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Ruth St. Denis (1879-1968) and Ted Shawn (1891-1972) pioneered modern dance in the United States with their company Denishawn, founded in 1914. A generation of modern dancers and choreographers, including Martha Graham, trained and first performed with the company. Artists who were inspired by or worked with St. Denis and Shawn include Auguste Rodin, John Singer Sargent, Katherine Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, and Joseph Cornell, among others. While...

This book tells the story of the beginnings, the blossoming, and the eventual banishment of fraternities at Williams College, together with the ensuing transformation of Williams, based in Williamstown, Massachusetts, as the old fraternal order was replaced with a new residential system in the nineteen-sixties and after. A key figure emerged: John Sawyer, president of the college between 1961-1973. In John Chandler's measured recounting of eve...

This catalog accompanies the exhibition Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series, organized by Deborah Rothschild with Miriam Stanton for the Williams College Museum of Art. Presented at: Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, August 18-November 25, 2012, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, March 2-June 30, 2013, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, September 7-December 22...