HANFORD, CA.- Active for over 40 years, Fukami’s early and rare stoneware sculptures are testimony of the young potter’s experiments, but today he is internationally known for his celebrated pale-blue glazed porcelains. Collected by at least 47 mu…
Exhibition at Anne Frank House in Amsterdam Focuses on Her Sister, Margot
AMSTERDAM.- Margot Frank, born on 16 February 1926, steps out of the shadow of her world-famous sister Anne with an exhibition especially devoted to her in the Anne Frank House. The exhibition ‘Margot, Anne’s sister’ was opened today by frien…
Jeu De Paume Brings Together Works for "False Friends / An Ephemeral Video Library"
PARIS.- The works brought together in the exhibition “False Friends / An Ephemeral Video Library” present micro-narratives articulated around personal experiences, anecdotes or testimony. Situated on the margins of mainstream history and repo…
Jeu De Paume Brings Together Works for "False Friends / An Ephemeral Video Library"
PARIS.- The works brought together in the exhibition “False Friends / An Ephemeral Video Library” present micro-narratives articulated around personal experiences, anecdotes or testimony. Situated on the margins of mainstream history and repo…
Tales of Katrina Told through Museum Exhibition at the Louisiana State Museum
NEW ORLEANS (AP).- The room is lit by flashlights, an escape hole chopped in the roof with an ax lying nearby. Steps away, rising floodwaters seep down a levee wall; across the way, a storm diary written in black felt marker on a housing project wall …
Yad Vashem Gets Access to Polish Archives
WARSAW (AP).- Israel’s Holocaust museum Yad Vashem signed an agreement with Poland on Monday that gives it access to World War II-era documents held in archives across the eastern European country. The material, held in 34 state-run and provincial arc…
Jeffrey Sauger’s Where Furrows Run Deep at Jack Hanley Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- The existence of yet another population of our nation’s landscape has begun to fade. Institutional racism, foreclosures, and bankruptcy have shattered American black farmers’ rights to the land they have occupied for generation…