https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2003.41 A square portrait of the famous actor Katherine Hepburn from 1982 has a timeless painterly quality of it. Suggesting an urgency to the portrait even though Ms Hepburn is sitting contemplatively looking into the distance. Reminiscent of a 'Hopper like' style from the mid century. I just bloody adored this portrait

Katharine Hepburn: Everett Raymond Kinstler (1982), National Portrait Gallery. Washington DC

Absolutely adorable portrait

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Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by Edgar Degas, a small sculpture encased in a glass box

detail of the hair & ribbon on Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by Edgar Degas

Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by Edgar Degas, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

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Row after row of US service men & women buried in a military cemetery across the Potomac River south of Washington DC in Arlington Virgina, with the US Capitol Building visible between blossom trees.

The headstone to astronaut & former US Senator John Glenn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn

Headstone of Ruth Bader Ginsberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg

A soldier stanging guard over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with rows of US veterans in wheelchairs watching in the background

We lived 2 stops from the Arlington National Cemetery, boy was it a solemn & fascinating place.

Paid my respects to astronaut John Glenn & Ruth Bader Ginsburg (I asked permission before walking over to his grave).

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A sculpture of poor people lining up outside a soup kitchen in DC created by sculptor George Segal https://www.nps.gov/places/fdr-memorial-fireside-chat-the-breadline-and-appalachian-couple.htm

Appalachian Couple created by sculptor George Segal

One of the many waterfalls in the FDR memorial park There are many water features, all with their own meaning. There’s the water feature comprised of one large drop, which depicts the crash of the economy that led to the Great Depression; multiple stair-like drops pay homage to the Tennessee Valley Authority dam-building project; there are chaotic falls at varying angles signifying World War II; and a still pool for Roosevelt's death.

Neil Estern's sculpture of Franklin Roosevelt and his dog Fala is just part of this large memorial. https://www.nps.gov/places/franklin-delano-roosevelt-memorial.htm

Breadline sculpture at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington DC.

This is just one of the sculptures at the FDR Memorial in DC which are organised in 'rooms'. One of the most wonderful park spaces in all DC. You should not miss this memorial

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Detail of stars on a memorial wall in Washington DC B&W image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_Memorial

Star Wall & reflecting pool at the World War II Memorial in Washington DC.

4,048 bronze stars, each representing 100 American service members who died in the war.

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The US Capitol building radiant in the late evening sunset against a warm tan sky view down Delaware AVE

Regardless of what's going on over there atm, I will never forget the moment we walked out of Union Station in Washington DC to be greeted with this view.

Amazing beautiful town that I plan on getting back for another sabbatical.

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The Jasper Johns US Flag without anyone in front Flag is an encaustic painting by the American artist Jasper Johns. It was created in 1954-1955, when Johns was 24, two years after he was discharged from the U.S. Army. This painting was the first of many works that Johns made, as he said, that were inspired by a dream of the U.S. flag in 1954. It is one of the paintings for which Johns is best known. It is held in the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_(painting)

Close up showing the encaustic layering over collage of newspapers

Detail of Flag (1954–55). Museum of Modern Art, New York. This image illustrates Johns's early technique of painting with thick, dripping encaustic over a collage made from found materials such as newspaper. This rough method of construction is rarely visible in photographic reproductions of his work.

Johns was only 24 when he did this encaustic painting of the US Flag. The encaustic technique allows for a translucent effect & demands you inspect it closer, which then reveals the mixed media with newspaper collage.

Just adore his work

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Two people standing in front of a painting of the US flag by my fav artists & US Abstract expressionist Jasper Johns

Flag: Jasper Johns 1954-55

My fav American artist's work at MOMA being inspected by some visitors.

Might be one of my fav pictures I've taken in a gallery too!

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Girl with Ball (1961) by American artist Roy Lichtenstein A pop art masterpiece Girl with Ball is a 1961 painting by Roy Lichtenstein. It is an oil on canvas Pop art work that is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, after being owned for several decades by Philip Johnson. It is one of Lichtenstein's earliest Pop art works and is known for its source, which is a newspaper ad that ran for several decades and which was among Lichtenstein's earliest works sourced from pop culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_Ball

Detail showing the incredible dot work used to resemble printing press techniques

Girl with Ball (1961) Roy Lichtenstein

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A modernists painting made with Walnut stain on canvas by French artist hanging in MOMA NYC Abstract black lines on a plain background

Pierre Soulages: Painting 1948-49

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Fascinating painter who died 2022 aged 102

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A detail of a painting in B&W

Detail of brushwork: Kazimir Malevich's White on White (1918) @ MOMA NYC

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Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918) is an abstract oil-on-canvas painting by Kazimir Malevich. It is one of the more well-known examples of the Russian Suprematism movement, painted the year after the October Revolution.

