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Intolerance From May 1 to June 3, fifty pen and watercolor drawings by the noted contemporary artist José Luis Cuevas were exhibited in Reno at UNRs Sheppard Gallery and the main branch of Nevada National Bank. The drawings were inspired by the book The Witches Advocate: Basque Witchcraft and the Spanish Inquisition by Gustav Henningsen, a publication in the Basque Book Series of the University of Nevada Press. The exhibit Intolerance, which has received high critical acclaim, is currently on a two year tour of the United States, Canada and Europe. In conjunction with the exhibit in Reno there was an opening during which a film narrated by José Ferrer was shown that details the life and work of José Luis Cuevas. Mr. Cuevas came from Mexico City for the event as did Dr. Gustav Henningsen from Copenhagen. After the film there was a public forum in which Mr. Cuevas and Dr. Henningsen discussed their work. José Tasende of Tasende Gallery of La Jolla, organizer of the exhibit, took part and the discussion was moderated by Peter Stremmel of Stremmel Gallery in Reno. The following night Dr. Henningsen lectured on “Witchcraft and the Spanish Inquisition.” On May 4 Dr. E.W. Monter of Northwestern University, noted authority on the Spanish Inquisition, lectured on “The Regulation of Sexual Morality by the Spanish Inquisition.” On May 7 Dr. Jane Davidson, art historian at UNR, gave a lecture entitled “That Was No Witch, That Was My Wife: Witches and Their Interpreters,” in which she discussed the ways that witches are represented in European art. The intolerance exhibit and lecture series were sponsored by the Basque Studies Program, the Friends of the University Press, the University Press, the Art Department, Nevada National Bank and Stremmel Gallery. Financial support derived in part from a grant from Nevada Humanities Committee. |
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