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Perhaps the best place to begin is with the special exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts called The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nation's Millenium General Assembly. It's difficult to describe this work; some call it "primitive art," others just attribute it to sheer madness and leave it at that. The Throne is a series of chairs, tables, little altars and tablets, all elaborately decorated in tin foil. It was created by James Hampton, a black, Washington D.C. janitor who apparently saved all of the tin foil he found on the job to construct...
...recently opened a shop, which is the only place besides the U.N. where you can get hand-made Rastafarian dolls from Jamaica. It also has jewelry and baskets from Ethiopia, Jamaica and the Carolina See Islands. The shop is at 719 Tremont Street (Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.). Call before you go because the museum is not always open during its hours...
...Northeastern University is a Tryptich by Boston Artist Dana Chandler, depicting the beating of black attorney Theodore Landsmark last April by a group of ROAR demonstrators. Northeastern acquired the paintings after somebody punched holes in them and scrawled "KKK" on the canvases while they were on exhibit last October. Call Northeastern's Afro-American Studies Department for more information...
Alan Patricof, the chairman of the board of directors of the company, said last night he was planning to call Wilson to tell him he is officially reinstated...
Daley's Chicago worked for the party faithful, for the guy who could call his "clout" to get his alley fixed or his brother a job with the Park District. But it didn't work so well for the guy who voted against the Machine and couldn't get his alley fixed, or the voter who didn't want to support feather-bedding in city government, or the store owner who receives a surprise visit from the building inspector after an anti-administration poster appeared in his window, or the tavern owners forced to pay extortion fees to corrupt policemen...