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Mather’s Three Columns Gallery is featuring new work by Brady Bonus, Murray Dewart, Peter Haines, Larry Pollins, Robert Schelling and Joseph Wheelwright. A range of contemporary bronze castings will be on display. Exhibit opens Nov. 1, and there will be a reception on Nov. 3. Mather House, 10 Cowperthwaite...
...Winthrop collection has traveled around the world and is back at the Fogg in the exhibit “To Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop.” The exhibition features painting and sculpture by such artists as Blake, Degas, Gericault, Ingret, Monet, Pissaro and Renoir. Fogg Museum...
...images on display also recall the larger context of physical anthropology, especially anthropometry, the study of human body measurements. As Peabody Director of External Relations Pamela Gerardi explains, the exhibit highlights the photos as anthropology, not art. They were taken in pre-Franz Boas era, before modern anthropology’s focus on cultural rather than race as the defining factor in the differences among peoples...
Having lived in America both before and after 9/11, Al-Dewachi says he has seen firsthand the changing nature of such consciousness. Photographed, fingerprinted and screened by the Immigration Naturalization Service, Al-Dewachi speaks of this exhibit as a way to mediate this form of racial science and profiling. “Racial science still exists and is alive and present,” he says, “only today it is undertaken in the name of security and not science...
...Dewachi, the images in his first exhibit tell a fascinating story of both a lost culture and an early form of anthropology. This duality will be echoed in subsequent displays. Gerardi hopes to showcase a series of four exhibits a year, each displaying part of the Peabody’s huge photographic collection. The collection could even be said to trace the history of anthropology itself, as the Peabody is one of the oldest anthropological museums in the world...