Word: recentering
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Emerging in the mid-1990s, New York City's Wu-Tang Clan proved to be one of the decade's most intense, wacky and essential rap groups. The nine-MC Clan was led by the RZA, who in recent years has gone on to release several solo albums and film scores (Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill). His latest project, a book released this month called The Tao of Wu, is half-memoir, half-spiritual guide. The rapper and entrepreneur, whose real name is Robert Diggs, talked to TIME about the history...
...recent high-profile case that has highlighted the difficulties in authenticating a piece of art is a disputed Jackson Pollock painting, purchased for $5 in 1992 by ex-trucker Teri Horton in a California thrift store. Biro was also involved in that investigation. He matched a partial fingerprint on the canvas to one on a paint can used by Pollock and paint on the canvas to samples from Pollock's studio. Still, despite the forensic evidence, the art community has been reluctant to certify the work. There is no record of the painting's former ownership, and examinations by experts...
...long-time fan of The Crimson and one who has enjoyed working with several of your recent editors, I was gravely disappointed by the lapse of editorial judgment in publishing a recent article, “Ex-Grad Student Alleges Misconduct” (Sept...
...part to assume that American history, a trajectory that stretches back for centuries before 1492, begins with the presence of white European explorers—an assumption that smacks of an outmoded, Eurocentric worldview. And while the holiday’s national importance has thankfully diminished in recent decades, the trend away from celebrating Columbus Day should continue even further, and the holiday should be officially replaced with another that celebrates the role and presence of Native Americans in our national history...
...mails, has handled this matter with consummate professionalism, consulting the university administration at every stage. The e-mail from Professor Rogoff quoted in the Crimson story used text suggested to him by GSAS administrators. Deans Michael Smith and Allan Brandt have expressed their strong support in a recent letter to Professor Rogoff, which states “the allegations about your conduct, described in the article and the mounting mass emails, were without any substance” and concludes, “You are, and always have been, an upstanding member of our community, a wonderful colleague, and a valuable...