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...Jason W. Schnier ’11, the chair of Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance, said that yesterday’s events were not political, but rather that they represented simply a “celebration of culture and of Jewish statehood.” Likewise, attendee Michael M. Kohen ’09 said that he believed Israel Independence Day was about appreciating how much the country has progressed. “Israel is a beautiful place in what its been able to give in 61 years,” said Kohen. “It?...
...during the 1950s, Paris-based artist Karel Kupka was the first to collect Arnhem Land barks as pieces of art, not anthropology; many of them will be displayed for the first time in MQB. "He was the first to recognize the individuality of each artist," says French-born Apolline Kohen, director of Maningrida Arts and Culture, creative home to John Mawurndjul. In fact, it was the 1989 Paris exhibition, "Magiciens de la Terre," which showed the work of Aboriginal artists alongside their Western contemporaries for the first time, which sparked Kohen's interest in the field. "From my experience...
...four years, the Paris-trained curator has already helped reshape perceptions of Aboriginal art abroad. As well as assisting with the current Mawurndjul retrospective, now at Hannover's Sprengel Museum in Germany, this year Kohen took the first ever show of Aboriginal art to the Middle East, when "Identity and Country: Contemporary Art from Maningrida" opened at the La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art in Bahrain. "They were very curious," says Kohen. "They didn't get what they were expecting." No dot paintings or didjeridus; just the metamorphic power of rarrk. Her most heartening response? " 'Where's the Aboriginal...
...people had already given up hope and were just sitting there crying," he said. "I stepped over children who were wailing and holding onto the railing." Very few of the survivors were women, children or - the elderly. "There is no law that says women and children first," said Roger Kohen, spokesman for the International Maritime Organization, based in London. "That is something from the age of chivalry." Perhaps there was no time for chivalry aboard the Estonia. Many children, mothers and elderly people were asleep in cabins deep within the ship. Patrons in the upper-deck bars were mainly males...
...price was something Harry Truman and Charles Kohen kept to themselves...