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| Cultural Protectionism Watch - Article.nationalreview.com Posted: 23 Sep 2010 07:05 PM PDT
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| Two cultural events promote tolerance in East Tennessee - WBIR Posted: 23 Sep 2010 09:14 PM PDT Two East Tennessee events Thursday night promoted understanding and acceptance of different religions and cultures. The City of Morristown held its second annual "Celebration of Cultures," and Knoxville's Muslim community held a seminar called "Understanding Islam in America" at the University of Tennessee. "Down deep inside, we're all the same," said Morristown Mayor Sami Barile. "No matter what we look like, no matter how we walk, how we talk or how we pray." Morristown is growing more diverse. According to the mayor, Hispanics make up 10 percent of the city's population. "I feel good and accepted here in this town," said Diana Chavez Lara. "I don't feel different, so I feel good." Lara immigrated from Mexico to East Tennessee eleven years ago. She keeps herself busy with school, church and a job in the medical field taking care of migrant workers. "We're here to better ourselves and better our communities and help out in whatever way we can," she said. "We're not here to steal jobs or to do anything bad." Muslims also promoted tolerance and greater understanding at the "Understanding Islam in America" seminar at UT Thursday. "We felt like we need to do a better job as a Muslim community to get out there and have some dialog, talk and answer questions," said Muslim Community of Knoxville Board Member Nadeem Siddiq. Less than two weeks ago, a burned copy of the Koran was left at Knoxville's Muslim Community Center. After several other anti-Muslim events across the country and state, UT's Muslim Student Association and the Muslim Community of Knoxville decided to have an event to answer any questions the Knoxville community might have. "When I read the papers and hear about a crime that's been committed, very rarely is religion attached to it unless it's by a Muslim," said Rebbeca Husain, who attended the event. Husain said she is a Muslim but has a lot in common with non-Muslims in Knoxville. She works, eats dinner with her family, watches television and prays. "Events like this are going to help our community grow for the better," Lara said. Fifteen hundred people attended the culture celebration in Morristown last year. They hoped for two thousand participants this year. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| A crucial room: Kitchen design reflects a century of cultural, social change - Republic Posted: 22 Sep 2010 09:19 AM PDT We also have more stories about: Subjects: Places:
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NEW YORK — The kitchen, once tucked away in the basement or a back annex, became a laboratory of modern design in the 20th century. It became a showcase for consumer culture and a symbol of changing gender roles. The changing kitchen is the focus of an exhibit that opened this month at the Museum of Modern Art called "Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen." It comprises almost 300 works, all from the museum's collection, including design objects, architectural plans, posters, photographs, archival films, prints and paintings. The inspiration was the acquisition last year of the "Frankfurt Kitchen," on view for the first time at the Modern. Designed by German modernist architect Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky from 1926-1927, it was one of about 10,000 kitchens built as part of an affordable housing initiative in Frankfurt after World War I. The Frankfurt Kitchen exemplifies the early 20th century belief in the transformative power of design, particularly as a way to transform the lives of working people. Compact and ergonomic, it integrated appliances, work and storage space in a new way. "The design embodies the concerns of the modern movement: efficiency, hygiene, standardization and social concerns," says the show's curator, Juliet Kinchin. It also is the museum's earliest work by a woman architect. Another example of standardization on display: the brown paper bag. The flat-bottomed paper grocery bag was developed by Charles Stillwell for the Union Paper Bag Machine Company in Philadelphia, and was first patented in the United States in 1883. The show also features a lithograph from Frank Lloyd Wright's "American System-Built Houses," a folio in which he illustrated different ways to configure factory-produced, standardized building components. After World War II, a burgeoning consumer culture in the United States was fed by corporations that capitalized on wartime research into new materials and technologies. Kitchen products such as the Tupper Corporation's nesting refrigerator bowls and the Chemex Coffee Maker were symbols of an economic boom that contrasted with the postwar deprivations in Europe. Photographs of the 1959 "Kitchen Debate" between President Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev exemplify the political implications of the sleek, 20th century American kitchen. In the 1950s, kitchens were still considered the domain of women, but there was interest in making the work easier. An article on display titled "New Kitchen Built to Fit Your Wife" (Popular Science, September 1953) describes a test kitchen developed at Cornell University's Housing Research Center in 1952 to ease work based on time-motion studies. The reemergence of European design during the 1960s and '70s is highlighted by "Spazio Viva," a hinged, mobile kitchen on castors that incorporates a stove, small refrigerator, pullout cutting board and storage space. It was designed in 1968 by Virgilio Forchiassin for the Italian company Snaidero, and is "a kind of Frankfurt Kitchen for a younger, more affluent generation. And you can take it with you when you move," Kinchin says. The "Counter Space" exhibit ends with examples of how contemporary artists have used the kitchen as a backdrop for statements about gender, economics and politics. Those include Cindy Sherman's film stills with groceries in a kitchen, William Eggleston's photographs of the inside of an oven and freezer, and Laurie Simmons' photos of dollhouse scenes, which she has said express feelings about domestic life. "It's interesting for me that a picture can be so colorful and so bright and so vivacious and so lonely at the same time," Simmons has said. "Counter Space" runs through March 14. ___ Online: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1062 This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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