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| WEEKEND BRUNCH |
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| HOUSEMADE ORGANIC GRANOLA,SPRING VEGETABLE OMELET,BENEDICT OF TASSO HAM,ORGANIC BUTTERMILK PANCAKES |
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| Ralph Eugene Meatyard |
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| Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American, 1925–1972) is not one of the most familiar names in photographic history, but his impact on the field, belatedly recognized, is significant. An optician in Lexington, Kentucky, Meatyard sustained a lifelong interest in visual perception. Well read and deeply connected to a circle of poets and philosophers, he made photographs rich in literary allusion. In his last decade, Meatyard kept returning to the tropes of dolls and masks, often photographing his children posed in abandoned houses and landscapes in the environs of his home. These pictures put an uncanny spin on family photography, exploring the contrasts between youth and age, childhood and mortality, intimacy and unknowability, sharing and hiding. Drawn primarily from the photographer’s estate, and including three prints recently acquired by the Fine Arts Museums, this exhibition of almost 60 photographs examines dolls and masks across different bodies of work as a window onto this enigmatic photographer’s larger practice |
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| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CENTER FOR HUMANITIES HOSTS
‘FLORIDA AT THE CROSSROADS’ CONFERENCE
500 YEARS OF ENCOUNTERS, CONFLICTS, AND EXCHANGES WILL BE DISCUSSED |
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| To mark the 500th anniversary of Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León’s landing on the shores of Florida, the University of Miami Center for Humanities will host “Florida at the Crossroads: Five Hundred Years of Encounters, Conflicts, and Exchanges” on February 9-11, 2012. Twenty-six scholars from the State of Florida, around the United States, and Spain will offer a thought-provoking dialogue revisiting the past, heeding the present, and envisioning the future of Florida as a crossroads of peoples, quests, and exchanges. Conference activities are open to the public free of charge and will take place on the UM Coral Gables campus.
The conference is supported by a generous grant from the Florida Humanities Council awarded to the Center for the Humanities and to project director Dr. Viviana Díaz Balsera, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at UM. The event will open on Thursday February 9, 2012, with a keynote address by distinguished colonialist Dr. Raquel Chang-Rodríguez (Graduate Center and City College, City University of New York) on the chronicles describing the early European contact with the indigenous population of La Florida. On Friday February 10, and Saturday February 11, scholars from anthropology, archeology, art history, geography, history, Latin American studies, literature, political science, sociology, Spanish literature, and urban studies will discuss Florida’s past, present, and future. Friday evening, renowned expert on immigration and ethnicity Alex Stepick (Florida International University) will give the second keynote address “Florida: Still on the Edge?” The conference will close Saturday evening with a dramatic reading of “Hail, God of Seeds!” by seventeenth-century Spanish colonial poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, set to period music performed by instrumentalists and choral ensemble. |
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