Among the displays are ceramic figures, scale models and paintings that narrate indigenous traditions in the Andes cordillera, from the first settlements dating back 15,000 years to the birth of the Tiwanaku state and the rise of the Incan empire.
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Washington Post,
Washington Post,
20 Sep. 2019
Away to the west, mountains rode the horizons, granite faced, severe, not the Andes yet, but the cordillera of the pre-Andes.
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Stanley Stewart,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Aug. 2019
Combining political commentary with unabashed aesthetic pleasure, Wilding’s oeuvre both models new worlds and mounts critiques of the existing order of things.
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Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
4 Feb. 2025
The focus now shifts to how the Trump administration will navigate deportation policies as pressure mounts to handle large-scale removals while ensuring humane treatment of migrants.
Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.
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Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
14 Nov. 2022
Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley’s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon.
Estimates of the number of Black people killed range from dozens to hundreds.
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Essence,
Essence,
8 Feb. 2025
Tim Jackson, owner of Urban Lighting, is a big fan of LED technology and believes an Edison base, or screw-in LED lamp is preferable, especially in a warmer color range (2700k to 3000k).
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Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2025
The Warriors are hopeful that Curry, who got over the back-to-back hump by playing both legs last week, will be available for both games but will act with the big picture in mind.
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Danny Emerman,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
Though pundits and fans pegged Buffalo to finally get over the playoff hump and into the Super Bowl, that will not be the case.
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