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Through all the seasons of 2021 and 2022, a group of talented painters has been capturing the beauty of Franklins public park system in watercolors, acrylics, and oils.

On November 11, The Chestnut Group and Friends of Franklin Parks will unveil the collection of works as part of Painting the Parks, a fundraising art show and sale to be held at the Eastern Flank Battlefield Park Event Center at 1368 Eastern Flank Circle in Franklin.

The Chestnut Group, a non-profit collective of artists who have been painting to preserve in Tennessee for more than two decades, paints the landscapes of middle Tennessee en plein air, or outside in the environment. They then sell their paintings to support efforts to protect and enhance these cherished lands. This year, they partnered with Friends of Franklin Parks to present an art show and sale beginning Friday, Nov. 11, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and continuing Saturday, Nov. 12, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 13 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Nearly half of the net proceeds will benefit Friends of Franklin Parks, and the remainder to support the artists and The Chestnut Group organization.

The mission of The Chestnut Group aligns perfectly with the efforts of Friends of Franklin Parks, as our members are passionate about protectng the natural and historical landscapes of Middle Tennessee, said Brenda Coldwell, who is co-chairing the PainXng the Parks event with Karen Philpo]. As plein air painters, we are dedicated to preserving public spaces and the 900 acres of parkland in Franklin, Tennessee, provide a spectacular range of subjects to capture.

Chestnut members have captured scenes and the seasons at several of Franklins most beloved parks, including Harlinsdale Farm, Fort Granger, Eastern Flank, Pinkerton, and more in preparation for the show, which will feature more than 100 works. Visitors can expect to see a variety of landscapes, historic structures, wildlife, and engaging natural scenes. Several paint-out events, where Chestnut Group members gather in a specific part of the park to paint, have been held since 2021 and throughout 2022, and the pieces will allow a]endees to see these moments captured through the artists eyes and talents.Friends of Franklin Parks ExecuXve Director Torrey Barnhill cites the long legacy of artists working in the parks, including at the historic Hayes House at Harlinsdale that is now set to undergo a full restoration.

Art is a central component of our plans at the Hayes House, and we are thrilled to have been selected as a beneficiary by The Chestnut Group, Barnhill said. Dollars raised from the PainXng the Parks event will be directed to a range of enhancements to public spaces, from the inclusive playground Ellie Gs Dream World to the restoration work at Harlinsdale and our efforts to continue expanding our trails and greenways.

The exhibit/art sale is free and open to the public, November 11-13, 2022, at the Eastern Flank Ba]lefield Park Event Center at 1368 Eastern Flank Circle in Franklin, with plenty of parking available. For more information, click here.

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ASandro Botticellipainting of the Virgin Mary that was once owned by the late Microsoft cofounderPaul Allenwill be auctioned by Christies this November. The house expects that it will fetch more than $40 million, making it one of the most expensive works from Allens estate to head to sale.

In late August, the auction house made waves when it announced plans to sell $1 billion in art held by Allen. Among the works headed to sale are pieces by Claude Monet, George Seurat, Jasper Johns, and Paul Czanne. The sale proceeds will go toward philanthropic causes Allen established prior to his death in 2018 at the age of 65.

This is an image that defines the popular notion of Botticelli as an artist, Christies London-based Old Masters specialist Andrew Fletcher toldARTnews, describing the painting as imposing and intimate.

Measuring at 24 inches in diameter, Botticelli produced the painting, titledMadonna of the Magnificat,in the late1480s, at a time when his studio was thriving. Experts at Christies believe the panel was most likely commissioned by a well-off patron who intended to display it in a private residence for devotional purposes. A similar example by the Italian painter belongs to the Uffizi Galleries in Florence.

The work has been in Allens private collection since 1999, when he acquired it privately for an undisclosed price.

Madonna of the Magnificathas been widely shown in museum exhibitions. It last appeared in the 2020 exhibition Flesh and Blood: Italian Masterpieces from at the Seattle Museum of Art. Before it entered his collection, the painting was shown at Londons National Gallery on long-term loan from 1960 to 1978.

When they resurface on the market, Botticelli paintings can generate large sums. In 2020,Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundelsold from the collection of the late Sheldon Solow at Sothebys for a record-setting $92 million. This past January, BotticellisMan of Sorrows(ca. 1500), a portrait of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, sold for $45.5 million.

IfMadonna of the Magnificatreaches its estimate, it will be among the top three works by the artist to sell at auction.

According to Fletcher, the amount of significant works by Botticelli still held privately are tiny in number.

The Botticelli will appear alongside pieces by Seurat and Van Gogh that are estimated to sell for more than $100 million.

