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...item on the school’s lobbying agenda, Harvard asked lawmakers to change the statutes governing Housing and Urban Development (HUD) subsidies...
...final photo series cloud (2000) recaptures that view, though what float across the sky are poetic symbols of Aboriginal dispossession: European farm animals and vestiges of Christianity; even the boomerang returns to him as a weapon of racial stereotyping, beautiful but deadly. Riley was a child of the '80s urban-based Aboriginal movement, when art school-educated indigenous Australians like Tracey Moffatt and Gordon Bennett began using the tricks of Postmodernism to critique Australia's colonial past...
...daughter of famed campaigner Charles; Croft is a widely exhibited artist), pushing the envelope with indigenous shows. For the exhibition "fluent" at the 1997 Venice Biennale, they positioned Aboriginal work at the forefront of contemporary art, mixing Murray River eel traps with Western Desert landscapes and more urban visions. "What was achieved through 'fluent' was to start people thinking about contemporary Aboriginal art overseas," says Croft. For starters there were no dot paintings or "Dreaming" in the title. "I just keep seeing those shows coming up," says Croft, "and they've been happening for 20 years. You want to move...
ALPHONSO JACKSON, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, recounting a conversation with a prospective advertising contractor. Jackson later apologized and said he made up the story...
...stop is an outgrowth of a long standing Boston plan for a public transportation “urban ring” that would enable people to get into the western area of the city without being forced to connect through the Downtown Crossing and Park Street stations. Harvard wants to expand the ring more deeply into Allston than originally envisioned in order to create a “life science necklace” that would link Boston University, MIT, and Harvard...