

White House tapped interns to fill seats after few reporters show up for shrub press conference

shrub: 'I don't give a darn' what Americans think of me

Fox's O'Reilly lies that Holder "ordered" wall between CIA and FBI

Faux News is outraged: Obama is trying to steal Lincoln's identity!

Fox's Beck claims Obama "has Marxist tendencies"

the shrub sings "Happy Birthday" to Lush Dimbulb

Check back for more Liars and Fools.

And I Quote

"I think that there’s a lot that remains to look at, and I appreciate that Obama doesn’t want to make it his
purpose as a new president, with America in real distress in many directions, to go back and look at all this,
but I think we in Congress have an independent responsibility, and I fully intend to discharge that responsibility."

~ Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) saying he's ready to his job to investigate and punish the shrub for his crimes.

Guantanamo Detainees are on Hunger Strike, Being Force-Fed

About one-fifth of the people being held at Guantánamo Bay are on hunger strike.

According to a report in the UK Times newspaper, they are starving themselves as a form of protest to attract the attention of Barack Obama, who has said he plans to close the facility -- but has not said when or how. Most of the hunger-strikers are being force-fed through tubes.
Of the 248 inmates inside the detention facility, 44 are refusing food — but 33 of those are receiving nutrition with tubes that are forced up their noses and into their stomachs. On election night, according to one official, news of Mr Obama’s win spread across the prison facility even though no inmates had access to television that evening, and chants of “Obama! Obama! Obama!” erupted throughout the complex.

Human rights groups claim the total number of hunger strikers is higher than officials say. Gitanjali Gutierrez, a lawyer for the New York-based Centre for Constitutional Rights, says that more than 70 men held at the US base in Cuba are refusing to eat. She cited reports from visiting lawyers.

According to one official, most inmates are now well informed about what is happening in the outside world through a combination of watching Arabic news programs and meetings with civilian lawyers and the International Red Cross, who are allowed to visit the facility. Most are aware of Mr Obama’s pledge to close the prison, which received its first inmates seven years ago this week. Asked why so many were on hunger strike and why the number was increasing, an official said: “This is the seventh anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees, and a week today is the inauguration of a new president. Hunger striking is an acknowledged form of protest.”

Photos of London shopfronts


This is an archive of the disappearing independent shops in London and a review of interesting and sometimes worrying typography and design choices of small retailers.

The Archaeology of a hippie commune

Fascinating stuff here ...

Hippietable
The "White House of Hippiedom" was a legendary Marin County, California mansion that The Chose Family commune called home in the 1960s. (A Grateful Dead album cover photo was shot outside the house.)

In 1969, the house burned to the ground, exposing a pre-1834 Adobe home.

Excavation of the site began in 1997 but the discovery of asbestos led to the stuff being put into barrels and stored.

Now, researchers from the California Department of Parks and Recreation, aided by hazmat crews, are going through the barrels and finding a jumble of interesting pioneer artifacts and hippie detritus.

From the San Francisco Chronicle ( photo by Kim Jomenich/The Chronicle):
The artifacts from the Age of Aquarius were laid out Tuesday on a plastic sheet in an old barn in Marin County's Olompali State Historic Park.

There, stiff and rumpled from being in storage so long, was a leather jacket with a rainbow colored flower motif, some old boots, dozens of melted records, burned-out speakers, charred beads, monopoly pieces, soot-covered reel-to-reel tapes, pieces of a porcelain toilet and beer cans - lots of beer cans...

No bongs have been found...

UK MPs to hide their expenses from Freedom of Information requests

From the "It's like Deja Vu all over again!" Department:

The Open Rights Group says, "Harriet Harman MP plans to use a special parliamentary order that can become law within 24 hours after being debated by MPs and peers next week. It will exempt details of all MPs' and peers' expenses from being disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act, and nullify all past requests by journalists and campaigners to get them published."
Harriet Harman, the leader of the house, is to use a special parliamentary order that can become law within 24 hours after being debated by MPs and peers next week.

It comes just as MPs were about to be forced, following a victory by campaigners at an information tribunal, to publish 1.2m expenses receipts, covering the period between 2005 and 2008.

In return the government is to increase the number of published categories, such as travel and accomodation, which detail where MPs used their expenses.


