| op-ed: Misrepresentation of African Art
The exhibition "Resonance from the Past: African Art from the New Orleans Museum of Art" at the Middlebury Museum of Art set the framework for a course this semester that included students from diverse academic backgrounds ranging from art history to physics. Since the exhibition opened in September, class participants in History of Art and Architecture 228: African Art, Museums and the Politics of Representation have been introduced to African art and had the opportunity to engage in a critical examination of traditional approaches to the study of non-western art. A review of the exhibition in The Middlebury Campus ("Tribal sculpture show shifts African bias," Sept. 19) provoked a stimulating discussion session for the class, which inspired students to contribute this commentary to the newspaper.
Friends, colleagues mourn death of art professor Ladis
Nationally renowned art historian and beloved University of Georgia art professor Andrew Ladis died Sunday morning from cancer. He was 58. For more than a decade, Ladis served as Franklin Professor of Art History at UGA's Lamar Dodd School of Art. He was a specialist in early Italian Renaissance painting, traveling the world to offer his expertise in lecture halls and galleries, museums and universities. "People all over the world, Italy, England, wherever you'd go, would say, 'University of Georgia, isn't that where Andrew Ladis is?' " said Shelley Zuraw, area chair of art history at UGA. .
Liberal Democrat Shadow Children, Schools and Families Secretary
"This is just change for change's sake. We are going back to an education system run on the basis of change driven by ministers, rather than by schools themselves. "More reviews and curriculum upheaval will do nothing to improve the quality of education in schools today. "There is no need for another review of the primary curriculum, and when Ed Balls talks about removing 'clutter' most schools will not know what he means. "Do we really want less time for history, geography, art or music? Having national tests twice a year runs the risk of taking up even more time with test preparation. "Ed Balls should focus on getting school funding right, sorting out the confusion over the future of the qualifications framework, and giving schools real power to innovate.
The Art Of The Motorcycle At The Guggenheim Museum
From the inside, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, looks more like a giant spiral parking ramp than a museum–which makes it a fitting venue for an exhibit on the history of motorcycle design and the motorcycle's role as a cultural icon. "The Art of the Motorcycle," running at the Guggenheim until Sept. 20, showcases noteworthy bikes built from 1885 to 1998, from all over the world. Curators divided the bulk of the exhibit into eight historical periods, and also included a collection of pre-production models. In all, 114 bikes are on display. How did motorcycles earn their spots in the exhibition? According to the curators, it was a combination of "extraordinary design and innovative technologies." Displays of motorcycle advertising and publicity shots, along with lists of famous people, events and music, help to convey what the bikes stood for when they were produced.
Telegraph to fund history TV show
Telegraph Media Group is to co-fund a TV series that will run on the History Channel and marks the newspaper publisher's first move into ad-funded programming. The series, which has the working title 50 Things Every Citizen Should Know About, will be presented by TV historian and author Dan Snow. Telegraph Media Group, owner of the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and telegraph.co.uk, has signed an agreement with the History Channel to jointly fund the five-part series, which will air next year. It is understood that TMG has also secured digital rights for online use of the show, footage or clips through a service such as Telegraph TV. Each programme in the series will feature between eight and 12 events from British history - such as the construction of Stonehenge or the invention of the internet - with a total of 50 to be featured.
The day the City of Allegheny disappeared
As a postscript in one installment, an unsigned essay reads, in part, "It is almost impossible to make a separate chapter out of Allegheny when writing a history of Pittsburg. Many of the men who have made Pittsburg famous as an industrial center have their homes in Allegheny and no one who lives on the north side is independent of the thriving, bustling city across the river. " To the fiercely independent smaller city, those might have been fighting words. Today, many North Siders who embrace Pittsburgh still don't feel the North Side fits comfortably in its weave of neighborhoods. "We're just different over here," said Mike Coleman, president of the Allegheny City Society and a long-time resident of Allegheny West. "When we moved here, we were amazed at how much like a village it is, apart from the rest of the city." "I think a lot of folks felt like we were a step-child," said former city councilwoman Barbara Burns, a native of East Allegheny.
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