Neighborhood of havana. That is where poverty, castro style not opportunity, not freedom, not democracy is the t umbrella under which they live. S the president should witness their bravery. Listen to their stories, feel their despair. See the fear under which they live. And stand up with them. If he did, he could learn of ths story of ms. Gomez, who is a rested this past sunday for marching peacefully. Basically the ladies in white they dress in white as a form of a symbol, they march with to church every sunday in protest of their sons, and husbands who are arrested for their political and they are beaten savagely. If we could learn of the story one of the ladies in white from marching peacefully. And and an article she told her story quote, we were subjected to aer lots of violence today, many ofp us were dragged and beaten to. She pointed out this had taken place only one week before president obamas visit. She related how she was taken tl a Police Station where she wasn forcibly u
As always was always amazing about these stories is white why to be white of you may now on the cusp ofn getting meaty a female president , why only now is the types of tide is slowly turning on the legalization of marriage . Its like it seems like we have these kind of moral insights but the gap between the site and the practical demonstration of that insight can be decades. I guess the task is to try to change that gap. It still amazes me. You know, if you look at the list of major northwestern dutch major countries in the world we are one of the few that has not had a female head of state. Its astonishing. Even countries that you wouldnt have thought would have beaten us to the punch. Sure. Youve already accomplished such an impressive body of work. I am impressive is one particular work that you are most proud of but also one that you might have instructed differently or to be updated. Are you asking me if i have regrets . [laughter] im not going to sing for you if thats what youre
Commission and most of the staff or lawyers. But the point is that lawyers need evidence in order to shake their thinking and reach conclusions and there were only two bullets that seemingly hit anyone in the car and so the trajectory was carefully measured in one way by the one commission and the select committee of the house adapted a much more creative way of figuring out the trajectory in 1978 and they also pinpointed the southeastern corner of the depository and this was a trajectory that was down. So we did the main collaboration with the secret service and the cia collaborating and you could see that positions of the bodies were such that a shot going downward had hit something in the car and it was a simpleminded question that we kept asking until finally the possible answer was a single bullet to the damage and we have experts in the u. S. Army who could conduct experiments, excuse the impact using the animal flesh, which directory it had on the president , what it would have
[applause] my question is what is the best story . I dont know about that. Now, i dont think i got the good ones in there. Sorry to be a good question. Anyone else . Is there a followup . [inaudible] no, but it was fun to be a part of kansas and i heard earlier we talked about preserving the voices of elders and that is important and i was so happy that i got to do that. Its your history. Its part of what you grew up with. It was an honor to do. [applause] thank you. Now wan book tv Deborah Solomon recounts the life of Norman Rockwell known for his portraits and saturday evening post. She examines his professional life and personal life which were marked by bouts of depression. The talk on the Norman Rockwell museum in stockbridge massachusetts is about an hour. [applause] thank you for that fabulously gracious introduction and im glad. I cant believe that the archive has been digitized now that im done. I wore gloves fy read through the papers but its hard to turn pages. Im glad to kn
Idris Khan is an artist comfortable operating in the interstitial zones between translation and interpretation, absence and presence, and a more expansive apperception of art historical indexicality. His first one-person show in the United States, in Santiago Calatrava’s soaring wing of the Milwaukee Art Museum brings together multiple, distinct phases of the artist’s career that evince a restless search to capture the generic profundity of meaning in itself.