Now, why does this sound so bloody familiar?! Oh, yeah, I know they are taking a page out of the repugnican playbook for this crap.

Hair do or don't

It's official! I am not cutting my hair again!

Every time I get my hair cut I lose my senior discount for a week - I guess because all the white is cut off leaving only the gray.

I got it cut yesterday and today the nurse at my wife's doctor's office thought I was my wife's SON!

Then again, maybe that's a good thing.

(She was a new nurse, btw.)

Saudi man beheaded for killing compatriot

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have beheaded a Saudi man convicted of killing a fellow national after a dispute.

An Interior Ministry statement says Mushabeb Al-Ahmari was executed in the southern province of Asir.
He was convicted of killing a compatriot using a machine gun.
The statement did not explain the nature of the dispute.

Al-Ahmari was a minor when he was sentenced.
The statement said his execution was delayed until he came of age. It is not clear when he was sentenced.

The kingdom follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which people convicted of murder, rape and armed robbery can be executed with a sword.
This is the fifth execution this year.
In 2008, 102 people were beheaded.

Artist creates sensation by mocking EU nations

Caught this story on the BBC last night:

Is it a joke? A very expensive hoax? A sly, shockingly satirical look at the 27 nations that make up the European Union?
Whatever one's reaction, the new installation celebrating the Czech Republic's six-month presidency of the European Union has achieved the ultimate accomplishment of any piece of art: Create a sensation.
Today, the Czech deputy premier, Alexandr Vondra, came to Brussels to see for himself what the brouhaha at the EU's headquarters was all about.

"Entropa" - by David Cerny, a Czech artist who is no stranger to controversy - dominates the lobby of the EU's Justus Lipsius Building. Measuring 25 x 25 meters (yards) it shows the outlines of EU nations on a tubular grid showing each nation, warts and all
The artist says it is just tongue-in-cheek stuff.

His installation shows France as being on strike, Italy a land where soccer is an "auto-erotic system of sensational spectacle" and Germany laced by autobahns roughly in the shape of a Swastika cross.
The Netherlands is covered by floodwaters pierced only by minarets of mosques.
Polish clergy raise - Iwo Jima-style - the rainbow flag of the gay community in their arch-Catholic country.
And Sweden is - what else? - a box of prefab furniture.
Britain is completely absent, reflecting its traditional aloofness from European integration.

There has been one formal protest: from Bulgaria, which objects to being depicted as a squat toilet.

The Czech government says Cerny lied to them because he was paid euro50,000 ($65,870) to round up the works of European artists representing all 27 EU nations and create a joint project, according to Vondra.

Shrub to get 8,000-sqft office

In a total waste of our money ...

A federal agency will provide the shrub with an 8,000-square-foot office near his affluent Dallas neighborhood when he leaves the White House and returns to Texas.

Officials with the General Services Administration say the lease on the $311,000-per-year space begins this summer.
The lease will run 10 years.

Until that office is ready, the shrub will scheme from a 5,300-square-foot office.

The federal agency will pay for both offices, which are just a short drive from the shrub's $2.1 million home in the Preston Hollow area.

*****

The asshole should be ponying up for a broom closet himself (he does not need or deserve more space than that) out of the money he has stolen from the taxpayers over the last eight years. We should not be paying MORE to prop up his malignant ego.

More than 600 elephants found in Malaysian park

AP Photo


Researchers said they have found a surprisingly large elephant population in Malaysia's biggest national park after new survey techniques revealed a community of more than 600 animals.

The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society and Malaysia Department of Wildlife and National Parks estimated that there are 631 Asian elephants living in Taman Negara National Park in the center of peninsular Malaysia.
The survey showed Taman Negara to be "one of the great strongholds for Asian elephants in Southeast Asia," said Melvin Gumal, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's conservation programs in Malaysia.
"People were unsure of how many elephants lived in the park before our survey, although there were good reasons to think that the population was substantial," he said.

Asian elephants are endangered due to habitat loss and poaching; between 30,000 and 50,000 may remain in 13 Asian countries, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.
The Taman Negara protected rainforest jungle, known simply as the "Green Heart" by Malaysians, spans about 4,343 square kilometers (1,676 square miles) - roughly the size of Utah's Great Salt Lake.

