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Cincinnati Museum Center’s GOLD Exhibit to Feature General Lytle’s Medal

Friday, February 26th, 2010

[ February 6, 2010 to May 16, 2010. ] The Cincinnati Museum Center will host GOLD, an exhibit that “explores the splendor of the world’s most valued mineral.” According to CMC’s Mosaic magazine, the exhibit will allow visitors to “Follow gold from the molten depths of the Earth to glittering examples of jewelry and artifacts, from gold rushes that shaped the world to the [...]

Cincinnati Art Museum: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War

Friday, March 19th, 2010

[ February 20, 2010 to May 2, 2010. ] Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

“I wanted to make work where the viewer wouldn’t walk away; he would either giggle nervously, get pulled into history, into fiction, into something totally demeaning and possibly very beautiful.”  -Kara Walker

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