other people's departments

Having this framed Frank Stella poster for the Attica Defense Fund in one's corridor rather raises the bar: we have posters for LACMA, back in Taper Hall.  (The Attica Rebellion, as you'll recollect, was a protest in 1971 that took place in the Attica Prison in upstate New York, against racial disparity there, inhumane living conditions, and demanding that prisoners be granted political rights: it led to the deaths of 33 inmates and 10 officers/employees of the correctional facility). It's a pretty sobering reminder, as one comes up the stairs towards Princeton's Art and Architecture reminder, that even if the rebellion led to some relatively short-term improvements, things slid back again: a far cry from being served danish pastries and fruit and coffee before I led a seminar with a terrific group of 14 or so students.  And one subsequently sent me some slug art I didn't previously know!  It's really invigorating - I know I said this yesterday - to spend a couple of days outside one's customary intellectual habitat.