{"id":2853,"date":"2013-04-04T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2013-04-04T13:31:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:31:20","slug":"art-or-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=2853","title":{"rendered":"Art or life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2854\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2013\/04\/03\/arts\/artsspecial\/20130404HOPI.html?ref=design\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2854\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2854\" alt=\"hopi mask\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hopi-mask.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hopi-mask.jpg 390w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hopi-mask-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hopi mask at auction in Paris<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Can I please be the Hopi shaman who got to wear this helmet? Ah. OK. I didn&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On April 12 the N\u00e9ret-Minet auction house in Paris will auction many sacred Hopi artifacts, over the objections of the tribe. Above, a\u00a0helmet representing the Crow Mother, made from leather recycled from a Mexican saddle and feathers, is among the artifacts up for auction. Others are shown in this NYTimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2013\/04\/03\/arts\/artsspecial\/20130404HOPI-3.html\" target=\"_blank\">slide show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe Hopis, who number about 18,000 in northeast Arizona, believe the objects in the Paris sale, which they call Katsinam, or \u2018friends,\u2019 are imbued with divine spirits.\u00a0The brightly colored visages and headdresses, often adorned with horsehair, sheepskin, feathers and maize, are thought to embody the spirits of warriors, animals, messengers, fire, rain and clouds, among other things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Embodying the spirits of fire, rain, and clouds sounds like my idea of art, actually. Sacred or not, most of these look as if they were created right now. Paul Klee would have loved them. And Picasso.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I please be the Hopi shaman who got to wear this helmet? Ah. OK. I didn&#8217;t think so. On April 12 the N\u00e9ret-Minet auction house in Paris will auction many sacred Hopi artifacts, over the objections of the tribe. Above, a\u00a0helmet representing the Crow Mother, made from leather recycled from a Mexican saddle and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Art or life?  - represent<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=2853\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Art or life?  - represent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Can I please be the Hopi shaman who got to wear this helmet? 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