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W Magazine – Diplomatic Dash

W Magazine – Ambassador James Costos and his partner, White House decorator Michael Smith, are zhushing up the U.S. Embassy in Madrid with visionary art – The decorator Michael Smith is an excitable kind of guy, and as he walks around the residence at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid pointing out some of the artworks […]

The Ties That Bind

Art in Embassies in Ottawa: The Ties that Bind. When Vicki Heyman and her husband, U.S. Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman, want to get away for a few days, they head to Montreal to shop, eat and relax. “We’ve gone on our own, taken our friends and have been in Montreal on business. I just […]

The Art Newspaper-Idris’s Diplomatic Art

The Art Newspaper – the Birmingham born artist Idris Khan is in demand: Art in Embassies, the public art programme founded by the US government which places works in US consulates worldwide, has commissioned a new work by the ubiquitous London based wunderkind. The piece, a stamp painting incorporating English text and Arabic calligraphy, is […]

American artists fêted in Madrid

Artists honored at the AIE exhibition in Madrid – White House interior designer Michael S. Smith and his partner, US Ambassador to Spain James Costos, opened their newly decorated Madrid residence to visiting American art heavyweights last week. The dinner honored Studio Museum in Harlem director Thelma Golden, Glenn Ligon and Chicago-based Theaster Gates, visiting […]

Thelma Golden (left) and Glenn Ligon (right)

Art That Crosses Borders

Art That Crosses Borders – Bringing together different cultures under one roof is something art museums do well. They know how to hang an ancient Indian watercolour beside a Canadian photograph, or place works by a French Impressionist, a Russian, an Italian and a Dutchman in the same room. So it seems perfectly fitting that […]

Conversations: Theaster Gates, Glenn Ligon in dialogue with Thelma Golden

Reina Sofia hosts first AIE Madrid Conversations series – This activity gets a new series of dialogues and lectures termed conversations under way. The conversations complement the encounters and seminars, but also differ from these programs through an approach that does not centre on the specific research conducted by the Museo, instead aiming to open […]

Glenn Ligon, Theaster Gates and Thelma Golden at Reina Sofia

Call for artists – Art in Embassies Bern

Call for Artworks: Art in Embassies: The Intersection between Art, Science, Technology and the Environment – The U.S. Embassy Bern, in cooperation with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, announced the opening of a competition for Swiss artists on the theme of the intersection between art, science, technology and the environment. The selected works will […]

Contemporary Conversations Series

Art in Embassies and U.S. Embassy Ottawa Partner with National Gallery of Canada on Contemporary Conversations Series The Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies (AIE) and U.S. Embassy Ottawa are pleased to announce the launch of the Contemporary Conversations series. This new partnership with the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) will feature a […]

Ottawa Contemporary Conversations 2015 artists

Clinton Courier – Local Painter Uses Art to Bring Awareness to Environmental Issues

Clinton Courier – Jenna North, an artist currently living in Utica, used the Maldives ecosystem as a theme for her works currently on display at the Kirkland Art Center’s “Telluric” exhibition. An adult Oriental Sweetlips fish flutters along a vibrant coral reef in the Indian Ocean, just below the island nation of The Republic of […]

SPAN Magazine – Art as Ambassador

SPAN Magazine – Art as Ambassador – Five decades strong, the Art in Embassies program builds bridges within communities around the world. For Virginia Shore, international diplomacy is about more than treaties and trade agreements, speeches and summits. Rather, when it comes to building bridges between nations, paintings, drawings and sculptures are her tools of […]

The Diplomatist – The Power of Art

The Diplomatist – THE POWER OF ART: CELEBRATING THE 2014 DEPARTMENT OF STATE MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS – “There are many ways to trumpet the virtues of an open society, but none as subtle, as compelling, or as elegant as well-chosen art.” Sec. Kerry January 21, 2015 Last week the Department of State awarded the […]

Art of Healing – Saluting the Heroes

Art of Healing – Saluting the Heroes – Moosa Badar Al Balushi’s face lit up when Greta C Holtz, US ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, congratulated the visually challenged sculptor for displaying two of his excellent works at the ‘Art & Healing’ show at the Ambassador’s residence. “Thank you for inviting me for the […]

Collaborative Engraving Project With Jenny Holzer

The Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies (AIE) is pleased to announce its partnership with distinguished American artist Jenny Holzer on a collaborative sculptural project to be featured at the new U.S. Embassy in London, scheduled to open in 2017.

Highlands Today – SFSC curator’s artwork to be displayed in West Africa

Highlands Today – The artwork of Mollie Doctrow, curator of South Florida State College’s Museum of Florida Art and Culture, will soon be seen by people in the Republic of Niger in West Africa as part of the U.S. Department of State’s Art in Embassies program. Four of Doctrow’s woodcuts will be part of an […]

Luxe. Chief Curator Virginia Shore

“There’s always a way to transcend boundaries in the art world,” says Virginia Shore, deputy director and chief curator for Art in Embassies in Washington, D.C. “The key is figuring out how.” Launched in 1953 by The Museum of Modern Art, the program, which places works in United States embassies, consulates and annexes across the […]

A New Monrovian Story

A New Monrovian Story – Story is a three-part artwork created by Workingman Collective members Tom Ashcraft and Peter Winant over the course of two years. At its core, the commission considers the relationship of play, learning and building community across generations, linking the United States Embassy and the greater Liberian Community In May of […]

Working Man collective members Tom Ashcraft and Peter Winant with Alice and Maud and their quilts

Tadias Magazine – – American Artist Lecture: Julie Mehretu at Tate Modern in London

Tadias Magazine – Ethiopian born American painter Julie Mehretu is featured in the upcoming fifth American Artist Lecture Series at the Tate Modern in London on September 22, 2014. “This series seeks to bring the greatest living modern and contemporary American artists to the UK.” The program is a partnership between Art in Embassies, Tate […]

Global Platform for African American Voices

Global Platform for African American Voices – The paintings and drawings of two African American artists, Houston-based Robert Pruitt and Sanford Biggers, are currently showcased at the American embassy in South Africa through the Art in Embassies program. Pruitt and Biggers, along with two other South African artists, were handpicked for this prestigious opportunity. The […]

Students line up to help cut stencils for the art project - Pretoria

Pretoria U.S. Embassy – U.S. Embassy Pretoria – The Art in Embassies Program Brings South African and U.S. Artists Together

Pretoria U.S. Embassy – On June 5, 2014, U.S. Ambassador Patrick Gaspard welcomed a delegation of American and South African artists to Cape Town to engage with local communities through the medium of art. The trip was sponsored by the State Department’s Art in Embassies program in order to bring the arts alive for local […]

Thai NEWS

Thai NEWS – US Ambassador to Laos Daniel A Clune, and wife Judy Clune, welcomed Lao artists, government officials, and members of the diplomatic community to their residence on May 13 to officially open the US Art in Embassies (AIE) weaving exhibition at the ambassador’s residence in Vientiane, according to Lao News Agency. The exhibition […]

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