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Michael DiSanto breaks down Saturday's UFC 152 co-main event between Joseph Benavidez and Demetrious Johnson...
What's up with the little fellas?
That is the uninformed reaction I often receive when I begin talking about grown men who weigh 125 pounds fighting each other. Then, it is typically followed by an asinine statement along the lines of "there is no 125-pound man in the world who can whip my [insert favorite term for rear end]...my girlfriend weighs that much."
That sort of talk typically comes out of the mouth of someone who weighs somewhere in the 180-pound vicinity. But that isn't a fighting weight 180 pounds. We're talking very out of shape walking around 180 pounds. Translate that into a real fighting weight, and we're now talking about somewhere in the 135- to 145-pound range. Of course, that is if Mr. Bigmouth would even have the stones to fight at any weight. But that is a different op-ed piece altogether.
The informed reaction is more along these lines: "How insanely fast and well conditioned are those guys? Watching them fight is like watching light heavyweights compete with the DVR on fast forward, except they never seem to get tired."
Now, that is more like it.
No two UFC competitors embody that thought more closely than Joseph Benavidez and Demetrious Johnson, which is probably why they are currently considered the top two 125-pound fighters on the planet. On Saturday night, the pair will square off to crown the inaugural UFC flyweight champion.
On paper, the two combatants are almost mirror images of each other. When they stand across from each other inside the Octagon, they will look very similar physically, and both men entered the sport with a solid amateur wrestling background – Benavidez with one year of collegiate competition and a high school state championship; Johnson with a couple of near misses in the high school state finals.
Both challenged Dominick Cruz for a 135-pound world championship – Benavidez two years ago in the WEC; Johnson last year in the UFC. Both lost by judges' decision in entertaining fights.
Both have one UFC post-fight award on their relatively brief UFC resumes – Benavidez earned Knockout of the Night honors in his last bout; Johnson earned Fight of the Night honors two fights ago.
Both have competed 18 times as professional mixed martial artists with only two losses. Each of those losses came by way of judges' decision. Neither has been knocked out or submitted as a professional. And both tend to win by submission more than any other outcome.
Seems like a pretty even matchup, doesn't it? It certainly does from my standpoint. But there are some key differentiators that could ultimately decide the fight on Saturday night.
Statisticians often claim that numbers don't lie. If that is the case, then this matchup seems to favor Johnson.
Interestingly enough, "Mighty Mouse" is both the more accurate striker and also the more successful wrestler, if one is judging purely by fight stats. In the nine fights tracked by FightMetric, Johnson has landed an average of 44 out of 90 strikes, which translates into a 44% connect rate. Compare that to Benavidez, who in 12 fights tracked by FightMetric, has landed only 28.5 out of 91 strikes. That is a major difference.
Some of that, of course, is due to the fact that Benavidez sits down a bit more on his punches. That is evidenced by the fact that he has a slight career knockout advantage over Johnson. The rest is due to the fact that Benavidez throws a higher percentage of his strikes from the standing position, rather than on the ground, which will naturally lead to a lower connect rate.
Johnson has also been the more effective wrestler in his fights, both offensively and defensively. He is successful on 54% of his takedown attempts and shuts down 55% of his opponent's takedowns. Compare that to Benavidez, who has only succeeded on 22% of his takedowns and avoided 48% of his opponent's efforts to take him to the ground.
Game over, right? If Johnson is the more accurate striker and the better in-fight wrestler, then he should have few problems solving the Benavidez puzzle, right?
I actually think this is a matchup that favors Benavidez simply because he is the better finisher, which helps mitigate the risk of a crazy judges' decision. To quantify that statement, the Team Alpha Male standout has scored knockouts or submissions in four of his 10 UFC/WEC fights. Compare that to Johnson, who has only won inside the distance once in eight UFC/WEC bouts.
What that tells me is that Benavidez likes to live a bit more on the edge than Johnson. He is going to throw bombs in search of a knockout. If the fight hits the ground, he will be hammering away for a stoppage, while remaining keenly aware of opportunities to slap on a submission.
Johnson, by contrast, will more likely come out with a stick-and-move game plan that is designed to allow him to score while looking for a takedown. Once on the ground, his game plan will likely focus more on control than damage. That is often a very effective strategy, but it also means that the more explosive Benavidez will likely have 25 minutes to find a mistake that leads to a stoppage.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not suggesting that Johnson can't win inside the distance. That is certainly possible. History merely suggests otherwise, so I'm suggesting that a knockout or submission win by Johnson isn't probable.
Similarly, I'm not suggesting that Benavidez won't win by decision. He certainly has the skills and gas tank to do just that. But he is the much more likely of the two to win inside the distance. And that is what makes me lean toward Benavidez on Saturday night.
Joseph Benavidez
• 28 years old
• 5'4, 125 lbs
• 16-2 overall
• 4-fight winning streak
• 4-1 in last 5 fights
• 8-2 in last 10 fights
• Both career losses to current reigning Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz
• 0-1 in UFC/WEC title fights
• 25.0% of wins by KO/TKO
• 50% of wins by submission
• 25% of wins by decision
• Knockout of the Night winner
• Current layoff is 203 days
• Longest layoff of career is 230 days
Demetrious Johnson
• 26 years old
• 5'3, 125 lbs
• 15-2-1 overall
• 3-1-1 in last 5 fights
• 7-2-1 in last 10
• 0-1 in UFC title fights
• 20% of career wins by KO/TKO
• 40% of career wins by SUB
• 40% of career wins by decision
• Fight of the Night winner
• Current layoff is 106 days
• Longest layoff of his career is 366 days


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A bill aimed at punishing Russia for sending its forces into Crimea by imposing sanctions on Moscow and providing economic aid to Ukraine has passed a key vote in the U.S. Senate.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 14-3 to pass the measure that authorizes $1 billion in loan guarantees to the new government in Kiev as well as the freezing certain Russian assets in the U.S.
