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The Old, Weird America

Select images from the Frye Art Museum exhibit.

August 17, 2009

 

Eighteen artists in various mediums ponder the blend of fact and fiction in our nation’s history. Greta Pratt, for instance, muses on the many possible faces of Honest Abe in an 18-photo piece that gives us Nineteen Lincolns. Sam Durant’s motorized Pilgrims and Indians, Planting and Reaping, Learning and Teaching, meanwhile, presents a trenchant, two-sided diorama peopled with life-size wax figures. The structure rotates to expose the truth behind a cheesy tableau of Native Americans sharing corn with the original colonists: Captain Myles Standish killing a Pequot Indian whom he felt had insulted him.

The exhibit runs from October 3–January 3. Read more about it and other noteworthy cultural events here.

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