May 15, 2013
A unique collection of war posters collected and curated by Tukufu Zuberi, a University of Pennsylvania professor, will open on June 2 at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. The exhibition, titled "Black Bodies in Propaganda: The Art…
January 14, 2013
An excellent profile of the artist Helen White ran recently in the Nevada (Missouri) Daily Mail . The article talks about White's work and how it was influenced by her service as a…
December 3, 2012
A dozen large oil portraits of veterans are now on view at the VA's New York City Museum, located on the second floor of the VA Regional office in Manhattan. The paintings, the work of…
November 5, 2012
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="334" caption="U.S. Marine, Hue, Vietnam, Feb. 1968 by Don McCullin"] [/caption] "WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath" is the name of a huge exhibition that opens on Veterans Day,…
October 29, 2012
"Coming Home: Helena Area Vietnam Veterans" is the name of photography exhibit that will be on view beginning November 9 at the Myrna Loy Center f or the Performing and Media Arts in Helena, Montana.…
October 24, 2012
Baynes McSwain, a native of San Marcos, Texas, was killed in action in Vietnam on October 10, 1968. McSwain received a posthumous Distinguished Service Cross for the extraordinary heroism he exhibited that day as a squad…
March 26, 2012
Tom Kindt Hubbard of Columbia City, Indiana, was two years old when his father, U.S. Marine Sgt. Thomas Patrick Kindt, was killed in action in Vietnam on September 21, 1966. A few years ago, Hubbard,…
March 14, 2012
Rolf Kriken, the acclaimed California sculptor who served in the U.S. Army from 1962-65, is best known creating all of the bronze sculptures at the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Sacramento, such as the ones…
January 15, 2012
"Fly Marines! The Centennial of Marine Corps Aviation: 1912-2012" is the name of a new exhibit that opened on January 14 at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum . The exhibit is made up…
April 22, 2011
The Prophecies art and antiques gallery, which is housed in a brownstone (townhouse) in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York, is owned and operated by a 63-year-old Army veteran, Lenny Goodstein. The gallery's…