The three votes against the bill came from Republican lawmakers whose "objections include how the U.S. will pay for the loan guarantees and provisions in the bill expanding the lending authority of the International Monetary Fund," The Associated Press says.
The bill also directs the Obama administration to help the new Ukraine government identify and recover illegal assets claimed by the country's ousted pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, as well as members of his family and government.
The committee's chair, Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, writes in The Washington Post:
"[Russian President Vladimir] Putin has miscalculated by starting a game of Russian roulette with the international community, but we refuse to blink, and we will never accept this violation of international law.
"The unity of purpose displayed at the U.N. Security Council, by the European Union and the Group of Seven nations in support of Ukrainian autonomy and in opposition to Russian authoritarianism demonstrates the world's outrage and will serve as a call to action."
"If approved by the full Senate, the bill would have to pass the House to become law. Even if it passes, the bill is not expected to be finalized until later in March; Congress leaves Washington on Friday for a week-long recess.
"The Obama administration has been pushing Congress for a year to approve a shift of $63 billion from an IMF crisis fund to its general accounts to maintain U.S. influence at the lender and make good on a commitment from 2010.
"Some Republicans worry about the IMF's lending to richer European nations and possible losses on loans by the fund.
"Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, said he opposed including the IMF reforms in the bill. 'This legislation is supposed to be about assisting Ukraine and punishing Russia,' he said in a statement."
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Past Exhibitions
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Past Exhibitions
This single-work installation presents Silueta Sangrienta, a short film that opens with the artist lying nude, facing upward on the earth's surface. Her body disappears to reveal a silhouette carved into the muddy surface below, which is then filled with a vibrant red liquid. The title of the film translates to "Bloody Silhouette" in Spanish.
Beninese artist Romuald Hazoumè's masks are narrative sculptures memorializing people, places, and moments. Composed mostly of plastic gasoline containers and other discarded materials, the masks are a voucher for reuse, resilience, and rebuilding.
vanessa german* (b. 1976) is an artist, activist, performer, and poet. THE RAREST BLACK WOMAN ON THE PLANET EARTH is german's response to the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, an early 20th-century cabinet of curiosities at Mount Holyoke. For the exhibition, german began with a question: "How do we decolonize a thing, a museum, a collection?" Her answer turned into an emancipatory endeavor: to touch every object in the Skinner collection.
Throughout history, the conceptual boundaries of Indigeneity have been predominantly shaped, broadened, and constrained by settler colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy.
Ranging from portraits to fragmented figures, the works in this exhibition serve as meditations on physical and psychological states of being. The suggested presence—and sometimes absence—of the human figure evokes a tension between the mysterious and the concrete, the real and the imagined.
Explore an interactive 3D model of the exhibition as part of our 3D Museum Spring 2022
This exhibition series celebrates the landmark bequest of the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum to the College in 1946.
Rosamond Purcell has spent a lifetime creating photographs, sculpture, and texts about collectors and collections. This exhibition presents photographs from Purcell's multiyear exploration of the diverse collections accumulated by Joseph Allen Skinner. Purcell's work reveals new discoveries and finds beauty in the overlooked.
Explore an interactive 3D model of the exhibition as part of our 3D Museum Spring 2022
During the 2019–2020 academic year, eight Mount Holyoke College professors participated in a year-long faculty seminar in collaboration with the museum, and centered on art acquisition. Throughout the year, faculty members engaged in critical dialogue around the pedagogical needs of their classrooms and the resource of the collection, introducing art and material culture new to the museum that would support their teaching.
Alternate Endings: Conversations on Climate Change puts objects from the Museum's collection in dialogue with new student-created artworks. Student work was on view in the Hinchcliff Reception Hall from January 29 - February 28, 2020, while a selection of artwork from the Museum's permanent collection was on display in the Carson Teaching Gallery from January 29 - February 2, 2020.
Money comes in a surprising multitude of forms and serves a variety of functions. We can trade it, we can hoard it, we can use it to measure our debts. However, Money Matters: Meaning, Power, and Change in the History of Currency demonstrates that money is much more.
A beach in De Haan, Belgium, might seem like an unusual place to think about money and exchange. Yet for nearly a century, French and Flemish speaking boys and girls have gathered here each summer, creating an economy of paper flowers, paid for with handfuls of shells gathered from the shore. The children use shells because, as one of them calmly observes, "children don't give each other real money . . .
In the Making: The Mount Holyoke College Printmaking Workshop celebrates the work of artists and printers who participated in the College's Printmaking Workshop between 1984 and 2012. Through the display of preparatory drawings, proofs, and archival images, alongside the stunning prints themselves, the exhibition illuminates the creative modalities underlying each artist's approach to the medium.
Mount Holyoke Afire examines three devastating blazes that had a significant impact on the College in 1896, 1917, and 1922. This show looks at the photographic record of the original Seminary building, Williston Hall, and Rockefeller Hall before, during, and after the fires and uses objects to reconstruct what daily life was like in these buildings and contextualize what was lost.
The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum is honored to host nine works by 19th and 20th-century African American artists for a special two-year loan from the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Life/Like presents works from two recent series by emerging artist Martine Gutierrez (American, b. 1989) that consider themes of transformation, intimacy, identity, and reality. A nuanced exploration of gender roles lies at the heart of much of Gutierrez's work. Her interest in boundaries—especially artificial boundaries—often leads Gutierrez to play with the viewer's expectations and perception of reality.
Celebrating Ten Years of Teaching with Art
Inspired by the broad interpretative possibility of objects, Major Themes is an innovative, two-year exhibition that brings thought-provoking dialogues from the Museum's teaching classroom into its public galleries.
