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THE ART MUSEUM is represented by many metaphors: the palace, the temple, and the mausoleum; the theme park and the shopping mall; the cabinet of curiosities and the chamber of dreams. Its purposes, largely those of preservation and display, seem precise enough to need no explanation, but the questions provoked by the museum are legion. What values guide the amassing of the museum’s contents, the artworks or artifacts that are assembled, cared for, and shown, and whom do those values represent? Since the museum, as an institution, belongs to history as much as the objects it contains, can its
Rita Angus, An Artist s
Life
Along with the
works of Colin McCahon and Toss Wollaston, Angus oil and
water colours are considered among the most important in
the development of twentieth-century New Zealand art. She
was a pioneer of modern painting during the 1930s and 1940s
and during the century since her birth works such as
Central Otago (1940) and
Portrait of Betty
Curnow (1941-42) have become national icons. Although
Angus is now one of Aotearoa’s best-loved painters,
the story of her life remained little known and poorly
understood before Jill Trevelyan s acclaimed and revelatory
biography, which won the Non Fiction Award at the Montana
Article – Howard Davis
Rita Angus, An Artist’s Life
Along with the works of Colin McCahon and Toss Wollaston, Angus’ oil and water colours are now considered among the most important in the development of twentieth-century New Zealand art.She was a pioneer of modern painting during the 1930s and 1940s and over one hundred years since her birth, works such as
Central Otago (1940) and
Portrait of Betty Curnow (1941-42) have become national icons. Although Angus has become one of Aotearoa’s best-loved painters, the story of her life remained little known and poorly understood before Jill Trevelyan’s acclaimed and revelatory biography, which won the Non Fiction Award at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2009. This revised edition updates the original with new assessments of Angus in light of the upcoming exhibition to be held at Te Papa late in 2021.
Black History Month: The Tougaloo Nine try integrating local library through read-in
Black History Month: The Tougaloo Nine try integrating local library through read-in By Quentin Smith | February 25, 2021 at 11:15 PM CST - Updated February 28 at 10:24 AM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Outside the old Jackson Municipal Library on State Street sits a Mississippi Freedom Trail Marker honoring the courageous efforts of nine Tougaloo College students.
In March of 1961, the students, Joseph Jackson Jr., Geraldine Edwards Hollis, Albert Lassiter, Alfred Cook, Ethel Sawyer, Evelyn Pierce, Janice Jackson, James “Sammy” Bradford, and Meredith C. Anding Jr. weren’t allowed to access the library due to the color of their skin.