At the Williams College Museum of Art, Internationally acclaimed artist Michael Rakowitz has re-imagined a hall in the palace of Nimrud, built c. 1350 BCE in the historic Assyrian city on the Tigris river.
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Axis Mundo at WCMA rediscovers an artistic community in Los Angeles in the 1970s
A group of artists grew together in Southern California. They were kept out of galleries and museums and mainstream media, so they made their own spaces. And they are gathered together again now in Axis Mundo at the Williams College Museum of Art — an exhibit that has won national attention.
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Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis transformed American dance with teachers around the world
On a warm summer night, a company of dancers comes to a park in Tokyo to see Koshiro Matsumoto, the foremost man dancer of Japan, performing kabuki. He performs to the music of stringed samisens and flute, drums and singers, transforming from one role to another — a young woman, a […]
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