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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- KCEN_220206_01.JPG: The Kennedy Center
Vaccine Verification
Please have your photo ID and proof of vaccination ready
Verification required for entry into performances and events
- KCEN_220206_05.JPG: Welcome!
Attending an indoor event or performance? Please be prepared to show our staff:
(1) Your photo ID
(2) Your paper of digital proof of vaccination *
* Children ineligible for the vaccine, patrons with a medical condition, or those with or a closely-held religious belief that prevents vaccination must provide paper or digital proof of negative COVID-19 PCR test within the last 72 hours.
Visit Kennedy-Center.org/COVIDsafety for the full details of our safety policies.
- KCEN_220206_20.JPG: By entering the Kennedy Center, you agree that you will abide by the established safety guidelines and that you understand that no precautions are 100% effective and acknowledge that you accept any risk associated with your visit.
Please join us in taking the necessary steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19
- KCEN_220409_04.JPG: In the entrance plaza of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts stand two large bronze panels by German artist Jürgen Weber (1928-2007): "Amerika" and "War or Peace." The two pieces were created between 1966 and 1971 and were a gift from the Federal Republic of Germany in memory of John F. Kennedy. Weber was born in Münster (North Rhine-Westphalia) and studied art history and sculpture at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. He is well-known in Germany for his bold - and often controversial - sculptures, which stand in prominent public spaces all over the country. In addition to his monumental sculptures, many of them on religious themes, he was also known by generations of students who studied with him between 1961 and 1996 in the architecture department of the Technische Universität Braunschweig, one of the German Institutes of Technology.Weber's panels for the Kennedy Center - like his sculptures elsewhere in the world - are expressions of his strong personal thought and philosophy. The figures in the panels are endowed with robust physicality. In the panel entitled "Amerika," which stands outside the "Hall of States," Weber makes reference to United States history - begínning with the enlightenment ideals that gave birth to the new nation. He portrays American dynamism, the country's industrial strength, and the mixture of peoples and cultures. The complementary panel, called "Krieg oder Frieden," "War or Peace," stands near the entrance to the Kennedy Center's "Hall of Nations." Here, Weber evokes the horrors of war and the blessings of peace. On the side depicting peace, the artist includes a large group of fleshy musicians with the words "Jürgen Weber and His Band" at the lower edge of the panel. The panels are dated 24 December 1968, 21 July 1969. The artist's emotional and intellectual statements well deserve their prominent setting at the United States' national memorial to JFK.
The above was from https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/kul/sup/deu/was/kcj.html
- KCEN_220409_21.JPG: Jurgen Weber and His Band
- KCEN_220630_003.JPG: Don Quixote
Aurelio Teno
Bronze
Gift of Spain, 1976
- KCEN_220630_026.JPG: Don Quixote
Aurelio Teno
Bronze
Gift of Spain, 1976
- KCEN_220630_030.JPG: "Well might the enchanters rob me of my good fortune but never of my spirit or my will."
-- "Adventure with the Lions", Chapter XVLI Two, Miquel de Cervantes
- KCEN_220630_046.JPG: Untitled
Black aluminum by Eduardo Ramirez
gift of Colombia, 1973
Eduardo Ramirez (1923–2004) created the untitled sculpture installed in 1974 in the Center's gardens. Ramirez was a sculptor and painter who worked with geometric abstraction, pre-Columbian Incan designs, and post-colonial Hispanic themes. Although he experimented with other materials, he is mostly known for his iron work.
- KCEN_220630_047.JPG: Untitled
Eduardo Ramirez
Black Aluminum
Gift of Colombia, 1973
- KCEN_220630_053.JPG: Amerika
Bronze relief by Jurgen Weber
gift of Germany, 1971
Sculptor Jürgen Weber (1928–2007) was self-taught. His panels required more than 200 separate castings to complete, taking him four years to sculpt in plaster and another two years for a foundry in Berlin to cast the pieces.
War or Peace shows nude figures in various scenes representing war and peace, ranging from a bombed city with a figure clawing out of a bunker to figures dancing to music of the Greek goat-god Pan. Amerika contains symbols of contemporary science and commerce to show America's inner contrasts: democratic idealism, the competitive world of science and business, and the inner tensions arising from many viewpoints. Weber's art strives for stark simplification of natural forms, emphasizing the junctures of movement and emotional expression.
- KCEN_220630_057.JPG: Amerika
Jurgen Weber
Bronze Relief
Gift of Germany, 1971
- KCEN_220630_093.JPG: 12.24.68
1.21.69
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1968#December_24,_1968_(Tuesday)
December 24, 1968 (Tuesday)
* At 09:59 UTC (4:59 a.m. EST), after Apollo 8 astronauts Borman, Lovell and Anders flew past the Moon, became the first people to see its far side, and made minor course corrections, they fired the engines of the craft to begin mankind's first lunar orbit. Over the remainder of the day, the men circled the Moon ten times, each trip around taking about two hours, took photos of potential landing sites, and made two television transmissions to Earth. Anders photographed Earthrise, the view of Earth being viewed from the Moon. At the time of the photo, the Earth was seen at half phase, while the view from Earth was of a waxing Moon between quarter moon and a half moon. The second televised transmission from lunar orbit was set for evening in the United States (9:34 pm Eastern time, 6:34 pm Pacific, 02:34 UTC Christmas); at 9:57 p.m. Eastern, and with the greatest number of people up to that time listening, the three men took turns to read the first 10 verses of the Book of Genesis[89] with Anders starting out, "We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth....", followed by Lovell, and concluded by Borman, who finished the reading ("And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.") then told viewers worldwide "And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas – and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth."
* At 8:12 in the evening, Allegheny Airlines Flight 736 crashed while making an approach to Bradford, Pennsylvania as part of a multistop flight from Detroit to Washington, DC, killing 20 of the 47 people on board.[90][91]
* Born: Choi Jin-sil, South Korean film and TV actress, in Seoul (committed suicide, 2008)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1969#January_29,_1969_(Wednesday)
January 21, 1969 (Tuesday)
* A partial nuclear meltdown at the Lucens nuclear reactor, located in Switzerland near the town of the same name, happened after the reactor core suffered a loss-of-coolant accident.[59] In what is now rated as an International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) Level 4 incident, the cavern in which the reactor was housed sustained massive radioactive contamination but the surrounding area was not irradiated and the cavern was sealed off.[60][61][62]
* Jury selection began in New Orleans on the opening day of the first and only trial of a person accused of conspiracy in the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, as District Attorney Jim Garrison went forward with proceedings that followed the indictment of retired New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw.[63] A jury would find Shaw not guilty on all charges on March 1.[64]
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