Collection Spotlight
This spotlight features works by photographer and member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation, Zig Jackson (b. 1957) in conversation with early 20th-century photographs by Edward Curtis (1868-1952) and Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1914). In his work, Jackson challenges deeply ingrained popular concepts of Native Americans and encourages viewers to embrace the narratives that people tell us about themselves.
Curated by Mac Chambers '19
Joan Jonas and the Mirror
Once called the "Mother of all Performance Art," Joan Jonas '58 has used mirrors in her groundbreaking multimedia works since the late 1960s. From early performances captured on 16mm film, to recent installation pieces, Jonas uses the concept of the mirror to show us that images are not facts, but reflections of our individual imaginations and assumptions.
African American painter and printmaker Curlee Raven Holton reinvents Shakespeare's Othello in this series of ten etchings, created during an artist residency at the Venice Printmaking Studio in 2012. At once aesthetically decadent and psychologically raw, Holton's sepia-toned prints explore the inner life and public persona of the Moor of Venice, bringing to his story contemporary ideas about race, identity, and love.
Spotlight on Quilts
This exhibition features quilts by Sisters in Stitches Joined by the Cloth, a quilting guild with members from the greater Boston area, South Shore, Springfield, and Worcester. These artists depict stories of the African American struggle, from slavery to the racial conflicts of the present day.
Harriet L. and Paul M. Weissman Gallery, Anne Greer and Fredric B. Garonzik Family Gallery, and Gump Family Gallery
The Quilts of Mary Lee Bendolph
The central link in three generations of quiltmakers from Gee's Bend, Alabama, Mary Lee Bendolph (b. 1935) is celebrated for her bold compositions and improvisational quilting style.
Collection Spotlight
This collection spotlight puts two very different objects in conversation: an optically dazzling 19th-century quilt with the tumbling blocks pattern and artist Michelle Grabner's 2016 untitled bronze sculpture of a crocheted blanket. Voices, stories, and photographs may fade or disappear with time, yet through these works, tangible and deeply personal objects persist as a mode of communication and connection across generations.
Collection Spotlight
Mary Woolley accomplished many feats in her 36-year term as president of Mount Holyoke College. Today, she is remembered for laying a foundation for LGBTQ inclusiveness at the College.
3D Models Then and Now
Curated by Carla Gonzalez-Vazquez '19, this display features a selection of historical plaster models of geometric surfaces alongside contemporary mathematical models created with 3D printing technology.
Co-sponsored with the Mount Holyoke College Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
Tango for Page Turning
South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) is internationally-recognized for his film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance. For more than three decades, his work has explored contentious political systems such as colonialism, totalitarianism, and apartheid through powerful allegorical imagery and theater.
Photographs by Berenice Abbott
One of the great photographers of the twentieth century, Berenice Abbott documented the rapidly changing world around her from the streets of New York City to the impact of new scientific discoveries. This exhibition explores Abbott's groundbreaking images that illustrate fundamental physical laws, which she captured with precision and stark beauty.
Nineteenth-Century Sculpture and Its Afterlives
Presenting more than a dozen statuettes from the Museum's collection, this exhibition invites viewers to experience a century of European and American sculpture, dating from 1890 to 1990. The works have been selected and researched by Dr. Gülru Çakmak and her students in the seminar "Modernizing Sculpture from Canova to Duchamp," offered at UMass Amherst in fall 2016.
Collection Spotlight
Thirty years ago, Mount Holyoke College opened its world-class Equestrian Center. Considered one of the best college facilities for competitive riding and riding education in the United States, the building supports Mount Holyoke's top-ranked riding program, which was founded in 1920. This collection spotlight honors the Equestrian Center's anniversary by exploring two objects relating to the tradition and practice of horseback riding.
In 57 BCE, the philosopher and politician Cicero described the Roman home as "the most hallowed place on earth…the center of worship, religion, and domestic ritual." While many people today are familiar with the Olympian gods and goddesses and the monumental, marble temples of ancient Rome, the religious practice that took place in the privacy of Roman domestic spaces is new to most.
Goodnow Park, the Pepper Box, and Lake Nonotuck
From the mid-1880s to World War I, Goodnow Park, Lake Nonotuck, and the Pepper Box were lively sites of Mount Holyoke College activities. Today these place-names have been all but forgotten. Drawing from the College's Archives and Special Collections, this exhibition highlights a rich collection of postcards, photographs, stereopticon views and glass negatives that offer an excursion into the years between 1879 and 1920.
Recent Acquisitions in Honor of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum's 140th Anniversary
The fall of 2016 marks the 140th anniversary of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum—a milestone shared by only a handful of collegiate art museums in the United States. Since its founding, visionary donors have given countless works of extraordinary beauty and cultural significance to the Museum's collection. The recent past has been no exception.
Native America and the Early Tourist Market
What should be considered art, and how do we define terms like fine art, decorative art, craft, and utilitarian? This collection spotlight, curated by Mount Holyoke College history major Allyson LaForge '16 examines 19th- and early 20th-century objects made by Ojibwe, Haida, and Apsáalooke (Crow) craftspeople to discuss a category of material culture often described as tourist items or souvenirs.
Collection Spotlight
Curated by Lynda Teller Pete, a fifth-generation weaver from the Newcomb and Two Grey Hills areas of the Navajo Nation, this collection spotlight focuses on a ca. 1935-1940 Navajo weaving of Yei figures.
Ceremonial Imagery in Navajo Weaving
For Navajo women, the act of weaving has a sacred dimension since, according to tradition, they learned their craft from a supernatural being named Spider Woman. In the distant past, they wove warm blankets for their personal use and, on occasion, for intertribal barter.
Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz, 1979-1989
In the text to his 1985 photo-essay A Summer's Day, Joel Meyerowitz describes his photographs as "fragile paper timeships dusted with information." A master of color photography for more than four decades, Meyerowitz catches fleeting sensations in his images, rather than just objects or observations. The source information "dusted" across his prints is often as intangible as his metaphor suggests.
Judy Pfaff 1985/92
The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum recently acquired Judy Pfaff's Wallabout (1986) and this exhibition celebrates the historical moment in the artist's career when she made that sculpture. Between 1985 and 1992, Pfaff created large-scale, multi-media works that bridge, both conceptually and physically, the surface of the wall and the space of the gallery.
Collection Spotlight
Arnaldo Pomodoro is known for his imposing bronze sculptures in public sites like Vatican City in Rome and the United Nations Plaza in New York. Born in 1926, he began his career in the wake of World War II, as a consultant for the reconstruction of damaged public buildings in his native Italy.
Illustrating Philosophy
How can a work of art illustrate an abstract philosophical idea?
Exploring themes of absence and abundance, entropy and energy, this new installation brings together highlights from the Museum's continuously expanding holdings in contemporary art.
Director's Choice
The idea for this exhibition comes from something that the artist Joseph Cornell said: "Who knows what one object will have to say to another?" The joy of working with a broad permanent collection lies in having opportunities to explore the idea that objects—metaphorically—speak to one another when they are on display.
Collection Spotlight
Ellen Lanyon (1926-2013) was a celebrated artist associated with a movement of representational painters known as the Chicago Imagists. She created fantastical works throughout her sixty-year career, including the series on view, titled Beyond the Borders, which captures Lanyon's fascination with both design and the natural world.
An Artistic Legacy in Prints
Featuring 23 woodblock prints, this exhibition explores the establishment and development of the printmaking tradition of the Yoshida family, which produced multiple generations of print makers. In the 1920s, Yoshida Hiroshi—the key figure of this exhibition—turned to printmaking from his original oil-painting training and created a series of naturalistic prints that attracted domestic and international collectors.
Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection
Henri Matisse drew constantly, and his direct, elegant draftsmanship has become a hallmark of modern art. This exhibition features Matisse drawings from across 50 years: 1900-1950. We thank Ellsworth Kelly for making a brilliant and discerning selection and for conceiving a stunning presentation of these drawings.
by Ellsworth Kelly, 1964-66
Ellsworth Kelly began making lithographs in Paris with Maeght Editions in 1964 and over the next few years created a seminal body of work. This exhibition focuses on the series of botanical images the artist made during this period. These works are both an homage to and bold departure from Matisse's evocative line drawings.
Curated by John R. Stomberg, Florence Finch Abbott Director
Collection Spotlight
An installation of Carrie Mae Weems's I Looked and Looked to See What So Terrified You (2006) continues the Museum's series of permanent collection spotlights this fall. In this diptych, the artist portrays herself wearing a beautifully quilted dress as she looks into a handheld mirror. Each panel is the mirror image of the other. Typical of Weems's conceptual photography, the images operate on several levels simultaneously.
Contextualizing 6,000 Years of Ceramics
Through innovation and exchange, vessels made of clay have contributed to the lives of people all across the economic spectrum, through time, and across the world. This exhibition highlights the ceramic collection of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, which spans five continents and six thousand years.
Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson
Inside/Outside explores the contrasting photographic sensibilities of Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson in the middle of the twentieth century. Although the two men knew and respected each other and even exhibited together, they could not have been more different in their ways with the camera. For Evans, a bookish Midwesterner, photography was a deliberate art.
New Worlds
This exhibition features six of Anatsui's large-scale sculptures—five are wall mounted and one extends into the viewers' space across the floor. The works are all constructed in Anatsui's signature technique of joining the bands and caps of liquor bottles into broad expanses of flexible sculpture.
A Collection Spotlight
This collection spotlight features an iconic piece of early 18th-century Massachusetts furniture, the Museum's "EK" Hadley chest. This examination of the object explores the design and construction that defines this furniture tradition, the provenance of the Museum's example, and the significance of these objects that were commissioned for young Western Massachusetts women.
A Collection Spotlight
In celebration of the continuing fascination with Bierstadt's painting, Hetch Hetchy Canyon, this spring the Museum will feature its iconic work alongside special guests in a Collection Spotlight. On loan from private collection, two of the artist's other western paintings will also be on display. These loans demonstrate Bierstadt's continuing concern with the plight of the natural world and provide context for artist and his work.
Photographs Along the New England Trail/ Barbara Bosworth
TO BE AT THE FARTHER EDGE: Photographs along the New England Trail/Barbara Bosworth is presented by the National Park Service in cooperation with the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Connecticut Forest & Park Association.
The Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcut
Layering impressions from multiple carved blocks, the chiaroscuro woodcut is hardly discernible as a relief print, but instead appears to be fashioned with a painter's fluid brush. These remarkable prints reveal the intricate commercial relationship between painters, woodcarvers, publishers, and patrons, and explore the timeless debate of what is an original work of art.
Of Echoes and Grace
Using pictures she finds in books, magazines, and catalogues as raw material, the artist Lorna Bieber transforms images through copying and cropping, expanding and contracting, until she has individual elements that fit into her vision for a completed work. Her multi-paneled montages rely on the relationships between the parts to create complexity.
Landscapes from the Permanent Collection
Although landscapes are often seen as views of static and unchanging nature, in fact they are engaged with and affected by human processes, both visible and unseen. Landscape art interprets, edits, and updates space; it is necessarily viewed and considered through the human eye.
This World Through the Lens of New Media Art
The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and Streaming Museum have collaborated to produce an exhibition entitled Brave New Perspectives: This World Through the Lens of New Media Art. The exhibition superimposes four new media works with questions designed to encourage visitors to critically engage with new media art. An accompanying blog, accessible via an iPad mounted in the exhibition space, further encourages dialogue.
