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Article: Bicentennial blues.(first word)
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- African Arts
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- September 22, 2004
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I caught up with Marilyn Houlberg last November in Port-au-Prince. We had co-curated "The Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou" exhibition for the Fowler Museum in 1995 and subsequently stayed au courant of Vodou's ever-evolving scene. Now I was curating a couple of exhibitions at the Fowler in honor of the bicentennial of Haitian independence on January 1, 2004. I needed to appraise bicentennial plans and get some pulse on the disastrous turn of events in the Black Republic. I also needed to go shopping for drapo (Vodou flags), and no one keeps a keener eye on that market than Marilyn.
Marilyn and I also shared some serious religious obligations. We were in Haiti during ...
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