Bomb scare at home of transit cop's parents

This is just plain stupid people! Threatening the family or the cop for that matter is not the way to get your point across. It only lands you in hot water.

Dateline: Napa, California,

About 50 people were evacuated from their homes after the parents of a former transit police officer charged with shooting an unarmed man found two suspicious packages on their porch.

The Napa County Sheriff's department says the parents of Johannes Mehserle found two packages on their porch Wednesday evening.
Bomb squad officers evacuated the neighborhood while trying to determine the contents of the packages.

When authorities could not determine what was inside, they destroyed them.
The residents were then allowed to return home.

Mehserle and his family have received death threats since the New Year's Day shooting of Oscar Grant. Mehserle is a former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer.

He was arrested on a murder charge Tuesday, in Nevada.

Museums in the South

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Who says you can't find culture in the South? One look at what the nine state Southeastern area has to offer throws that notion right out the proverbial window.


Whether your tastes run to Renaissance and Baroque or Modern and Pop-art, the museums here all have a lot to offer. Grand masters like Manet, Modigliani, Picasso, Van Gogh, and Rembrandt are represented as well as local and regional artists making names for themselves. Much of the artwork you'll see when visiting are part of permanent collections and most museums feature temporary, traveling exhibitions. Check their individual websites to find out what's currently planned as well as to learn about their hours, prices (if any), and location.

Take a trip to the South ... You just may return home with a "cultured personality."

Alabama
Statewide Museum Information

Featured Museum:
Birmingham Museum of Art

2000, 8th Avenue North, Birmingham, AL

The Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) is the largest municipal museum in the Southeast. It houses a permanent collection of national significance that includes over 21,000 works of art dating from ancient to modern times. The collection offers a diverse selection of artworks from Western (Renaissance to present) and non-Western cultures, the latter encompassing the largest and most comprehensive collection of Asian art in the Southeast. A multi-level outdoor sculpture garden enables art to be seen indoors and outdoors in a continuous flow. The museum also has a large and growing collection of African, Native American, and Precolumbian art.

Alabama
Windy Winter Night - 1940
Watercolor on paper by Charles Burchfield
Birmingham Museum of Art

Florida
Statewide Museum Information

Featured Museum:
Orlando Museum of Art

2416 North Mills Avenue, Orlando, FL

The Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) features significant collections of American art, art of the ancient Americas, and African art. Gifts of American paintings by Charles Sheeler and Georgia O'Keeffe began the OMA's American Art Collection in the 1960s. In the 1970s, the OMA received a large donation of art of the ancient Americas and a small African collection, which became the foundation for their current and growing Art of the Ancient Americas and African Art Collections.

The continued emphasis on collecting art and the growth of its collections led the OMA to change its focus from an art center to an art museum and to change its name in 1986 from Loch Haven Art Center to the Orlando Museum of Art. The OMA has since received numerous important donations of art and continues to expand its collections through the generosity and support of the community.

Florida
Great Blue Heron - 1834
Engraving and aquatint on paper by John James Audubon
Orlando Museum of Art

Georgia
Statewide Museum Information

Featured Museum:
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia

From a stately home on Peachtree Street to its current award-winning buildings in a spectacular setting, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta has grown to become the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States with its renowned collection of classic and contemporary art and renowned architecture by Richard Meier and Renzo Piano.

The High Museum of Art strives to bring art education experiences to people of all ages throughout the Atlanta metropolitan area and beyond. The High serves the community through a wide range of both off-site and on-site programs.

Georgia
Tree of Life - 1928
Oil on canvas by Max Ernst
High Museum of Art

Kentucky
Statewide Museum Information

Featured Museum:
The Speed Art Museum

2035 South Third St., Louisville, KY, USA

Established in 1927, the Speed Art Museum is Kentucky’s oldest and largest art museum with over 13,000 pieces in its permanent collection. Its extensive collection spans 6,000 years, ranging from ancient Egyptian to contemporary art.

The museum has distinguished collections of 17th century Dutch and Flemish painting, 18th century French art, Renaissance and Baroque tapestries, and significant holdings of contemporary American painting and sculpture.


