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01/09/2009
'CENTRAL AMERICAN TEXTILES' (The Wichita Eagle)
Colorful, bold, intricately patterned and exquisitely crafted aptly describe the Central American textiles on view at the Wichita Art Museum. The pieces are contemporary clothing articles from the collection of Jerry Martin, director of the Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology at Wichita State University. It is a staggering exhibition, both in the aesthetic punch it carries and in the sheer ...
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01/06/2009
NEWS: Graduate students discuss cultural tolerance in open forum (The Dartmouth)
Cultural tolerance is often most prevalent in societies that have a diverse array of ethnicities and religions, according to two Dartmouth graduate students who presented their ongoing ethnographic study in Collis Center on Monday.
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01/07/2009
Film Review: Silent Light (Film Journal)
Stillness and silence are grievously underused commodities in movies these days. Carlos Reygadas’ Silent Light jars you into realizing how compulsively busy and noisy most stuff on screen is—and how conditioned we are to expect that.
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01/07/2009
Bouncers: 97% Nothing, 3% Hell and Terror (San Diego Reader)
“It’s nothing like Road House, there’s no Patrick Swayzes,” says Ted Washington, who divides his time as a bouncer between Winstons in Ocean Beach and at the Casbah in Middletown. Other bouncers have a different take on this particular vocation.
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01/06/2009
Asian Collections Featured in New Museum Exhibit (Beloit College)
A new exhibit highlights the collection of 20th century botanist Harley Harris Bartlett
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01/06/2009
Logan Museum Exhibit to Focus on Early Asian Culture (Beloit College)
Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost prefecture, is a large island with an abundance of mountains, volcanic plateaus and coastal plains. A popular tourist destination today, it has long been the ancestral homeland of the Ainu people—an indigenous population with roots that go back thousands of years.
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01/06/2009
Exhibits Focus on Viewing and Preserving Collections (Beloit College)
Current Logan Museum exhibits highlight the role and importance of museum collections.
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01/02/2009
Diaspora Cultural Meet begins (New Kerala)
Puducherry, Jan 2 : With the larger objective of building an ethnographic museum on diaspora, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) today began its third Diaspora Cultural Meet here.
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01/03/2009
A Critical Connection to the Curious Case of Ota Benga (Washington Post)
It's not unusual for a minor, obscure historical figure suddenly to bubble up into the zeitgeist. (Remember the year of two Truman Capote movies?) But the inspiration for what might be the most arcane cultural reference of 2008 turned out to have particular, grievous resonance for me. His name is...
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01/04/2009
Javier Ramirez Limon Opens January 18, 2009 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (Art Daily)
SAN DIEGO, CA.- On January 18, 2009, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will open Cerca Series: Javier Ramírez Limón at its La Jolla location.
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  • Colonial Arts - Offers antique retablos, fine art, santos, textiles, furniture, and silver from Mexico and the Americas.
  • Kiva Trading Company - Direct Reservation Traders since 1985. Authentic Navajo, Hopi and Zuni jewelry, Pueblo pottery, weavings, kachina dolls, and fetish carvings.
  • Rare Vintage Hawaii Illustration Art Prints - An extensive selection of Hawaiian Islands and Pacific posters and fine art. Subjects include surfing, outrigger canoes, Flying Pan Am Clippers, steamships, Hula girls, resort hotel, railroad and aviation subjects.
  • RomanovRussia.com - Rare selection of items related to the Imperial Family. Palace porcelain, tsarist Militaria, Faberge.
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