From Cate McQuaid in the Boston Globe:
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Feeling the heat and light - Exhibit details the rich history of merengue
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"¡Merengue!" paints a vivid social history of a music that has fueled passion; it also charts a bit of art history, from the storytelling strains of the 1930s through modernism and the more subversive elements of contemporary art.
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For info on the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists which is showing the exhibit, as well as an example of the art, see the
museum's web site.