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Blind photography: the very concept sounds like an oxymoron. But an intriguing and often striking exhibition of photographs in Riverside, California, argues that it emanates from the core of contemporary art. The show "Sight Unseen," at the California Museum of Photography until Aug. 29, features everything from underwater scenes off Catalina Island, transvestites in New Orleans and Braille-enhanced black-and-whites as well as portraits, nudes, landscapes, travel shots, abstracts, collages, and everything else you might expect from a "sighted" photographer. Except the subtext and context is blindness: the photographers are legally blind, some born without sight or with...
Next door to the museum is the Sweeney Art Gallery, where curator Tyler Stallings has seen a steady stream of visitors. "It's definitely a show that's brought in a lot of people who may have never been here, even though they live in the area," says Stallings. He notes that while the show certainly has a curiosity element, the work is not presented in a "superficial" way. He explains that shows that target a "self-defined" community, such as a certain ethnicity, "can oftentimes make it a marginalized exhibition. What's nice about this show is that Doug...
...well as being a repository of museum-worthy art - including Thawan's own - from all over the world, Black House, tel: (66-8) 9767 4444, is also a shrine to the artist's collection of animal skins and bones. Dismissing the myths surrounding his bizarre collection - thought by many to be mysterious - if not ghoulish, the controversial 70-year-old, who professes to be nonreligious, maintains that "they mean nothing. They are for study, to help me with anatomy, form and function." Is Black House the flipside of the virtuous White Temple, or is that reading too much into their...
...most prominent officials, including Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, were Christians. But since the American invasion of Iraq, Christians have fled in droves, and constitute less than 1% of the population. Syria - which survived attempts by the Bush Administration to isolate the Assad regime - is still like a living museum of otherwise forgotten Christian sects and shrines...
...National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago...