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Rose Valland looked nondescript - an ideal trait for a spy. Gray and unglamorous, with black-rimmed glasses that gave her a perpetual frown, she was virtually invisible to the Nazis who, in 1940, were using the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris as a depot for thousands of plundered art masterpieces on their way to Germany. While working in a menial maintenance job, Valland eavesdropped on her Nazi bosses as they catalogued looted Vermeers and Rembrandts, and shipped them off to the private collections of top Nazis. Choice pieces were earmarked for the grand Führermuseum, which Adolf...
While the orchestra rehearsed, our minders took the journalists on a whirlwind tour of Pyongyang. One highlight: a hill overlooking the city, where a gigantic bronze statue of the Great Leader stands in front of the Korean Revolutionary Museum. There was no one around as we snapped photos of one another in front of the Big Man, but as we were about to leave, a group of around 40 people walked up in orderly rows, approaching the statue reverentially and then bowing deeply. But before we could ask what, exactly, the Great Leader meant to them, their tour guide herded...
...Government and International Studies.Blier, who is on the faculty of the African and African American Studies Department as well as of the History of Art and Architecture Department, notes that the growing field of contemporary African art has been received with a newfound openness in the West. Collectors, museums, and scholars are demonstrating increasing interest in the burgeoning field.“For a long time, whenever anyone thought about African art, [they thought,] ‘Well, if it is not traditional then in some way it’s not worthy of serious engagement,’ because...
...This didn't seem to be an act for our benefit; this appeared real. Before the mob of journalists could pepper them with questions about what Kim Il Sung meant to them, their handler hustled them into the museum. When we got back on the bus, we got a tongue-lashing; a handler screaming at us in Korean to behave. My group's translator, a decent enough guy named Mr. Kim, sheepishly translated: "He says we have to stick to the schedule. Otherwise, you'll never be able to see everything and you'll get in trouble...
...project is being conducted in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum of Chicago, the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, the Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium, and the Missouri Botanical Garden...