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“It’s All in the Details” at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas

The Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) has opened a new exhibition titled “It’s All in the Details,” featuring approximately 50 works from its permanent collection, many of which have never been exhibited before. The show spans contemporary fine art and Mexican folk art, highlighting intricate techniques and the need for close viewing. Key works include Shawne Major’s mixed-media piece “Syzygy” (2022), Marcelino Eduardo Sánchez Rodriguez’s feather-based “Viva Mexico” (2009), and Mary McCleary’s densely layered collage “The Clouds Grew So Dense, She Couldn’t See” (2015), which had been hanging in the museum’s intern office for years.

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article news schedule Aug 29, 2025 visibility 1 link 5 artists

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The Department of Homeland Security under Donald Trump's second term has been using social media to post artworks like John Gast's 1872 painting 'American Progress,' which allegorizes Manifest Destiny by depicting Native Americans being forced out. The Thomas Kinkade Foundation is considering legal action over unauthorized use of Kinkade's work. Separately, a course titled 'Generative AI for Artists' at the University of New South Wales in Australia has sparked student protests, with over 7,000 signatures on a petition demanding its cancellation. Meanwhile, arts organizations in New South Wales received $15.4 million in state funding, and a dust storm at Burning Man destroyed Oleskiy Sai's inflatable sculpture 'Black Cloud (2025).'

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article news schedule Jul 31, 2025 visibility 1 link 2 artists

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The Thomas Kinkade Family Foundation has publicly condemned the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for using Kinkade's painting *Morning Pledge* in a July 1 social media post on X that included the phrase “Protect the Homeland.” The foundation stated it did not authorize the use of the artwork and that the post promotes division and xenophobia, which is antithetical to its mission. It has requested the post's removal and is consulting legal counsel. This follows similar complaints from artist Morgan Weistling, whose painting *New Life in A New Land* was used by DHS without permission, and criticism over DHS's use of John Gast's *American Progress* (1872), owned by the Autry Museum of the American West.

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