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me to not only fight for what is right but to stand up and not be afraid to be who I am. One among the lengthy list of inspirations is Dorothy Porter Wesley. She was a researcher for black studies, an archivist, a historian, a bibliographer, and a curator for the Moorland-Spingarn Collection at Howard University. Wesley is an inspiration to me for the fact that

The symposium then explored the relationship between the body and the city’s building in more depth with Adam Greenhalgh’s paper Body/Building: New York City around 1910. The associate curator of the National Gallery of Art in Washington presented once more Manhattan as a living body, and his interpretation of Excavations at night as an autopsy of the city conveys a powerful image of the city being exposed and vulnerable like Miss Bentham. Mr Greenhalgh confessed that he tends to see the grim side

from Argentina, Colombia, México, Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil among many other places and intertwined aesthetic refinement and brutality of political and social realities of Latin America. Curated by Mari Carmen Ramirez one of the top Latin American Curators the exhibition features both curatorial and theoretical strategies to construct an argument that ask the audience to think about the idea of what beauty is or isn't using a Latin American perspective. Throught the exhibition viewers are presented

out like any other day. I had been working at the Charlotte Fine Art Gallery for over 6 months now. Before my College Graduation I had worked for the Fine Art Gallery as an Internship the previous summer when they asked me to consider a full time curator position upon graduation. Debra Collin, owner, of the prestigious gallery wanted a fresh new eye for up and coming artists locally and nationally. She was a tough, sophisticated North Carolina socialite who had a passion for art but a stronger desire

The International Pop Exhibition currently on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art offers a variety of work produced from artists across the world. Pop art, which is the subject of the exhibit, rose to prominence in Great Britain through the International Group in the late 1950s. It was an art movement that is categorized as utilizing popular culture and challenging high, intellectual art that was the prominent from past decades. It was a change in attitudes among new artists who played with

According to the film critic, Phillip French, “The Western has always been about America rewriting and reinterpreting her own past,” if this is indeed the case, then the two most popular Westerns of the early 1990s reveal that many Americans had rejected the traditional interpretation of the Old West. The critically and commercially successful, Dances with Wolves and Unforgiven, repudiated the patriotic frontier myth that had characterised the Western when it was the preeminent genre in American

Abraham Lincoln’s hand has reportedly been gone missing. According to New York Times, all of the curators at the Kankakee County Museum were saddened and perplexed after they discovered that the 150 year old plaster art piece went missing. They are not certain when actually it disappeared but believed that it went missing sometime before Dec 11 last year. The sculpture of the 16th president’s hand was proudly displayed at the museum for years and it was made by George Grey Bernard, an artist who

University Free Day will feature free admission to the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art all day, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. In addition, there will be a panel discussion, The Importance of Modernism To Our Region Then and Now, moderated by Bechtler curator Jennifer Sudul Edwards, in the Wells Fargo Auditorium at Knight Theater (430 S. Tryon Street) from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. Students and faculty should take advantage of the opportunity to

inspiration of the artist. While some artworks only have a fragment of presentation it is easy to gather a generic idea about the influence of the artist. The public presentation are the words of the curator which is easily noticeable through the friendly tone of text. The intentions of the curator are well represented in the smaller and in the larger public reflections and the openness of the contexts makes it easy to understand these intentions. These intentions show the viewer the different sides

Tying the laces on her tennis shoes, she spotted her slender image in the cheval mirror. She had gotten thinner over the past year. She always had a slender build with delicate features, but with the extra loss of weight, she appeared more fragile. Even so, she looked acceptable and was now ready to face the other guests. Standing at the top of the stairs, the savory scent of baking biscuits drifted up from the kitchen below. She could understand why Fiona’s traveling salesman always picked this