This exhibition explores the multiplicity of views of Rome that appear in prints produced from the 16th to the 18th century. Artists such as Giovanni Battista Piranesi captured the shifting balance between ancient and modern that defined the Eternal City as it went through three centuries of extensive changes.
An Andy Warhol Production
Andy Warhol once pinpointed the ideal condition for taking a good picture. Thinking of paparazzi out to catch "a famous person doing something unfamous," the artist perversely suggested that the key to photography was "being in the right place at the wrong time.
Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
Throughout her career, Kara Walker has combined exquisite technique with biting social commentary. Her large-scale print suite Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) is considered by many to be her quintessential work in a multiple format and among the most important works in her oeuvre to date.
The Janet Hickey Tague '66 Collection
This exhibition features a selection of outstanding works on paper by prominent African American artists, all produced at the acclaimed Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI) at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. On view are a range of printmaking processes including serigraphs, relief prints, color etchings, and lithographs by eight internationally renowned artists: Emma Amos, David C.
Faces of the Ancient Americas
To 16th-century European observers, artifacts of indigenous Mesoamerican and South American peoples possessed a scintillating foreignness that was simultaneously alluring and frightening. The perceived primitiveness of these objects persisted for centuries, with the first exhibitions of Ancient American art not appearing in the United States until the 1930s and '40s.
Contemporary Art from the Collection
The contemporary relief sculptures brought together in this exhibition are of many descriptions. Though relief is probably not the first form that comes to mind when we think of contemporary art, it is actually quite prevalent.
The 2012 Mount Holyoke College Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
The Art Museum is honored to feature this exhibition of recent work by the studio art faculty of Mount Holyoke College.
World Documents brings together the work and ideas of important, thoughtful, and eloquent contemporary photographers. Presenting their work as competing approaches to the practice of documentary photography, it places their projects in a global setting and meditates on the possibilities and limitations facing the socially concerned photographer today.
Selections from the Permanent Collection
Two landmark projects transformed American photography in 1955. In that year, Edward Steichen unveiled a blockbuster exhibition called The Family of Man at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Arts of the Ancient Americas
"All the days of my life I have seen nothing that rejoiced my heart so much as these things, for I saw amongst them wonderful works of art, and I marveled at the subtle Ingenia of people in foreign lands."
How does one gain an understanding of antiquity from looking at works of art? In a series of thematic groupings of objects from ancient Greece and Rome, Reconstructing Antiquity explores daily life in the ancient world, representations of ancient women, and aspects of storytelling and mythology.
From the tilling of the soil to the washing of the dishes, nearly every step in food's journey from production to consumption has been represented in the visual arts. Whether planted or hunted, cooked or purchased, eaten as basic sustenance or in celebration, food has worked its way into numerous prints, drawings, and photographs, as the focus of a composition or as an accessory.
Rituals, Remedies, and Revelry
Wine has been instrumental in nurturing the human spirit since ancient times. No beverage or potion has a longer history than wine, whose transformative effects on both body and spirit were recognized from its beginnings in the Neolithic age. But until recently, no serious art exhibition coupled the histories of wine and art in a cross-disciplinary fashion.
Photography Goes Public
In 1930s America, a newly defined mode of photographic expression, "documentary," tried to address the extraordinary trauma visited upon common people, who were daily struggling with poverty and hunger, disenfranchisement and displacement. Documentary photography, then and in subsequent generations, helped Americans understand the Great Depression and, at a time when the promises of industrial capitalism seemed in doubt, helped them interpret
Making Connections
How do culture, medium, and time period influence the depiction of a subject? Focusing on new purchases and gifts that reinterpret works from the collection, the exhibition Crossing Boundaries/Making Connections and its companion brochure cluster works across time and geography into nine groups and examines contextual influence
Exploring The Art of Devotion
The expressive power of visual art to articulate important religious values as well as complicated spiritual beliefs has been utilized by artists throughout the ages. From elaborate sculptures representing important deities, to paintings of sacred spaces, to small vessels that mediate contact between the earthly realm and the divine, devotional artwork has served an essential function for those pursuing spiritual understanding.
Panel Painting in Early Renaissance Italy
At heart a collaborative venture, the creation of early fifteenth-century panel paintings in Italy depended upon a tight network of connections between patrons, painters, woodworkers, and gilders. The product of these interactions was an object that served both as a focus for devotion, and as an emphatic statement about wealth and status.
Lisette Model and Her Successors brings together for the first time a selection of 120 vintage works by Lisette Model, one of the last century's most significant photographers together with 12 of her illustrious students who went on to leave their own marks on American photographic history: Diane Arbus, Bruce Cratsley, Elaine Ellman, Larry Fink, Peter Hujar, Raymond Jacobs, Ruth Kaplan, Leon Levinstein, Eva Rubinstein, Gary Schneider,
Dance & Dancers features both well-known and seldom-seen treasures from the Museum's collection, a few judicious loans, and some outstanding new acquisitions appearing in the galleries for the first time. The Museum's holdings now number over 15,000, but only a small selection are on view at any given time for reasons of space and conservation. Thematically based shows like this one provide a welcome occasion to explore the coll
Works on Paper
How do our particular memories, histories and traditions inform us as individuals and shape the marks we leave on the world? For more than 40 years, Faith Ringgold has been formulating answers to this question in the paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and—perhaps most famously—quilts in which she documents her experiences as an African-American woman, mother, daughter, and artist.
Women, Work, and Wardrobe 1865-1940
Images of women portrayed as professionals, athletes and intellectuals are common today, but until the late nineteenth century, such representations of strong self-reliant women were virtually absent from the visual arts and literature. What Can a Woman Do?, provides an engaging and informative window into the ways that women's identities and attitudes are forged on the stage of visual culture.