The Allen sale, Fletcher remarked, is poised to be a significant one for the Old Masters market. Botticelli is rubbing shoulders with the titans of 19th-and 20th-century art, he said. Its putting him and his work in front of collectors who may not ordinarily have had their attention drawn in that direction.

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A painting of a Jamaican man that has been hidden away from public view for years has been identified as a work by Richmond Barth, a key figure within African American art history.

The painting, titled Seated Man in a Landscape, dates back to the 1950s, during a period when Barth was based in Jamaica. But art historians did not know that he was the author of the work because the attribution was incorrectly transcribed, according to the National Trust, the U.K. organization that announced the new research done on the painting.

The National Trust plans to put the piece on view at Belton House in Lincolnshire starting on Thursday. The paintings display is meant to coincide with Black History Month in the U.K.

Belton House, which owns the work, has never before put the piece on display. The National Trust said it did not know how the work had arrived at Belton House in the first place, although the organization speculated that it may have been acquired by Perry Brownlow, who lived from 1899 to 1978 and had a vacation home in Jamaica.

The late art historian Margaret Rose Vendryes, an expert in Barth, conducted the research on the painting in collaboration with Alice Rylance-Watson, an assistant curator at the National Trust. Together, they also identified the paintings sitter as Lucian Levers, a worker at Barths studio in St. Ann Parish.

We are delighted to be able to identify Lucian Levers as the sitter as it can be difficult to name black individuals who appear in historic portraits, chiefly because of a lack of documentation, Rylance-Watson said in a statement.

Barth is best known as a sculptor of images of Black men, whose bodies he rendered in exacting detail. These works achieved fame during the mid-20th century in the U.S., and he moved to Jamaica to escape the violence he encountered in New York and the attention being lavished upon him countrywide. He also spent time in Haiti, where he designed coins and built a monument to Toussaint Louverture in Port-au-Prince.

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It can be hard to remember a time before smartphones and in particular the model that started it all. Apple's iPhone, which has probably replaced your computer, music player, calculator and approximately a billion other devices, first launched in 2007. Or is that 1860?

A nineteenth century painting has resurfaced featuring what very much appears to be a woman holding an iPhone. And while that obviously isn't what we're looking at, it's fun to imagine, right? (Check out the best iPhone 14 deals if you want to look as contemporary as her.)

The Expected One" by Austrian painter Ferdinand Georg Waldmller is doing the rounds right now, with social media users going wild for the hilarious illusion. The lady in 162 year-old painting is displaying all the hallmarks of a modern day smartphone user: both hands clutching the device, presumably messaging a suitor, eyes down, oblivious to the beautiful landscape around her and to the slightly creepy guy brandishing a flower in the foreground. There even appears to be a faint glow emanating from the 'screen' this must be an OLED model.

But of course, she isn't holding a prehistoric iPhone. According to Vice (opens in new tab), the painting was spotted at Munich's Neue Pinakothek museum earlier this year. "What strikes me most is how much a change in technology has changed the interpretation of the painting, and in a way has leveraged its entire context, he said.

So what's she holding? A prayer book, of course. The girl in this Waldmller painting is not playing with her new iPhone X, but is off to church holding a little prayer book in her hands, Gerald Weinpolter, CEO of the art agencyaustrian-paintings.at, told Vice.

Still, it's not the first time we've seen iPhones pop up in unusual places. Last year, the internet went wild when a supposedly unreleased model appeared in an Apple TV series but just like the lady looking at Tinder her prayer book, all was not quite as it seemed there either.

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The ever popular window painting contest hosted by The Womans Club of Madisonville will hit the streets of downtown Madisonville beginning October 21.

According to Nadean Young, last years Chairwoman for the event, they are hoping to lock in at least 250 storefront windows in the downtown business district.

This event started a long time ago, then it quit, and now it started back up again this year, Young said. People really like this event. It is a fun contest and it brings some great artwork to Main Street to celebrate Halloween.

The Womans Club posted their pre-registration link and flyer about the event on Facebook Wednesday afternoon, and just eight hours later it was closed, as it it completely filled up.

Current Chair for the Arts & Culture Committee of the Womans Club of Madisonville, Sandra Betts, shared that they are excited for this years event.

I am humbled and honored to have been chosen to fill this position this year, Betts said. In 2015, the Womans Club of Madisonville resurrected the fall event known as the Downtown Window Painting. Many adults in Hopkins County that had enjoyed this traditional activity years earlier as children themselves were the most excited to see this event return to the community. The Womans Club felt that by bringing back this event it would allow the club a new opportunity to invest its time, energy, and money. Better still, this project would also help to promote arts in the community. Many of the club members remember helping judge these contests in the earlier years of 1981-1996.

