{"id":1849,"date":"2011-06-07T14:27:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T18:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2011-06-08T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T20:39:15","slug":"meanwhile-at-the-centre-pompidou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/2011\/06\/07\/meanwhile-at-the-centre-pompidou\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile at the Centre Pompidou&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment1857\" style=\"width: 268px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunilgupta.net\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment1857\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1857   \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/files\/2011\/06\/langstonp37g.gif\" alt=\"Photo Still by Sunil Gupta from the film, Looking for Langston\" width=\"258\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment1857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Still by Sunil Gupta from the film, Looking for Langston<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I also saw the show, <em>Paris-Delhi-Bombay&#8230;<\/em>which asks &#8220;what is India today?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The work of over 50 artists from India and France seeks to cover six aspects of Indian society: politics, religion, the home, arts and crafts, town planning and the environment, and identity.\u00a0 Although it is the largest democracy in the world and an economic power, India remains a mystery to many in France and this show is an effort to begin a conversation between the two cultures.\u00a0 The work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunilgupta.net\/\">Sunil Gupta<\/a>, perhaps India&#8217;s best known photographer, was included (image above).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The exhibit demonstrates how open the French are to other cultures, while also showing those cultures in a somewhat idealized state.\u00a0 As often happens, the depiction of another culture no matter how well intended, cannot entirely escape its own cultural assumptions. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I also saw the show, Paris-Delhi-Bombay&#8230;which asks &#8220;what is India today?&#8221; The work of over 50 artists from India and France seeks to cover six aspects of Indian society: politics, religion, the home, arts and crafts, town planning and the environment, and identity.\u00a0 Although it is the largest democracy in the world and an economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2057],"tags":[6106,648,1401,6107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}