Tag: America
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The National Museum of the American Indian
Another day, another museum. After my experience yesterday in the National Gallery, I had quite a different experience today on the Mall. I went to the National Museum of the American Indian. I came to the museum skeptical. I took a class this summer on Native Americans that made me really disillusioned with the way…
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Room 64
This thing often happens when I go to museums. There’s so much to see, I’m usually in a city with a million other things to do, and I get tired of standing. So as I walk from painting to painting, I’ll often pause at a piece that really grabs me, stop in wonder for a…
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Paris VI: L’américanisation
I had a pleasant surprise today when I went to my first Introduction to Contemporary Cultural History class today at La Sorbonne: this semester, the class will be focused on l’américanisation. The nerd in me was a little disappointing to miss out on the theory the class did last semester (now that I’m going to…
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Paris V: Une Exhibition
Today I went to a museum. We saw Robert Frank and Sophie Ristelhueber exhibits. We started with Robert Frank. There were two Robert Frank expositions, one of his influential book, The Americans and the other of his time in Paris during the après guerre. I spent a good amount of time in The Americans room.…
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Road Trip Post 1: Iron Man, Metaphysics and 400 miles
As promised, I will be blogging my thoughts on the roadtrip with Will and Ken and later my thoughts on my stay in Minneapolis. Leaving Middlebury was definitely sad; I had my last meal in Proctor and it was especially stirring to saying goodbye to Thom who I won’t see until I go to France…
George Altshuler 