Posts Tagged ‘20560’

Scribblings: Paul Chaat Smith

On one of the first springtime Saturdays in April, I managed to slip down to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian to catch its associate curator, Paul Chaat Smith, read from his latest book Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong. Not exactly an event to herald the death of a wet, extended [...]

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National Museum of American History Reopens Tomorrow

Star Spangled Sculpture by tbridge
It was sad to me, back in 2006, when the National Museum of American History (NMAH) closed its doors. My wife and I, when first we met, had a very delightful time wandering its halls when she had first come down from Pittsburgh. It’s a special place, for us. [...]

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We Love Arts: Fritz Scholder at NMAI

Red No. 5 by tbridge
When Fritz Scholder came to New Mexico in the 1960s, he sword he’d never paint the Indian. When he got there, and saw the condition of the state of Indian art, he changed his mind. A quarter LuiseƱo, he was invited to join the Rockefeller Southwest Indian Art Project, [...]

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