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luckygrrrThe Marketing of an Ancient Culture
Is it fair game for a person to trade on his/her cultural traditions by selling them as art to outsiders? Does the label “art” ever depend on a person’s ethnicity? Native American artists wrestle with these questions all the time. And they are worth examining as the Autry’s American Indian Arts Marketplace 2010, the largest … Read more
Stephen Fried on Fred Harvey
Author Stephen Fried stopped by the Autry on Tuesday to talk about Appetite for America, his new book about Fred Harvey, the hospitality entrepreneur who once ruled the railways of the West and whose pioneering ideas built tourism to the Grand Canyon and the Southwest. Fried spoke to about 100 people who attended the event … Read more