Kazimir Malevich's White on White (1918) @ MOMA NYC

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Some of the curved organic shapes & lines of the various stairs in the Eero Saarinen designed TWA Hotel TWA Hotel is a hotel at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York City, that opened on May 15, 2019.[3] It uses the head house of the TWA Flight Center, designed by the architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1962, and two flanking buildings added for the hotel project. It contains a total of 512 rooms, as well as conference space, several restaurants, and an aviation history museum. TWA Hotel was developed as part of a project to reuse the head house, which had stopped functioning as an air terminal in 2001. The site was developed by MCR Hotels, the third largest hotel owner in the United States. It is the only hotel operating within the boundaries of JFK Airport

I can't explain just how delightful Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Centre (now hotel at JFK in NYC) is.

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An old 2 story brick building with a sign I think for an old drug store - Coca Cola sponsored sign saying 'Prescriptions, Toys, Candies'. it's covered in Ivy on the side wall. there's a Subaru Grand Wagon (notorious for head gaskets blowing) parked up. I've used my 'Fake Aerochrome' filter here, which mimics the famous Kodak film stock that processed InfraRed light from the chloroform from the green in trees as shades of red!

& it wouldn't be Madison 'Subaru Capitol of the US' Wisconsin without a fake Aerochrome pic of some cool advertising & ivy all over the wall without a Subaru in the frame.

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A neon sign (sadly not on) saying Brew Pub / Pool with the Wisconsin State Capitol building in the background

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Madison Wisconsin, May 2024

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Multiverse is one of Villareal’s largest and most complex light sculptures. It is experienced by visitors as they pass through the Concourse walkway between the East and West Buildings. The work features approximately 41,000 computer-programmed LED (light-emitting diode) nodes that run through existing channels along the 200-foot-long space. The programming both instructs the lights and allows for an element of chance, so that it is very unlikely that any pattern will repeat during a viewer's experience. Development of this project began in 2005, and installation took place between September and December 2008.

I was going to clone out the guy at the end of the tunnel travelator, until I realise he looks like Christopher Walken dancing...

The tunnel is an installation in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC connecting old & modern art buildings.

Multiverse by Leo Villareal

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Top down view of the Air France Concord - the museum is so jam packed that planes are literally stuck in underneath this beast. A Boeing 707 is in the background

top view of the wing of the Concord

view of the fuselage & win of the Air France Concord

And the beauty of the Concord will never be surpassed.

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detail of the propeller & engine of the Sopwith F1 Camel

Side view of the biplane Sopwith Camel

At the other end of the air & space timeline is this insanely beautiful Sopwith Camel.

One of the most important planes of WWI

The restoration of this is a work of art.

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A set of some of the satellites NZer William Pickering was directly responsible for in the US space program

A collection of 'Uncle Bill' Pickering's satellites on display at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum annex at Dulles International Airport.

These hang above the Space Shuttle Discovery.

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An early rocket which was a huge leap forward in rocket technology. This led to the Mercury Program advances, then of course the Apollo moon program

One of the rockets my wife's great uncle's team designed.

William Pickering was not only a Kiwi legend but pivotal in the US Space program. Latterly heading the famous JPL in Pasadena California

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One of the propellers of Clipper Flying Cloud

A detail of the rivets & sections of polished chrome where the wing joins the fuselage

Underbelly of the fuselage of the Clipper Flying Cloud

Boeing Stratoliner Model 307, Pan AM's Clipper Flying Cloud

Polished chrome heaven.

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The Northrop HL-10 which actually did crash on a test-flight. The footage was used in the opening credits of the famous TV show The Bionic Man

Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man.

Northrop HL-10

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Space Shuttle Discovery in it's hanger with all manner of space stuff about in the air above, the walls, beside it

Rear view of the engines of the Space Shuttle Discovery

View of Space Shuttle Discovery from the entrance to the James S McDonnell Space Hanger

Side thrusters on the Space Shuttle Discovery close up detail

I literally walked through the doors as they opened & was ushered out at closing at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's annex at Dulles International Airport

I could have gone back for a whole second day there is that much in there. #SpaceShuttle #PaulUSA24

Some people in cosplay gear as a rookie & Princess Leia

On that note, May the 4th was a little underwhelming in our local neighbourhood, Roslyn Arlington across the Potomac River.

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One of the X-Wing fighters from Star Wars inside a museum - movie prop

A fighter jet, Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Washington DC

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From the top floor of this incredible museum looking down into the circular courtyard

Part of the Smithsonian institution, this incredible building was designed by Gordon Bunshaft opened in 1974

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The inner courtyard of the Hirshhorn Museum in DC - a circular building - B&W strong contrast image with bight areas & dark darks

Hirshhorn Museum, The Mall Washington DC

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A detail of the underside of the pedestrian bridge between 2 govt department buildings in DC. Intricate herring bone pattern of tiles.

Department of Agriculture bridge. Washington DC

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The wavy steel & double glazed canopy above the atrium between 2 historic buildings in Washington DC. Square format detail

The Kogod Courtyard Canopy between Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, by Foster + Partners in London

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A fountain inside the US Botanical Garden - a roundish shape but there's a hole in the bubble - sorry not sure how else to explain it

A fountain inside the US Botanical Garden - a roundish shape but there's a hole in the bubble - sorry not sure how else to explain it

& the fountains inside the Botanical Gardens are wonderful

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