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David Smith

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 21, 2026
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Jul 20, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 21, 2026 · David Smith

    David and Art - A Timeless Artist (opens the original)

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    Dolly Rebecca Parton was born in January, 1946 in a one-room cabin in a little settlement in Tennessee called Pittman Center.It was on the edge of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park and not far, at least as the crow flies, from the border of North Carolina. It wasn’t even incorporated as a town until 1974.She was the fourth of 12 children.Her father was a farmer mostly and her mother had the full-time job of raising those children.Her mother also instilled in her children a love for music,

  2. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · David Smith

    David and Art - A World Largely Disappeared (opens the original)

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    Back in the early 1930s, a national government agency called the Federal Radio Commission—which would become the Federal Communications Commission in 1934—stipulated that all recorded music being played on the air had to be clearly announced as such.That is, a station couldn’t play a record and let the listeners think it was a live performance. This was done in large part to protect the jobs of working musicians. Imagine that.The Commission said that “the use of ordinary commercial records in a

  3. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · David Smith

    David and Art - A Family Affair (opens the original)

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    In my guest room, there’s a framed poster from an exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art that happened back in 1992. The exhibit was called “Corot to Monet: The Rise of Landscape Painting in France.”It was a very impressive exhibit that showed how artists begin going out of the studio to paint, and were confronted with the realities of light, sky, trees, flowers, and fields.These artists created an entirely new genre of art: that of the landscape. Among other results, it helped usher in the impress

  4. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · David Smith

    David and Art - The Varieties of Modernist Experience (opens the original)

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    Last week we unpacked the idea of Modernism a little bit and saw how a French poet and critic named Charles Baudelaire sketched out some initial ideas about it back in the late 1850s. He’s often thought of as the first Modernist. Also emerging right around then was the new technology of photography. That was a bombshell to the visual arts. If realism was the goal, painting could not compete with photography and painters knew this. If you ever hear someone looking at a canvas say something like “

  5. Article · Aug 17, 2026 · David Smith

    David and Art - Thinking about Modernism (opens the original)

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    I know a lot of people are confused by what Modern art looks like sometimes. I know a lot of people, when they look at say, Picasso, let alone someone like Kandinsky or Malevich, feel like they're either missing something, or even maybe being suckered somehow. Jackson Pollock is an American artist that confuses, and even alienates, maybe half of the people who look at his artwork. Well maybe not half. But If you don't know what he's up to, having the reaction "My kid could paint this!" is perfec

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