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...think of the game that way. But Barça represents a liberal nationalist spirit that makes for a powerful reprimand to both ethnic chauvinism and facile criticisms of the nation-state. Barça is the ultimate symbol of the Catalan people--one of their most glorious achievements, a monument to their language, history and struggle. But, at the same, it is a bastion of pluralism. Its anthem explicitly welcomes immigrants, and over time it has served as a powerful instrument for assimilating newcomers into Catalan society...
...Yunupingu's ceiling is not unlike Aboriginal art itself: a universe of independent but interconnecting movements, each adding luster to the other. With the June 23 opening of the MQB, President Chirac's $278-million monument to non-Western cultures next to the Eiffel Tower on the Seine, the stars would seem to be aligned for Aboriginal art. Yunupingu was one of eight indigenous Australian artists invited to create work for the museum-not to hang on its walls, but rather to be woven through the fabric of Jean Nouvel's visionary architecture. For indigenous art curators Hetti Perkins...
...game that way. But Barça represents a liberal nationalist spirit that makes for a powerful reprimand to both ethnic chauvinism and facile criticisms of the nation-state. Barça is the ultimate symbol of the Catalan people - one of their most glorious achievements, a monument to their language, history and struggle. But, at the same, it is a bastion of pluralism. Its anthem explicitly welcomes immigrants, and over time, it has served as a powerful instrument for assimilating newcomers into Catalan society. Every morning this past week, I have dressed my 14-month-old baby...
...gold mines, no rich mineral deposits. In fact, until recently there was very little in this town (pop. 345,000) other than some run-down farms, a distillery that produces mediocre vodka, a big statue of a Soviet rocket-science pioneer and a war-era T-34 tank monument that still bears the inscription FOR STALIN AND THE MOTHERLAND...
Walking through the hushed corridor of the gallery space in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies Paul Stopforth stops before a piece of his, which is entitled âMonument.â âThis is in reference to one of the prisoners, who found a piece of high-tensile wire and, with no tools, created a beautiful blanket pin.â Stopforth pauses, and traces the unbroken line of the object with his hand. âIt?...