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...common sense.” Now a pro, the director has won an award at the 2009 Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival for her most recent work “New Muslim Cool,” which was screened at the Sackler Museum on October 10. In the film, she follows the life of Hamza Pérez, a Puerto Rican-American rapper and former drug dealer who found his faith in Islam. FM had a chance to hear her dish about music, the FBI raiding mosques after 9/11, and her love for sauerkraut...
...This has not gone entirely unrecognized. On Aug. 1 - Switzerland's 718th birthday - the Swiss National Museum in Zurich opened a new permanent exhibition to chart a history of immigration since the Bronze Age. In a section called "No One Has Been Here All the Time," visitors to the museum are reminded that many famous Swiss have foreign blood. Take tennis superstar Roger Federer: his dad was born South African. Exceptionalism is out of fashion these days. (Well, unless you're Chinese.) Global recession is a great leveler, its seismic shocks felt in big and small nations alike. Even Switzerland...
Though it's been almost three decades since the last Gorky retrospective, the big new show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was worth the wait. Organized by Michael R. Taylor, the museum's curator of modern art, it has final galleries so triumphant, you want to throw your hat in the air, even though you know - and how could you forget? - that this is a story that will end where it began, in darkness. (Watch TIME's video about Arshile Gorky...
...England via Germany by train, tracing the route of the Kinder-transport which spirited him from Prague as a five-year old boy in 1939. After learning that his mother was interred at a camp in Terezín in 1942, he visits the town’s Ghetto Museum, and is henceforth tormented by images of “the bricks of the fortification walls… the endless lists of names… the grass growing between the cobblestones...
...Read "What's Wrong with a Museum of French History...