America tends to conveniently forget things that don’t align with its vision of American exceptionalism. Like the fact that it has played host to concentration camps in its past. In its latest exhibition, “Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America”, Barnes Foundation curator Cindy Kang asks attendees to remember this painful truth and to acknowledge…
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What happens when two lost people, deeply unhappy with their current lives, find each other? They start a cult. As one typically does in this scenario, of course. Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles pair up to create a belief system called “Heaven’s Gate” stating that its followers aim to elevate to “The Evolutionary Level…
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Camp is an indefinable fashion concept. The 2019 Met Costume Institute spring exhibition sought to define it somewhat, which is no small task. Enter Susan Sontag. As a writer, she took on the herculean task of doing this in 1964; her work “Notes On ‘Camp'” was used in part as the basis for this…
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