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...Professors hope that the greater flexibility to craft a plan of study in the concentration will attract bigger numbers...
...language is a powerful thing. The more we speak in the past tense, the more we feel as though our effort has ended. As president, Obama will need the coalition that elected him to help craft his version of good government. Democrats made tremendous strides with this campaign, but, if Obama voters tune out, the electoral landscape could shift back toward polarization and conservatism. Obama’s promises of health-care reform, economic recovery, and tactful foreign policy hang in the balance...
...That playfulness is something which I come back to very frequently in looking at her works.” Blier additionally explained her frustration with the tendency for African work to be denied admittance to many museums on the basis that it is simply “traditional craft.” “There have been real struggles for primacy of place in terms of acknowledgement of contemporary African art in the field of art history,” said Blier. “One of my real fights since I’ve been here...
...Arts and Crafts. The Museum of Arts & Design, formerly known as the American Craft Museum, has found a new home on Columbus Circle in New York City. The museum has 250 pieces in its permanent collection - everything from Arts and Crafts furniture to teapots and 1940s jewelry. The museum's first temporary exhibition, Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, features a jacket made out of dog tags and a dress made out of rubber gloves. If it all sounds a little mad to you, at least check out the building, designed by Portland, Ore.-based architect Brad Cloepfil. 2 Columbus Circle...
...Muertos,” a festival with Mexican and Central American origins, was commemorated as well. This weekend, the museum staged a two-part celebration. During the day, it held a family-oriented series of activities which included sugar skull painting, papel picado craft, and skull mask making. Harvard Ballet Folklórico de Aztlán, a traditional Mexican folk dancing troupe, also made an appearance. Later on in the evening, the Peabody was the scene for a ticketed “Fiesta” event geared towards adults, which featured live music from Mariachi Veritas de Harvard...