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...Geometric Abstraction: Art of the Patricia Phelps di Cisneros Collection” put the spotlight on artists working in the Americas, and three current exhibitions at the Fogg—including “You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé,” “Marking Places: Spatial Effects of African Art” and “Beyond Decorum: the Photography of Iké Udé”—celebrate African...
...Look Beautiful Like That” showcases the work of two contemporary photographers from Mali, Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé. Both photographers—who have lived and worked in Bamako, the capital of Mali, since the early 1950s—began their work with six by nine cm Kodak Brownie cameras. Soon they each had their own commercial photography studios in Bamako, eventually producing tens of thousands of portraits for members of Bamako’s elite...
...with his squad, all armed. The peddlers were trading illegally, so the officer told them to leave. But immediately the men came down from the rooftops and surrounded him. Paid by the peddlers for protection, they were armed with Kalashnikov and M-16 rifles. These were men from the Ta'amra tribe. Thought to be descendants of medieval Crusaders, they dwelled in goat-hair tents until a few decades ago, but in the 1960s they settled in villages on the edge of the Judean Desert and began to take over local farmlands. In the past few years, the Ta'amra...
...Ta'amra were fired up for a fight. If the police wouldn't give them one, they decided to pick another. Across the street, they noticed a young activist from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine with a roll of posters and a bucket of paste. On the posters was the image of Raed Dabash, a 20-year-old P.F.L.P. member shot by Israeli soldiers. The activist set to work pasting up pictures of Dabash over the top of some older posters. That was his mistake. The martyr whose posters were obscured was Hussein Abayat, a gunman...
...consent of the governed is expressed by legislators who are voted into office for the purpose of writing new laws and changing old ones. If the legislators change or write those laws in ways we disagree with, then we get to get rid of the legislators and hire replacements. Ta-da! Democracy! The rule...