Mademoiselle Pogany - 1913
Polished bronze by Constantin Brancusi
The Speed Art Museum

Louisiana
Statewide Museum Information

Featured Museum:
New Orleans Museum of Art

One Collins C. Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA

Opened in 1911 as the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art has grown into a cultural, recreational and educational resource which serves the City of New Orleans and the Gulf South. Ranked in the top 25 percent of the nation's 140 largest and most important art museums, NOMA's mission is to preserve and present a representative survey of the finest art mankind has produced, from antiquity to the present — extraordinary art from every century and every culture.

NOMA has expanded from an inaugural exhibition in 1911 of 400 works to the present permanent collection of more than 40,000 objects. The collection, noted for its extraordinary strengths in French and American art, photography, glass, African and Japanese art, continues to grow. In 1993 the Museum completed a $23 million expansion and renovation project, doubling its size.

Louisiana
Portrait of a Young Woman - 1918
Oil on canvas by Amedeo Modigliani
New Orleans Museum of Art

Mississippi
Statewide Museum Information

Featured Museum:
Mississippi Museum of Art
380 South Lamar Street, Jackson, MS

The Mississippi Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the state of Mississippi. Now located in a new facility in downtown Jackson, the Museum has something to offer everyone, from world class exhibitions, to summer camps for children, to adult enrichment seminars.

The MMA is home to the world's largest collection of art created by and relating to Mississippians and their diverse heritage. The collection is also notably strong in 19th and 20th century American landscape paintings, 18th century British paintings and furniture, Japanese prints, pre-Columbian ceramics and Oceanic art, photographs and folk art.

Mississippi
Onion Soup Can, c. 1965
Silkscreen by Andy Warhol
Mississippi Museum of Art

North Carolina
Statewide Museum Information

Featured Museum:
North Carolina Museum of Art

2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC

The state's art collection spans more than 5,000 years, from ancient Egypt to the present. The ancient collection includes Egyptian funerary art and important examples of sculpture and vase painting from the Greek and Roman worlds. The collection of European paintings and sculpture from the Renaissance through Impressionism is internationally celebrated with important works by Giotto, Sandro Botticelli, Raphael, Anthony van Dyck, Peter Paul Rubens, Antonio Canova, and Claude Monet. American art of the 18th and 19th centuries features paintings by John Singleton Copley, Thomas Cole, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and William Merritt Chase. Modern art includes major works by such American artists as Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Franz Kline, Frank Stella, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Murray, and Joel Shapiro. Modern European masters include Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Delvaux, Henry Moore, Anselm Kiefer, and Gerhard Richter. Galleries are also devoted to African, Ancient American, and Oceanic Art, as well as Jewish ceremonial art.

North Carolina
Two Nude Figures in a Landscape - 1913
Oil with wax on canvas by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
North Carolina Museum of Art

South Carolina
Statewide Museum Information

Featured Museum:
The Gibbes Museum of Art

135 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC

The Gibbes Museum of Art maintains approximately 10,000 objects that directly support its mission to "collect, conserve, and interpret an American fine arts collection with a Charleston perspective." This includes objects that reflect the distinct patronage of the region. The strength of the collection lies in its 18th, 19th and early 20th century paintings, works on paper (prints, drawings, watercolors, photographs), miniature portraits, and sculpture. The objects in each medium reinforce the history of Charleston as an important colonial and antebellum city, and today as a tourist destination.

South Carolina
Argus and Mercury
Wood-block print by Otto Neumann
The Gibbes Museum of Art

Tennessee
Statewide Museum Information

Featured Museum:
Cheekwood Museum of Art

1200 Forrest Park Drive, Nashville, TN

Cheekwood, the private home and 55-acre estate of the Cheek family, provides visitors with a unique experience of art and gardens. Completed in 1932, Cheekwood first opened to the public in 1960.

The Museum of Art is located in the former Cheek mansion. Built of limestone quarried from the property, The Museum is a fine example of Georgian-style architecture. The Museum of Art recently reopened after extensive renovation and hosts four major exhibitions yearly.

The Cheekwood Museum of Art actively collects American Art, European and American Decorative Arts and Contemporary Art. Strengths of the 8,000+ collection include American paintings of the Ashcan School ("The Eight"), Worcester Porcelain, American and related Silver, post-WWII prints and photographs, and sculpture by self-taught Tennessee artist William Edmondson.

Tennessee
Portrait of Andy, n.d.
Oil on canvas by Jamie Wyeth
Cheekwood Museum of Art

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