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...Bringing marginalized or forgotten traditions to light is something of an IAMM speciality. "Faith and Power," an exhibit on women in Islam earlier this year, unearthed the history of Muslim women as fighters, rulers and scholars. On the wall at the exhibit's close, a quote from Megawati Sukarnoputri, who in 2001 became Indonesia's first female President, read: "It appears that I am considered to be a housewife? What's wrong with that? It does not mean a housewife does not understand politics...
...early elections and appointed him anyway. The AKP then passed a constitutional amendment to lift a ban on head scarves in universities. Since many secularists view head scarves as a political symbol of an Islamic lifestyle, that amendment - struck down by the high court last month - became a key exhibit in the case against...
...this transformation, Loyrette and his chief administrator, Didier Selles, have trademarked the Louvre name and cut a deal with labor unions to end the strikes that used to shut the place down for a couple of weeks every year. Most controversially, Loyrette has also invited contemporary artists to exhibit at the Louvre and even decorate it - provoking howls of protests from French detractors...
...Bean the cat was recovered - and has since moved away. "We took him to Canada, where he'd be safe," says Kurtz, smiling. The exhibit will probably move to Berlin and New York City next. And it may grow. Kurtz and his attorneys are still fighting to get back the three computers, 25 books and assorted lab equipment the government seized four years ago. The FBI says those items will be returned after the normal paperwork process is complete...
...comment, artistic or otherwise, on the exhibit itself. Spokesperson Dempsey has not seen it, nor has the lead agent on the Kurtz case. And, she says, he has no plans...