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Perspectives
Christine Kreamer is a curator at the National Museum of African Art, but in 1969 she was seventeen, sneaking out her bedroom window.
The music, the lights, the rhythmic nodding and singing along by the audience transported us all to a different but familiar time and a place.
As the Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcome their firstborn son, “royally obsessed” super fans in the United States are striving to keep many time-honored royal traditions alive.
Soon after Paper Jack arrived in New York from Poland in 1902, he acquired the violin he would hold so dear.
I leaned forward to look for a—“Sharpener! Damn it, how do we say it in Galician?”
Meredith Holmgren is part of a new curatorial team that will spotlight little-known stories, historical collections, and present-day issues of women in the United States.
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