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...part of campus commemoration of World AIDS Day yesterday, Philip L. Yenawine—the co-founder of Visual Understanding in Education, an art education initiative—spoke about artistic responses to the AIDS epidemic at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum...
...subject was personal for Yenawine, who worked as director of education at the Museum of Modern Art from 1983 to 1993—during the height of the AIDS epidemic...
...privilege to have a speaker of this caliber who is willing to share some of these stories of how artists have contributed to social change” in response to AIDS, said M. Ray Williams, director of education at the Harvard Art Museum...
Behind Jakarta's crisp neoclassical National Museum is the cluttered neighborhood of Kebon Jahé Kober, named for ginger farms that once occupied the area, and for a colonial cemetery some blocks away. There, in a wrinkle of ashen alleyways, the 24-year-old Pramoedya Ananta Toer - Indonesia's most prominent writer, who died in 2006 before getting the Nobel he deserved - lived with his new wife and her family after being released from prison in December 1949, just weeks before Dutch authorities recognized Indonesia's independence. After 2½ years in jail (for being caught with anti-Dutch paraphernalia...
...December. Yet, with some 400 property projects already reportedly frozen in Dubai, the news raised the specter of a gigantic default that would sink exposed creditors around the world. "Inspired by Islamic artifacts," read the sheik's post on Twitter during a visit to the British Museum as share prices from Tokyo to New York City were about to plunge in response to Dubai's announcement. (See a story about Dubai's debacle and the global financial crisis...