The Womans Club of Madisonville began by partnering with Downtown Turnaround and the City of Madisonville. This year they have added the support of Hopkins County Tourism as sponsors.

In 2015 we registered 118 students in K-8 grade. With growing interest, in 2018 we broadened the contest to preschool through 12th grade. In 2021 we registered 360 children painting on 232 windows. The downtown business owners have been the best at allowing us the opportunity to hold this event. They are always will to participate by donating the use of their windows.

According to Betts, one excited business posted on Facebook enjoyed watching the artists paint on my window last year and I wonder who would be painting this year?

This family friendly event will begin with painting at 2 p.m. on Friday, October 21, and must be completed by noon on October 22. The Club and its sponsors will provide a bucket with six colors of paint, a couple of brushes and dry erase marker. The guidelines will provide information on other items you might need to complete your drawing.

This is a service project for The Womans Club and we are proud to have such a great event that the community really enjoys, Young said.

Judging criteria and all other information and instructions can be found on The Womans Club of Madisonvilles Facebook Page. Online registration is closed, as 200 windows have already been preregistered for, however, be sure to check back online for more details to come.

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TCU is sending out invitations of sorts to the world to join in celebrating its landmark birthday in 2023.

Rather than stock, the university is using paint.

As part of the lead-up to TCUs 150thanniversary, the school is highlighting notable Horned Frog leaders who found their inspiration at TCU with a series of murals, hand painted in cities across America.

The larger-than-life artistic portraits will appear in select U.S. cities to recognize outstanding individuals who represent the power of TCUs alumnileading onin extraordinary ways in their chosen fields.

The first mural in the series was unveiled in New York City this week and features alumnusJohn Devereaux, currently touring with Hamilton.

John is amazing, and he represents what we believe is the power of all Horned Frogs: We find our passion and pursue it, says TCU Chancellor Victor J. Boschini Jr. in a statement. In corporations, in classrooms, in operating rooms and even on stages, youll find Horned Frogs leading on.

The mural series is part of TCUs new national brand campaign supporting its 150thanniversary theme Lead On: Celebrating 150 Years of TCU.

New commercialsfeaturing TCU students, faculty and staff are also debuting to promote its academic and campus experience. Streetlamp banners convey the powerful then and now connection between TCU leaders from yesterday and today with descriptors like Boldly, Compassionately and Authentically. Anaccompanying photo essaygoes deeper, telling the story of everyone represented on the banners.

Devereaux credits multiple experiences and people at TCU that prompted him to pursue a career in the performing arts. He says his life would have been different without the culture of connection at TCU and the support and encouragement from professors and classmates.

I am so grateful to everyone at TCU for nurturing and expanding my gifts, says Devereaux. It is so meaningful to be celebrated like this and to know that I am viewed as a leader in my community. I truly believe that the stage is a platform for joy. I stand on the shoulders of those who came before me, and I pray that my shoulders will be strong to hold those who will stand on mine.

The mural featuring Devereaux is 15 feet wide and 32 feet high. It is located on25thStreet between 6thand 7thAvenuesin Manhattan. The bold mural, painted in TCUs signature school purple, is accented with the sesquicentennial year creative featuring a prismatic purple sunrise gradient, and features a photo-realistic portrait of Devereaux and playful lettering featuring his inspiring quote: The stage is a platform for joy.

Last month, TCU students and administration used an opportunity to ring the final bell on Wall Street to promote its anniversary and mission.

The second mural location will be unveiled in Los Angeles in February and feature alumKatherine Beattie, a producer/writer forNCISand, as an adaptive sports athlete,the first woman to land a backflip using a wheelchair.

Other mural subjects and locations will be announced soon, with the final mural debuting in Fort Worth in fall 2023.

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Mary Lovelace ONeal at the On the Edge gala and afterparty for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco on Sept. 6 at the de Young Museum, honoring her and Guo Pei. Photo: Aaron Wojack / Special to The Chronicle

I offer three words to summarize what I loved about the Fine Arts Museums of San Franciscos On the Edge gala: Mary Lovelace ONeal.

The 80-year old Oakland artist, well known for her acclaimed Whales Fing painting series, was a guest of honor at the de Young Museum on Thursday, Oct. 7, along with Chinese couturier Guo Pei, the subject of the Legion of Honors current exhibition Guo Pei: Fantasy Couture. While the fashion designer was unable to attend the event due to Chinas pandemic-related travel restrictions, ONeal brought the gala dinner to its feet with her candor from the stage.

