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The High Constable (Tai Wai) The Administration (Heng Fai) The God of the Sea (Minor Hoi Fan) By Matthew H. Robb In the summer of 2017, the Fowler presented How to Make the Universe Right, an exhibition of rare religious scrolls, ceremonial clothing, and ritual objects of the Yao,...
Mary-Joan Gerson retells a Brazilian story of how night was brought to earth from the sea. Before the arrival of darkness, there was “only sunlight and brightness and heat.” When a daughter of African goddess Iemanja leaves her ocean home to marry “a son of...
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by Katherine Smith In Fabiola Jean-Louis’ photograph, Marie Antoinette is Dead, a Black woman leans back into a sumptuous pillowed seat, her body language suggesting casual, unflappable self-possession. She wears a voluptuous blue dress with pink accents, in a style and color that would have been...
