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News Articles: art exhibits

Flannery O’Connor’s portrait of herself with a pheasant, on display with many other paintings by the author often touted as the finest writer of the Southern Gothic, on the grounds of the farm in Milledgeville where she spent her adult life.

Georgia writer Flannery O’Connor was also an artist. Here’s where her paintings were discovered

Andalusia, the farm where O'Connor spent her last years, is hosting an exhibit of 70 of her artworks, which had been hidden away for decades.

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U.K.-based artist Sarita Maharjan creates a portrait of late firefighter-paramedic Jerry Pacheco of Houston, Texas.

An art exhibit on the National Mall honors health care workers who died of COVID

Art curator Susannah Perlman, who lost her mother to COVID-19, created the Hero Art Project on the National Mall to eternalize the smiles of other health care workers lost to the pandemic.

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  • Olivia Hampton
White flags stand near the Washington Monument on Tuesday during installation of a temporary art exhibit on the National Mall. More than 630,000 flags are part of artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's <em>In America: Remember</em>, honoring Americans who have died of COVID-19.

More Than 600,000 White Flags On The National Mall Honor Lives Lost To COVID

The art installation, called In America: Remember, will be on display at the National Mall for more than two weeks. It honors the more than 660,000 lives lost to COVID-19 in the United States.

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  • Jonathan Franklin