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Day Three: Highlights from the Global Art Forum
This year’s Global Art Forum was considerably larger then in year’s past. Highlights were presentations made by Shumon Basar (pictured right), London-based writer, curator and critic, who organized the ‘Discussing Museums’ event with Mikhail Piotrovsky from the Hermitage in St. … Continue reading
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Pulitzer Prize winning author, Alice Walker, tours Gaza
Alice Walker, who penned such esteemed novels as ‘The Color Purple’, toured Gaza yesterday in hopes of seeing first-hand the effects of war. Walker toured with a group of 60 women who are part of Code Pink, a grass-roots, pro-peace, … Continue reading
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