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  • Memory in Place, Part 1

    Memory in Place, Part 1

    by Adrienne Skye Roberts

    What role does site play in the memorialization of a movement as historically important as the fight for racial justice? What transpires between the imagination and the actual site of history? If there was a psychic energy with which I was reckoning in Greensboro, it was agitated by my seemingly insoluble questions and yet, I returned to this site day after day as though this ritual would provide me with the answers.
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  • Hooshing and the Nexus of Clothing: A Conversation with J. Morgan Puett

    Hooshing and the Nexus of Clothing: A Conversation with J. Morgan Puett

    by Scott Oliver

    Mildred’s Lane is a collaboration, between Mark Dion and myself, in which we’ve turned our 92-plus-acre property into a new contemporary art complexity, which is another way of saying, an interesting experiment as a museum. But it’s not really a museum, although it’s produced all of this history.
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