The Resources in Art History for Graduate Students is exactly that. The
site
give graduate students in art history and other closely related fields
information on grants, fellowships, research opportunities, conferences,
professional resources, related links, and more. This continually
updated
site offers busy students an easily accessible portal to valuable
information that could help further their academic and future
professional
careers. [JAB]
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who stole the tee pee? is a phrase coined by artist George Littlechild,
as a
way of asking how contact and coexistence with White culture during the
last
300 years has altered Native American traditions and beliefs. Organized
by
the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and
Atlatl,
an organization that promotes the work of contemporary Native American
Artists, this exhibition combines historical artifacts from NMAI's
collection and works by living Native American artists to seek answers
to
this question. The show has four main galleries: changing reservation
realities, school bells and haircuts, tolerating tourists, and beyond
smoke
and mirrors. Each of the galleries includes an introduction explaining
its
focus (e.g., tolerating tourists talks about the commodification of
Indian
culture) and "gallery space," a view that presents historical artifacts
surrounded by related modern works. The exhibition makes heavy use of
mouse-
overs and animation to present information, but plainer alternatives are
offered: from the index, users can select contemporary artists' names to
see
their works (albeit by mouse-over), view historical objects selected
from a
list, and read plain ASCII text versions of all the exhibition label
copy.
There are also convenient back to main menu links throughout the
exhibition
to aid the lost. [DS]
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>From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2001.
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
