February 2012
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Cairo in Context | Alluring Archives: On Memory,... →
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Find a Screening for Season 6 of Art21! →
Premieres April 13th, 2012 on PBS.
Historical Marker iPhone App Maps the Roadside... →
As a folklorist and a history buff, I’ve long thought about taking a road trip that involved stopping solely at interesting and obscure historical markers. A new iPhone app released today might not be what makes me follow through with those plans, but it’ll certainly help locate
Historical iMarkers includes a fairly comprehensive database of roadside markers, with data on almost...
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Looking Back to Nigeria [Part I of a Series]
Here’s a link to part one of a series of posts looking back to my trip to Nigeria.
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WatchLevel 2 Gallery: Contested Terrains.
An exhibition at the Tate Modern that highlights 4 artists working in Africa.
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The Madame Walker Theatre Center Partners with my...
Here’s a link to a post on the MWTC’s blog about this great project. I’m really looking forward to seeing how this class develops and produces great information about and around this collection.
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Divine Disorder, Conference on the Conservation of... →
nancieravenel:
Starts this morning…
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After having the privilege to spend a week and a...
I’m having a harder time now making sense of this America than I did making sense of anything there. I hope this feeling lasts a long time.
January 2012
31 posts
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The Science and Ethics of Contemporary Art...
My column for this month on Art21’s Blog is an interview with the Getty’s Tom Learner about his career and new exhibition at the Getty Museum, From Start to Finish: De Wain Valentine’s Gray Column.
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Two Good Blog Posts about Indiana Avenue and the...
Indiana Avenue: From Glory to Decline
Along the Avenue: the Legacy of Indianapolis Jazz
Both posts by David Brent Johnson