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The special issue will be composed of a lead guest editor and a team of guest editors. The lead guest editor is encouraged to invite researchers from related fields to join the special issue as guest editors. Whether you serve as the lead guest editor or one of guest editors, you will be entitled to the following benefits while also shouldering corresponding responsibilities:
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Be awarded a certificate of honor (electronic version) | ||
Get your name listed on the journal's website | ||
Be at the forefront of scientific communications | ||
Contribute to and receive recognition from the academic community | ||
Assemble and work with a strong team of editors |
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Recruit a guest editor team to review the manuscripts submitted to the special issue | ||
Promote your special issue and invite authors to submit manuscripts | ||
Make decisions on the acceptance or rejection of submitted manuscripts | ||
Cross-check the manuscripts and ensure their quality | ||
Conduct peer review for the manuscripts submitted to the special issue | ||
Ensure that the peer review process is fair, unbiased, and timely |
Publishing articles in a special issue presents authors with many substantial advantages. By contributing to a special issue, researchers can not only increase their visibility within their field but also have the opportunity to present their work to amplify its significance. Furthermore, being part of a special issue fosters collaboration and networking among experts, while providing a platform to explore cutting-edge developments and contribute to the overall advancement of the field.
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Propose a Special Issue Title
Your proposed title should closely align with your research interests, while also fitting within the scope of the journal. The title should strike a balance-being broad enough to attract a reasonable number of submissions, yet focused enough to curate a cohesive collection of articles. Special issues often revolve around the intersection of multiple disciplines, recent field advancements, or emerging societal challenges. If you've noticed a surge of interest in a particular subject, this is a promising indicator that a related proposal will attract significant attention. When proposing your special issue title, there are specific rules to follow:
The title should be a polished phrase in an academic style; |
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Write a Description
The description of the special issue needs to introduce the background of proposing your special issue, the aims and significance of this special issue, and the research subjects that this issue will focus on, which can attract more scholars to participate in your special issue. Specifically, the description should include at least 3 components:
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The aim of this special issue (such as the problems to be solved, etc.); |
The subjects of this special issue (such as a list of key subjects or topics to be covered, together with a description of the types of papers accepted, etc.). |
Submission Deadline
Special issues need to be planned well in advance; it can take between 6-12 months from issuing a call for papers to publication. Taking longer than 12 months might mean that the special issue loses timeliness, although some journals plan several years in advance.
Recruit an Editorial Team
The special issue will be composed of a lead guest editor and a team of guest editors. This team should be sufficient of capacity and expertise, and take on the following responsibilities:
Promote your special issue; |
Submit papers / Invite authors to contribute papers; |
Maintain contact with authors who are interested; |
Organize peer review for submitted papers. |
The qualification of guest editors will be reviewed to ensure they meet the editorial requirements of this journal. The lead guest editor is also encouraged to recruit team members from multiple institutions and locations, which can reduce conflicts of interest and help the special issue reach a wider audience.
SciencePG's editorial staff conducts initial evaluations on all submitted special issue proposals. The purpose is to confirm the proposal's detail, structure, and focus, as well as the diversity and expertise of the proposed guest editor team. If necessary, our team may request modifications to your proposal before it proceeds to the next stage.
Once the preliminary checks are completed, your proposal will be submitted to the editorial board of the journal for approval. The editorial board will carefully assess the quality of your proposal and evaluate the alignment of the suggested topic with the scope of the target journal. It is possible that the editorial board may request revisions to further enhance your proposal. You should take this feedback into account to improve your proposal's approval chances and ensure the potential success of the special issue.
The final approval is jointly decided by SciencePG's editorial staff and the journal's editorial board. Please note that SciencePG reserves the right, at its sole discretion, not to proceed with any special issue proposal at any time and for any reason.
Our editorial staff also ensures that special issues on similar topics do not overlap. If your proposal significantly overlaps with an open issue, the launch of your special issue may be postponed until the existing issue closes for submissions. This is to ensure the successful execution of both special issues.
Typically, this comprehensive assessment by the editorial board and the editorial staff takes two to four weeks from the submission of your proposal. We thank you for your patience and your interest in contributing to the diversity of research on SciencePG.
Once a special issue is approved, it will be made available online and open for submissions through the journal's website. The lead guest editor's name may be used in promotional activities for the issue.
This section offers insights into the diverse roles and responsibilities of both the lead guest editor and guest editors, contributing to the success of their respective special issues.
List Planned Articles or Potential Authors
To ensure the success of a special issue, a minimum of 5 articles must be published. To achieve this, the lead guest editor and guest editors are expected to provide details for at least 10 planned articles or propose 10 potential authors. It's important to note that not all planned articles may be suitable for publication after the peer review process, so having more than 10 planned articles or potential authors is recommended. The details should include the corresponding author's name, email, and, optionally, a tentative title for the planned article.
Download the form to provide details for planned articles or potential authors.
Prepare the Call for Papers Letter
As the lead guest editor, one of your key responsibilities is preparing a tailored Call for Papers letter. This letter will be used to invite scholars to submit their research to your special issue. It should contain a brief description of the special issue and inspire potential contributors to participate in your research endeavor.
To create an impactful Call for Papers letter, we suggest incorporating the Benefits of Publishing in a Special Issue. Highlighting these benefits can help emphasize the value and advantages of contributing to your special issue, thus attracting a broader array of high-quality submissions.
Promote Your Special Issue
Publications in a special issue are generally gathered by an invitation from the lead guest editor and guest editors or a wide call for papers from the editorial office. Nevertheless, submissions from the wider community to any special issue should not be neglected. An effective way to maximize the visibility of a special issue and increase submissions is to promote your special issue from the very beginning.
