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...Constellation” is the piece that most directly addresses the phenomenon of the Underground Railroad. According to the artist, the starkly bare tree and surrounding night sky are meant to reference the experiences slaves had escaping during cold and dark nights. Biggers incorporated the quilt in order to reference the historical controversy over whether coded messages were stitched into blankets by abolitionists. He points out that it is unclear whether the quilts present historically salient evidence of communication or if they have no importance outside of their aesthetic value. “History is largely conjecture. It is guesses...
Marroquín, who has the same thick face and wide girth of his father, describes Escobar as a doting parent. But as the manhunt for the drug lord intensified in the late 1980s, the family was forced underground and Marroquín saw his father only sporadically. Still, Escobar encouraged his children to lead their own lives. "My father did everything to keep us separated from his business," Marroquín says. "If I wanted to be a doctor, he said he would give me the best hospital. If I wanted to be a hairdresser, he said he would...
...like a serial killer. This guy was a Jewish terrorist who targeted different types of people." - Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. (AP, Nov. 1, 2009) (Read "In the Tunnels: Gaza's Underground Economy...
Finally, nestled in the center of the exhibition, is the ultimate encounter: the mummy itself. Only the head remains, a brown, distorted thing, its features drooping after chemical alterations and years underground. The process of mummification altered the face so much, a panel informs, that the priest in charge of preparing the body would recreate the face before burial. Today, the head looks more alien than human...
...objection to the prince's plan is largely twofold: Paris Historique, which took the developers to court after the government signed off on the project, says the underground parking lot would threaten the stability of the now-dilapidated mansion. The prince's desire to restore the mansion to the way it looked in the 17th century has also upset Polish officials, who say this would require removing architectural details that were added when the Polish royal family owned the building from...