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NEW EXHIBITS SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
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Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn, N.Y.—The new installation “Living Legacies: The Arts of the Americas” features the museum’s worldrenowned collection of indigenous art from North, Central, and South America, dating from about 3000 B.C. to the present. The installation is organized to illustrate the diversity and continuity of artistic traditions. It includes thematic exhibitions such as “Enduring Heritage: Arts of the Northwest Coast,” which features sculptural objects, and “Stories Revealed: Writing without Words,” which emphasizes the universality of the indigenous pictorial tradition. (718) 6385000 (New long-term installation) Field Museum Chicago, Ill.—“Treasures of the Americas: Selections from the Anthropological Collections of the Field Museum” includes some objects that have rarely, if ever, been on public display. These magnificent objects, including an exquisitely crafted Ice Age spearpoint, and a buckskin dress embellished with thousands of beads, illustrate the diversity and sophistication of indigenous cultures across the Americas. (312) 922-9410, www.fieldmuseum.org (Through May 30)
CONFERENCES, LECTURES & FESTIVALS The Central States Anthropological Society (CSAS) 82nd Annual Meeting March 10–12, Miami University Marcum Conference Center, Oxford, Ohio. The meeting is open to cultural and physical anthropologists, archaeologists, linguists, applied anthropologists, and other interested scholars. It offers an excellent opportunity to present and discuss current ideas and research in the field. Call Joyce Lucke (812) 376-6717, www.iupui.edu/~csas 35th Annual Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference March 11–13, Atlantic Sands Hotel and Conference Center, Rehoboth Beach, Del. Anyone interested in the archaeology of the Middle Atlantic area is welcome. The conference will feature the latest information on a wide variety of archaeological sites ranging in time from the earliest Paleo-Indian to those of the 20th-century. www.maacmidatlanticarchaeology.org
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center, New York, N.Y.— The new exhibit “George Catlin and His Indian Gallery” includes more than 100 portraits, landscapes, and scenes of tribal life by the lawyer turned painter. Catlin traveled thousands of miles from 1830 to 1836, following the trail of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and visited 50 tribes living west of the Mississippi River from present-day North Dakota to Oklahoma. The exhibition includes Native American artifacts collected by the artist that have not been shown with the paintings in more than a century. (212) 514-3700, www.nmai.si.edu (Through September 5)
MUSEUM OF MAN
Museum of Man San Diego, Calif.—A fascinating world of icy glaciers, snowy tundras, wooly mammoths, saber-toothed cats, Neanderthals, and Cro-Magnon people will be explored in the new exhibit “Frozen in Time: Life in the Pleistocene Ice Age,” a glimpse of life on earth more than 40,000 years ago. The exhibit explores how humans survived the extreme cold, how their cultural and social behavior was affected by climate, and how artistic expression became part of their daily lives. (619) 239-2001, www.museumofman.org (Opens March 5)
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