Examples of effective promotion from the lead guest editor and guest editors' side include, but are not limited to the following:
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Social media, with its instant dissemination and wide coverage, is also a convenient yet highly effective tool for advertisement. You are encouraged to publish a post on Twitter and LinkedIn, together with a special issue banner provided by the editorial office, or to announce the project on ResearchGate. Thus, more peers will be aware of the special issue.
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Announcing your special issue on the homepage of your website is another way to increase its visibility. We will gladly send you images or text in all formats that suit your needs. In addition, you can inform us of related research websites that could list your special issue or relevant mailing lists which are applicable.
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Introducing your special issue onsite at academic events to colleagues is recommended. Special issue flyers and posters can be delivered to you. If you are going to give a presentation at a conference and are willing to broadcast the open call for submission to your audience, a slide about the special issue can be prepared for you.
Assessment and Handling Articles Submitted to Your Special Issue
Once a manuscript is submitted, the lead guest editor of the special issue and the journal's editorial staff will review it based on their availability. This evaluation assesses the manuscript for academic value and the relevance of the subject, ensuring a smooth peer review process.
After confirming the manuscript's suitability, the lead guest editor ensures that it does not raise any conflicts. Subsequently, a quality-based review of the manuscript is conducted by the lead guest editor. In this process, they assign the manuscript to guest editors and external referees for the review. The final decision to accept or reject an article is then determined by the lead guest editor, based on the reviewers' reports.
SciencePG's editorial staff provides extensive administrative support to guest editors, encompassing tasks such as contacting delayed reviewers, sending reminders to authors and reviewers, conveying a guest editor's decisions to authors, monitoring missing materials, and managing various additional administrative responsibilities.
The (lead) guest editors may contribute articles to their own special issue. To avoid potential conflicts of interest, articles authored by the (lead) guest editors cannot be handled by the (lead) guest editorial team. These manuscripts are managed by members of the journal's editorial board.
Any potential conflicts of interest should be considered when handling manuscripts for your special issue. If there's any relationship with the author(s) of the manuscript, such as a recent co-authorship or shared affiliation, it may appear inappropriate for you to manage their work. SciencePG aims to avoid assigning articles to editors with potential conflicts, and we also expect our editors to declare any conflicts. If you think there's a conflict when you receive a manuscript, you should refuse to handle it and notify the editorial assistant so the manuscript can be assigned to another editor.
Avoid citation manipulation. Do not ask authors to include references merely to boost citations to your work, to the journal, or to another journal you are associated with.
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Effective Date: August 14, 2020
This policy explains what information we collect when you use dustur.com Limited's (Here after will be referring the same as dustur.com) sites, services, mobile applications, products, and content ("Services"). It also has information about how we store, use, transfer and delete that information. Our aim is not just to comply with privacy law and also earn your trust.
Information We Collect & How We Use It
In order to give you the best possible usage experience of dustur.com, we collect information from your interactions with our network. Some of this information, you actively tell us (such as your email address, which we use to track your account or communicate with you). Other information, we collect based on actions you take while using dustur.com, such as what pages you access and your interactions with our product features (like Buy, Sell, and Auction services). This information includes records of those interactions, your Internet Protocol address, information about your device (such as device or browser type), and referral information.
We use this information to:
Provide, test, improve, promote and personalize dustur.com Services
Fight spam and other forms of abuse
Generate aggregate, non-identifying information about how people use dustur.com Services
When you create your dustur.com account, and authenticate with a third-party service (like Twitter, Facebook, Google or LinkedIn) we may collect, store, and periodically update information associated with that third-party account. We will never publish through your third-party account without your permission.
Information Disclosure
dustur.com won't transfer information about you to third parties for the purpose of providing or facilitating third-party advertising to you. We won't sell information about you. We may share your account information with third parties in some circumstances, including:
With your consent.
To a service provider or partner who meets our data protection standards.
With academic or non-profit researchers, with aggregation, anonymization, or pseudonymization.
When we have a good faith belief it is required by law, such as pursuant to a summon or other legal process.
If we are going to share your information in response to legal process, we'll give you notice so you can challenge it (for example by seeking court intervention), unless we're prohibited by law or believe doing so may endanger others. We will object to requests for information about users of our services that we believe are improper.
Data Storage
dustur.com uses third-party vendors and hosting partners, such as DigitalOcean / Amazon, for hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology we need to run dustur.com. We maintain two types of logs: server logs and event logs. By using dustur.com Services, you authorize dustur.com to transfer, store, and use your information in the United Kingdom and any other country where we operate.
Tracking & Cookies
We use browser cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you return to our Services. We use them in various ways, for example to log you in, remember your preferences (such as default language), evaluate email effectiveness, allow our paywall and meter to function, and personalize content and other information.
dustur.com doesn't track you across the Internet. We track only your interactions within the dustur.com network (which encompasses dustur.com and custom domains hosted by dustur.com). Some third-party services that we use to provide the dustur.com Service, such as Google Analytics, may place their own cookies in your browser. This Privacy Policy covers use of cookies by dustur.com only and not the use of cookies by third parties.
dustur.com complies with the "Do Not Track" ("DNT") standard recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium. For logged-out users browsing with DNT enabled, dustur.com's analytics will not receive data about you, but we will do some first-party tracking in order to customize content and provide data to third-party service providers that enable dustur.com Services to work. When you use dustur.com while logged-in to your account, we cannot comply with DNT. Here's some more information about dustur.com's Do Not Track policy.
Modifying or Deleting Your Personal Information
If you have a dustur.com account, you can access, modify or export your personal information, or want to delete your dustur.com account, please Send us your request, including your dustur.com username.
