> >http://www.latimes.com:80/news/asection/20010218/t000014554.html The Autry
> >Museum is exploring the multicultural West and the contemporary West, as
> >well as the West of popular culture and the imagination. It has exhibited
> >surreal Polish western-movie posters, looked at the Disney version of the
> >West, and originated "On Gold Mountain," the most extensive museum show
> >mounted on the Chinese American experience. Shows planned for the future
> >reflect creative thinking on such offbeat topics as spaghetti westerns,
> >urban Indians, and Jews and the West. Expect to see the story of the West
> >extend beyond the 1890s into the present day, an emphasis on the
> >interaction among groups rather than stories about conquerors and victims,
> >and, displays relating to Western ecology and the role of the federal
> >government in shaping the West.

some of that sounds pretty cool - does it live up to expectations?


geoff carver
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