Professor Ivan Gaskell
Research Associate in North American Ethnology, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Professor of Cultural History, Bard Graduate Center
38 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024
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Recent Presentations
- Felicity Meshoulam Memorial Lecture, National Gallery, 2001
- Annual Interpretation Theory Lecture, Swarthmore College, 2001
- Slade Lecture, Oxford University, 2002
- Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Memorial Lecture, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2003
- Lecture on Drawings, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2004
- Edmonia Lewis Lecture, Case Western Reserve University, 2005
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Thanks to Lewis Carroll who used his character to ridicule the notion that a word means whatever its utterer wants it to mean, such as, "Truth is what I say it is, despite being a lie." Familiar? t.co/h4yxD0us7L
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There's nothing like a bit of snow in the night to freshen up the appearance of Leo's Hobie Cat in the front yard. t.co/FQU5tjouOp
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There's a rather good Paul Manship exhibition at the Addison Gallery, Phillips Andover Academy, north of Boston. Here's the Venus Anadyomene fountain in the entrance hall. There's an artists' residency program at his former house, Starfield, on Cape Ann. t.co/65aG9fV689
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Edward Gibbon wrote trenchantly about walls built to exclude barbarians. Of the ignominious failure of the wall erected by Probus: "But the experience of the world, from China to Britain, has exposed the vain attemptof fortifying any extensive tract of country." t.co/xPXdcvoQC6
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@Kadzis You do yourself an injustice! But perhaps we should commission Bruce Nauman to fabricate a version with just a little more space between the cages... Happy New Year!
