Through a window whose
only opposition is an exhibition in which
calculated
pacing, hears the energies reasoning with Pure Art, the old dangers of dry
timbered signatures initating styles |
Take
this exhibition of rusty Spanish-American homesteading tools at the
Albuquerque Museum. While the Curator of Modern Art dozes, the few
contemporary pieces huddle in an outcove.
The
oldest, possibly dating as far back as 20,000B.C., included
more than 20
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Take this exhibition: A
Settlement in colonial New Mexico was in effect a transplantation,
a new version of the
order that had prevailed in colonial Mexico and Spain. It was not
the work of footloose individuals in search of adventures or wealth,
but of small, homogeneous groups of simple people who brought with
them their religion, their family ties, their ways of building and
working and farming. J.B. Jackson, A Sense of Place, A Sense
of Time. New Haven, CT., 1994.
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