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Ben Shahn’s Jersey Homesteads mural

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Photo by Colin Miller Universally hailed as one of the most important American artists of the 20th century, Ben Shahn made paintings, posters and photographs that are exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. Quite remarkably, one of the Lithuanian-born social realist’s most famous works, a colorful, 45-foot-wide mural depicting the Jewish immigrant experience and the American labor movement, can only be seen on the wall of a tiny public school with 73 students in the Monmouth County borough of Roosevelt. Shahn’s famous fresco, known as the Jersey Homesteads mural, was among the thousands of works commissioned nationwide under...

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Funding Arts Broward’s A Night at the NSU Art Museum Featuring a Virtual Tour of “The World of Anna Sui” 4/19/21

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Funding Arts Broward’s A Night at the NSU Art Museum Featuring a Virtual Tour of “The World of Anna Sui” Monday, 04/19/2021-, 05:30 pm-06:30 pm RSVP / Register Cost: Free Funding Arts Broward (FAB), leading arts ambassadors in Broward County, will present A Night at the NSU Art Museum, a virtual program, on Monday, April 19, at 5:30 p.m. Hosted by Bonnie Clearwater, FAB member and director and chief curator of NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, this free “friend”raiser program will feature a tour of the museum’s newest exhibit, “The World of Anna Sui.” The presentation will also introduce “Eric...

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