I thank all of you who have supported me lo these many years, and I thank those who supported my work even though they didnt like me or my work, but they felt it important to make a way for an African American, quite young artist, ONeal said to laughter.

FAMSF recently acquired ONeals 1990 painting titled Driskells Red Dogs aka I Live in a Black Marble Palace with Black Panthers and White Doves #8 from San Franciscos Jenkins Johnson Gallery. It will go on display at the de Youngs American collection gallery in the next few weeks. The work is an abstract explosion of color with red forms seeming to leap at the paintings center.

In his remarks honoring ONeal for her extraordinary art and her lifelong commitment to humanist values, Timothy Anglin Burgard, the museums curator-in-charge of American art, also evoked a gasp from the guests when he mentioned that ONeal had once dated famed civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael, illustrating the extraordinary swath of Black American history with which her work intersects.

My life as a painter aint been no crystal stair, but it has most certainly been worthwhile, ONeal said. No crystal stairs but not a single boring day in all my 80 years. That is what is important in a well-lived life: a place to make artwork, which should be called art labor. My art labor does indeed have a price, and if one doesnt want to pay that price, then that art labor is not for them.

The On the Edge gala arrived this year amid a packed fall season in the Bay Area visual arts world. It has included the opening of the new Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco in Dogpatch on Oct. 1, as well as a number of new museum and gallery shows. As FAMSF director and CEO Thomas P. Campbell joked, its a lot going on for a region that the New York Times recently characterized as having a struggling art market.

I think the death of the art scene in San Francisco is much overpredicted, said Campbell. Theres so much creativity here, new directors at several museums, Im looking to the city to blow it out of the water in the coming months.

In its second year, Campbell said, the On the Edge gala aims to celebrate the connection between historical and contemporary art that has been a hallmark of his tenure at the museums. Representing both of those themes were the Ramses the Great and Faith Ringgold exhibitions on view that night. In addition to ONeal, artists in attendance included Woody de Othello, Sadie Barnette, Catherine Wagner, Enrique Chagoya, Ranu Mukherjee, Rashaad Newsome and Lee Mingwei.

Sculptor de Othello, who lives in Oakland, will soon have his 2021 work Fountain installed in the sculpture garden at the museum. It is part of an acquisition of 42 works by contemporary Bay Area artists funded by the Svane Family Foundation. He, too, disagrees with the assessment that the San Francisco art scene is on the decline.

Theres something sincere about the Bay Area. People are making what they want to make. They dont pay attention to the trends, said de Othello. Its not homogeneous aesthetically; its a lot. Baby, were here!

Following the gala, the Late Night afterparty featured poems created by the Poetry Store, aura readings, sets from DJs Angel + Dren and DJ Christie, and a performance by percussive electronic musician Madame Gandhi, whose love of evening hours in museums goes back to her youth.

One of the most formative experiences of my childhood was when the movie Night at the Museum came out. The premiere was an overnight sleepover at the Natural History Museum, said the Oakland artist. We all slept under the blue whale and read From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (a book about children stowing away after hours in a museum). Being in a museum at nighttime when its closed to the general public, to be among the art, its a soulful experience for me.

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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) Many Las Vegas businesses and attractions will be hosting several events and celebrations this weekend to celebrate Las Vegas Pride 2022.

The Luxor pyramid will light up the night with tracer and Aurora lights reflecting rainbow colors from the weekend of Oct. 7 to 9.

The Park waterfall will be illuminated from Oct. 7 to 9 with rainbow colors in celebration of Pride.

MGM Grands Level Up will feature performances by RuPauls Drag Race queens Coco Montrese and Kimora Blanc, live body painting, and specialty Pride cocktails on Oct. 8. Admission is free, and the event will run from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.

New York-New York will hold different events throughout the weekend, including lighting up the Brooklyn Bridge in rainbow colors from Oct. 7 to 9.

The Eiffel Tower at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino will be lit in rainbow colors all evening on Saturday, Oct. 8. Light shows will still occur every 30 minutes before returning to the rainbow color scheme.

The High Roller wheel at the LINQ Hotel will be lit to celebrate Pride. The landmark, which towers 550 feet over the Las Vegas Strip, will don its special Pride lighting on Saturday, Oct. 8.

The Neon Museum will hold special talks on Friday, Oct. 7 through Sunday, Oct. 9 highlighting the history and impact of the LGBTQ+ community in Las Vegas. They begin at 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. each day. Additionally, the Neon Boneyard displays signs chronicling the impact of Las Vegass LGBTQ+ community and its fight for civil rights.

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(Good Things Utah) Look at you go! Youve finally gotten around to shampooing your floors! But whats this? Crunchy carpets? Thats not good

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