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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 15 January 2020
Colton Underwood of Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is

'Bachelor' fame has backdrop to U.S. humanities grants

memoir out March 31

NEW YORK (AP) — Paging
Bachelor Nation.
Colton Underwood, the for-
mer football tight end who
found true love and new
fame on Season 23 of "The
Bachelor" has a memoir
coming out March 31.
It's titled "The First Time,"
Gallery Books announced
Tuesday.
The publisher is calling the
book "unpredictable, hu-
morous, and inspiring" as This cover image released
Underwood reflects on by Gallery Books shows "The National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jon Parrish Peede announces $31 million
"growing up in Indiana, First Time: Finding Myself and in direct public grants to museums, historical sites and colleges across the country on
struggling with self-image Looking for Love on Reality Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M.
and bullying, two time all TV" by former NFL player and Associated Press
American and three years "The Bachelor" star Colton By MORGAN LEE Peede, a former liter- Learning Center.
Underwood.
in the NFL, and of course, Associated Press Associated Press ary magazine editor A digital anthology of
his journey to find love." In a SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The who served stints at the popular pre-Civil War
statement issued Tuesday before his professional foot- National Endowment for National Endowment hymns inspired by Euro-
by Gallery, Underwood ball career ended in 2016. the Humanities is seeking for the Arts under presi- pean composers will be
said, "I'm excited to share Three years later, he won to inspire private and lo- dents George W. Bush created under fellowship
my life in this book and over Cassie Randolph on cal matching investments and Barack Obama, an- awards to college and
hope it will give people "The Bachelor" after she ini- in cultural institutions as it nounced the new round university faculty.
more of an understanding tially resisted committing to designated $31 million in of 188 humanities grants Local humanities councils
of where I have come from him. (He broke off relation- public grants Tuesday to at a news conference in every state and ad-
and who I am today." Un- ships with two semi-finalists support humanities proj- in Santa Fe, flanked by ditional U.S. territories will
derwood, who turns 28 later for her). ects in 45 states. O’Keeffe’s iconic paint- disburse an additional
this month, tried out briefly Gallery Books is an imprint Federal funding for the ed images of flowers, an $48 million in federal mon-
for a handful of NFL teams of Simon & Schuster.q humanities is growing de- adobe church spire and ey. In Santa Fe, a hub for
spite repeated budget high-desert land and sky. collectors and creators
proposals from President The National Endow- of Native American art
Donald Trump that sug- ment for the Humanities with museums that ex-
gest closing down na- has begun aligning grant plore worldwide cultural
tional endowments for spending with topics of traditions, the O’Keeffe
the arts and humanities American history and civ- museum attracts an out-
— but haven’t. ics that tie into the up- sized annual audience of
Newly endowed grant coming 250th anniversary about 200,000 visitors to a
projects include $750,000 of U.S. independence. relatively small exhibition
in so-called challenge Peede said that hasn’t space — roughly the size
funding to add an exhibi- limited funding for proj- of a basketball court.
tion building and create ects that highlight pre- That keeps much of the
Mandy Patinkin, left, and Claire Danes participate in the a downtown campus for Columbian, indigenous museum’s growing col-
Showtime "Homeland," panel during the Winter 2020 Television the Santa Fe-based mu- civilization. lection of O’Keeffe works,
Critics Association Press Tour on Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, in seum devoted to the life Beyond infrastructure, writings and artifacts
Pasadena, Calif. and works of American the grants support new from her life cooped up
Associated Press modernist painter Geor- technologies in the hu- in archives and storage,
'Homeland' star Patinkin lauds gia O’Keeffe. Activating manities, including plans museum Director Cody
intelligence community the grant will require new for an augmented reality Hartley said. He envisions
matching private and lo-
app that recreates the a campus that brings to-
By LYNN ELBER tagion and cancer that cal government contribu- features of a 13th century gether several downtown
tions of at least $3 million city, commemorated to-
museum properties al-
AP Television Writer affects the world globally to the Georgia O’Keeffe day at Cahokia Mounds ready within a two-block
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) of going to war with the Museum. State Historic Site in Illinois. radius. “We’re still defin-
— The U.S. intelligence intelligence community ... “Generous donors love About half of the new ing that vision. But we’re
sector has a staunch de- the cost of that war is just to see their names on the grant spending tally is excited about programs
fender in "Homeland" star a stunner," Patinkin told a amphitheaters and exhi- earmarked for construc- like teacher education
Mandy Patinkin. During TV critics meeting Mon- bition halls, and the gov- tion projects that expand and summer school pro-
a panel discussion about day. Without referring to ernment can be the one the capacity of muse- grams,” he said. “The
the Showtime spy thriller's President Donald Trump by that puts in the HVAC sys- ums, historic sites, libraries, beauty of this is that with
final season, Patinkin deliv- name, the actor said "you tem, the fire-suppression colleges and universities. more space we can tell
ered a passionate speech can't have it both ways" in system — the essential but Recipients run the gamut the story of O’Keeffe’s
about the respect he said accepting the intelligence non-exciting elements,” from the Buffalo Bill Cen- life much more thor-
it deserves and isn't getting community's analysis when National Endowment for ter of the West in Cody, oughly, much more ad-
from the White House. desired but dismissing its the Humanities Chairman Wyoming, to the St. Louis equately using all of our
"To watch this current ad- findings on 2016 election Jon Parrish Peede said. Holocaust Museum and collections.”q
ministration, and the con- interference.q