To protect information from accidental or malicious destruction, we may maintain residual copies for a brief time period. But, if you delete your account, your information and content will be unrecoverable after that time. dustur.com may preserve and maintain copies of your information when required to do so by law.
Data Security
We use encryption (HTTPS/TLS) to protect data transmitted to and from our site. However, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure, so we can't guarantee security. You use the Service at your own risk, and you're responsible for taking reasonable measures to secure your account.
Business Transfers
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, reorganization or sale of assets such that your information would be transferred or become subject to a different privacy policy, we'll notify you in advance so you can opt out of any such new policy by deleting your account before transfer.
Email from dustur.com
Sometimes we'll send you emails about your account, service changes or new policies. You can't opt out of this type of "transactional" email (unless you delete your account). But, you can opt out of non-administrative emails such as digests, newsletters, and activity notifications through your account's "Settings" page. When your interact with an email sent from dustur.com (such as opening an email or clicking on a particular link in an email), we may receive information about that interaction. We won't email you to ask for your password or other account information. If you receive such an email, please send it to us so we can investigate.
Changes to this Policy
dustur.com may periodically update this Policy. We'll notify you about significant changes to it. The most current version of the policy will always be here and we will archive former versions of the policy here.
We welcome feedback about this policy at Legal@ dustur.com.com. We will certainly consider your feedback to make this policy better.
Data Protection Statement for European Union Users
Description of Processing Activity
dustur.com collects and stores personal information about its users to customize their usage experience and enable personalized distribution of content. It shares minimal data with its service providers.
Purposes of Processing
Provide, test, promote, and improve the services
Gather usage statistics of services
Provide customized usage experience
Publish and distribute user-provided content
Provide access to paid content
Fight spam, fraud, and other abuse of services
Legal Bases
In order to provide the services, dustur.com collects and stores personal data about its users on the legal basis of consent given when you create an account and agree to the Privacy Policy. dustur.com also pursues its legitimate interests by collecting minimal data of logged out users to provide the services, as outlined above.
Where dustur.com collects and stores personal data about non-users, it does so under performance of contract obligations with users who use the services to publish digital product details on the web site hosted by dustur.com. In such cases, users authoring such content containing personal data of third parties are responsible for that content. dustur.com will consider related complaints in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation's rights of the data subject, as well as rights of expression and access to information.
Public Nature of Personal Data
Logged-in users may choose to interact publicly with the dustur.com Services in the form of sharing a digital product links into social media like Facebook, twitter, or following other user accounts, or writing into product description message. Where such personal data may reveal special category protected data, it is processed on the basis that it is manifestly made public by the user. Additional information on potential consequences of such processing can be found below. If you do not agree to this public usage, do not create an account or use these features of dustur.com Services.
Categories of Personal Data Collected
Logged out users
Browsing history of the dustur.com sites
IP address
Browser information
Logged in users:
Display name
Avatar image
Email address (non-public)
Session activity (security)
Linked social media accounts (optional)
IP address
Browser information
Browsing history (on dustur.com network only)
Network interactions (recommends, follows, etc.)
Posts, responses, or series published by user
Billing information and history
Bank account or other payment account information for payments
Business information, if applicable
Categories of Recipients
dustur.com shares minimal personal data with third-party processors in order to provide the Services. These processors offer at least the same level of data protection as that set out in this statement. This includes the following categories of recipients:
Hosting, Storage, & Other Infrastructure
Communication & Support
Payment Processors
Search engines will index user profiles, public interactions, and any user-generated content. Users may also share links to your content on social media.
Payment Processors
dustur.com provides Services in conjunction with several payment processors, including: PayPal and Escrow.com, through which users may pay for dustur.com memberships , product purchases or receive payment based on participation in our seller program. Those companies acting as payment processors may collect and store personal data related to your billing information and history in order to provide their services, and may collect and store personal data and business data to prevent fraud and other abuse
When you delete your dustur.com account, dustur.com deletes your personal data as outlined in this document. However, to delete your payment or billing information, you will need to do so with your payment provider, as dustur.com only has minimal secure access to those records as needed to provide the services.
Existence of Automated Decision-making
dustur.com collects and stores personal data about its users to customize the service offerings. This includes automated decision-making to promote content tailored to the preferences and interests indicated by the user, and to their browsing history and network interactions.
dustur.com also filters content for the purposes of fighting and preventing spam, fraud, and other forms of abuse.
Potential Consequences of Processing
By creating an account on dustur.com, users may make certain personal data about themselves public and accessible to others on their profile and through network interactions. This may in some cases constitute special category protected data which is considered manifestly made public by the user. Due to the public nature of information posted to dustur.com, it may be possible for third parties to derive identifying personal data from products listed for sale, whether by reading, inference, supplemental research, or automated extraction and analysis.
Users are free to use their real name and information, or a pseudonym of their choosing, for their account. Users may also choose to use the service without posting data or engaging in network interactions. However, if you do not agree with and accept the risks of such usage, you may not use the services.
Cross-border Transfers
By using dustur.com Services, you authorize dustur.com to transfer, store, and use your information in the United Kingdom and any other country where we operate. Where your data is disclosed to our processors, it is subject by contract to at least the same level of data protection as that set out in this statement.
dustur.com retains personal data associated with your account for the lifetime of your account. If you would like to delete your personal information, you can delete your account at any time. Deleted account profile pages will yield an error 404 "file not found" page, immediately upon initiating deletion, and will become unrecoverable in our system after a period of fourteen days. It may take several additional days for your personal data to be de-indexed from search engines, depending on those search engines' practices, over which dustur.com may have limited or no control. To delete your payment or billing information, you will need to do so with your payment provider, as dustur.com only has minimal secure access to those records as needed to provide the services.


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