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WOUNDED KNEE: LEST WE FORGET, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyo. One hundred years after the army massacred more than 145 Sioux at Wounded Knee, S. Dak., an exhibit of photo murals, weaponry and Ghost Dance garments illuminates the tribe's life and religion in the late 19th century and the reasons behind the killings. Through...
...Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari made sure all the stops were pulled out for this exhibit. The country's biggest media mogul, Emilio Azcarraga, put up the money. An unprecedented tonnage of basalt, clay, obsidian, jade, gilt, inlaid wood and painted canvas has been moved out of Mexican churches, museums and private collections -- sometimes over protests by local communities that resent having their saints or gods borrowed by the government. On view are 365 objects, starting in l000 B.C. with a five-ton stone Olmec head and finishing in 1949 with Frida Kahlo's The Love-Embrace...
...response to such concerns, Crutchfield, Breyer and Heather R. McCloud '90-91 are organizing a support network for students returning from time away. They are planning a journal, an art exhibit and a support group...
...Triptych Gallery exhibit, titled "Our Planet," will be broader in focus, including the paintings, photographs and drawings of students who have done work while away from Harvard...
...survival in the harsh beauty of the Great Plains region. The idea for the story came to him during a visit to Miles City, Mont., this summer, when he decided to seek out the lonely spot where, in 1886, the Smithsonian's William Hornaday slaughtered 25 bison for an exhibit at Washington's National Museum of Natural History. Recalls Sidey: "I found the site and stood filled with a sense of being in a primeval time and place. I understood what Montanans mean when they speak of the Big Sky country, the immensity and timelessness...