Word: spencers
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...appropriate that a movement which, as curator Hetti Perkins puts it, "morphed from rock walls to gallery walls," should have begun in and around Maningrida, "the place where the Dreaming changed shape." Less than 150 km west, at Oenpelli/Kunbarlanja, in 1912, anthropologist Baldwin Spencer first encouraged Aborigines to put their rock designs on bark in exchange for tobacco. It would be a further 50 years before the Kuninjku language group began to gather at Maningrida settlement. Here a young John Mawurndjul was treated for leprosy, and in 1963, with the Maningrida Social Club, a fledgling art industry began...
EIA’s findings seem pretty solid—even Secretary of Energy (and Bush appointee) Spencer Abraham was unwilling to go to bat on this one, telling Congress in April that he did “not dispute the EIA analyses...
...night, depending on the season, you get a suite of two rooms, a kitchen and a large marble bathroom, plus access to the guesthouse's funky art collection. Scattered throughout the 19th century mansion are contemporary works by the likes of American Spencer Tunick and Italians Franco Angeli and Mario Consiglio, which make a nice counterpoint to the classics that fill most of the city's other galleries. Nestled on a landing is Maurizio Cannavacciuolo's sculpture of an Egyptian mummy, but my favorite is a statuette of Star Wars' Yoda wearing a Pope's miter by Australia-born Adrian...
...political events in Russia and Venezuela and by terrorist attacks in Iraq?energy experts predict that oil is unlikely to fall to less than $30 per barrel and will probably remain substantially higher. Prices "are going to start with a 3 or a 4 for some time," warns Spencer White, chief Asia strategist for Merrill Lynch...
...hope was that it could help improve race relations in Cincinnati--it was only in 2002 that the Ku Klux Klan stopped its annual mounting of a Christmas tree in the city's main square. The desire for reconciliation is built into the center's DNA. Its focus, says Spencer Crew, its executive director, "is not about finger pointing...