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Julius Nyang-oro, chair of the department of African and Afro-American studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, says Harvard's work has had a positive effect on his department...
Surely we're glad that Loker won't turn into a rest stop for the tourweary. And we're pleased for the extra attention available from Seth as he pours the French Roast tazo d'oro during the long nights of reading period. But in this instance, the bureaucracy we know as Harvard simply exercised a mechanical cost-benefit analysis which happened to come down on our side...
...18th centuries -- Murillo, Zurbaran, Velazquez, Goya and now lo Spagnoletto, "the Little Spaniard," as Ribera was known to his Italian admirers -- designed to close gaping holes in our collective art-historical knowledge, and to make concrete sense of the pictorial achievements of what imperial Spain called its siglo de oro, its golden century...
...there is every sign that the Biennale is recovering its equilibrium. The prizes were put back in 1986. This year's Leone d'Oro was won, amid general acclamation and to no one's surprise, by Jasper Johns for his show in the U.S. pavilion. One long-overdue new pavilion has been added: Australia's, showing a group of enormous paintings by the veteran expressionist Arthur Boyd, an artist of exceptional if uneven power whose work is hardly known...
There is shrimp-inspired dancing in Ecuador these days all right, but it is not to the tune of returning boats. Instead, in vast ponds on the salty flatlands of El Oro and other coastal provinces, a new industry has sprung up: shrimp farming. Last year these farms produced 20.8 million lbs. of the tasty crustaceans, vs. nothing just a decade ago, earning $66 million in foreign exchange and hefty profits for Ecuador's new shrimp farmers...