Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- I noted in some previous posts that I visited the Guggenheim Gallery of Western Art, part of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming in September. It's an impressive complex in what is considered the eastern gateway to Yellowstone National Park. Its Web site is here, and an article about its recent re-installation is here (caution: this page might...
Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- Have you ever had the opportunity to examine original illustration art by N.C. Wyeth, one of the most famous American illustrators of the early 20th century? You probably have that opportunity if you live in the Philadelphia-Wilmington region because Wilmington's Delaware Art Museum and the Brandywine River Museum in Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania have examples...
October 22 - 25, the Booth Western Art Museum will host the 7th Annual Southeastern Cowboy Festival and Symposium, the South's largest celebration of Western art. Special guests for this year's event include artist Buck McCain and cowboy poet Baxter Black. The weekend begins Thursday evening, October 22 with a lecture by McCain, a fifth generation rancher equally well known for his paintings and sculpture....
CODY - As noon approached on Saturday, a chaotic scene in the parking lot of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center slowly became more organized, with dancers in the 28th Annual Plains Indian Museum Powwow lining up for the Grand Entry. But the chaos ling ...
CODY - It took less than three years for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to complete their historic expedition, but Billings artist Charles Fritz has spent much of the past decade retracing the route and creating 100 paintings illustrating the jour ...
Moving the Morans: a monumental task. Photo by Gene Young. Staff at the museum has been working all week to carefully orchestrate moving a suite of monumental landscape paintings by Thomas Moran out of the Grand Salon at the museum's...
CODY - Though entertainer Val Geissler has won widespread acclaim for his guitar playing, singing and cowboy poetry, he doesn't consider himself the focus of his performances. "I just happen to be the person on the stage. The real stars of the show ar ...
CODY - Advance reservations by tourists planning to visit the greater Yellowstone region this summer are below last year's levels, but industry leaders say they are optimistic that strong last-minute bookings will bolster the season. A weak national e ...
BELFRY - A pair of golden eagles found nesting near the site of road construction has brought a halt to blasting until June, delaying completion of work to remove loose rocks from a steep slope above Highway 72. A crew from Riverside Contracting had b ...
That's what Bruce Eldredge, Executive Director and CEO of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, WY, said in justification of the $190,000 he received to digitize and edit "the Cody collection" in Congress' 2009...
CODY - The Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody is facing financial challenges. Visitation has declined in the past year and the museum's endowment has diminished by 35 percent, according to CEO Bruce Eldredge. ...
The Heritage Foundation has released a partial list of the “pork” projects housed in the 2009 Omnibus Bill. Are there any from your home town or state? Sadly, there is from [...]
This morning, the DC Examiner, a beltway newspaper, featured an interesting editorial about President Obama's rhetoric versus actions on earmarks. The editorial highlights a question from Time Magazine, "Does Obama...
After passing its $787 billion spending bill under the guise of “stimulus” and then attending President Obama’s “fiscal responsibility summit,” the House has approved a bonus hike in the 2009 budget for most domestic agencies of 8%. The vote on this “omnibus” bill gives federal programs an extra $32 billion to spend for the seven months left [...]
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