Will the family coat of arms being prepared for Colin Powell reflect his role as a federal arts But we happen to know (from a press release) that next week Secretary of State Powell and You probably didn’t know the State Department A sculpture exhibition, “Around the World in Forty Years,” highlighting American artists who Oh by the way, the idea of wanting to have a family coat of arms seems a little creepy to us. It Will the family coat of arms being prepared for Colin Powell reflect his role as a federal arts patron? Not according to a report that the family crest he’s requested from the Lord Lyon, “which bestows coats of arms in Scotland,” will have a banner saying “Devoted to Public Service” instead of “Devoted to Public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-bd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\npatron? Not according to a report that the family crest he’s requested from the Lord Lyon, “which
\nbestows coats of arms in Scotland,” will have a banner saying “Devoted to Public
\nService”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> instead of “Devoted to Public Service for the Arts.”<\/P>
\n
\nthe U.S. State Department are to celebrate 40 years of the ART
\nin Embassies Program<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, with help from the White House and Laura
\nBush. Fat cats — sorry, art collectors — have been invited to a panel discussion, “Art as
\nDiplomacy: 21st Century Challenges,” co-sponsored by the State Department and the independent
\nCenter for Arts and Culture based in Washington. <\/P>
\n
\nnearly 200 American embassies and diplomatic
\nresidences<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> from Abidjan, the Ivory Coast (where a single silkscreen by
\nJacob Lawrence is currently on display), to Zagreb, Croatia (where the exhibition comprises 17
\npaintings, sculptures or photographs by seven artists). Well, now you know.<\/P>
\n
\nhave loaned works to the ART in Embassies Program over the years, also will be on view at the
\nState Department in Washington (through July 6). The biggest names in the art biz have had their
\nworks exhibited over the years, among them: Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, Isamu Noguchi,
\nClaes Oldenburg, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith and Robert Wilson.<\/P>
\n
\nsmacks of, well, royalist pretensions. But never mind. In this great democracy of ours, an
\nimmigrant nation of the tired, the poor, the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” it’s each to
\nhis or her own weirdness. (The Powell coat of arms will feature “a lion, an eagle, crossed swords
\nand four stars symbolizing [his] status as a retired four-star general.”)<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"