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...Olympics. Awarded since 1970, The Pulitzer Prize for Criticism honors “distinguished criticism, in print or online,” according to the Pulitzer Web site. Cotter has been on staff at the New York Times since 1998, focusing on the New York City arts scene and non-western art. While a student at Harvard, he studied English literature and was an editor for the Advocate. A native of Boston, the journalist said that he was raised in a family that loved music, books, and art. As a teenager in the sixties, Cotter said that he was heavily...
Still, they have not sold as well as intended due to hardware problems and government skepticism. Many claim OLPC siphons time and energy from more pressing needs, doesn’t support local infrastructure, and assaults the integrity and dignity of many non-Western cultures...
...also hope that this gift will encourage future donations, particularly in non-Western art. For Molesworth, “One of the things we need to do in the first half of the century is to expand our collection to reflect developments and traditions in other parts of the world, most significantly Latin America.” Not only would this make the Harvard Art Museum’s collection more diverse and exciting, it could potentially serve as a valuable teaching tool for classes that explore art outside the Western tradition...
...subaltern could speak, she should have asked if the subaltern could speak for itself—or better yet, themselves. At Harvard, the answer is still “no.” Harvard can take pride in its status as a progressive university when it begins to treat non-Western nations just as Western countries are treated in the formation of curricula in fields such as history, literature, and social studies...
...critic and social theorist Gayatri Spivak writes in her article, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”(1988), post-colonial initiatives such as these may in fact be complicit in the task of imperialism. In creating a forum outside of the discipline of history that forces non-Western histories into anthropological molds, the ideal of collective speech may in fact silence the individual voices of the formerly colonized and those without access to imperial resources or the imperial language. Even efforts such as the postcolonial field of study offered by the Committee on Degrees in History...