Category Archives: Arts

From The New York Times: FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — It’s been 10 years since L. Douglas Wilder, the nation’s first elected black governor, unveiled a plan to build the United States National Slavery Museum on 38 acres here. It was to be the only institution of its kind, housed in a soaring glass-and-travertine building and illuminated at night so that cars passing on I-95 could see the full-scale replica of a slave ship in its atrium.Today the land remains vacant and is drowning in tax bills.  Read the full story at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/arts/design/wilders-plan-for-slavery-museum-may-have-ended.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1311262168-iGCOq9NZBJLqoD4oFfb9NQ

Slate Magazine’s Julia Felsenthal asks: Why are these prints suddenly so popular? And what, if anything, do these Native American or Navajo prints have to do with Native American textiles? Read the full article and view a slideshow at: http://www.slate.com/slideshow/arts/the-strange-history-of-the-indian-blanket#slide_1