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Use this room when you already know the kind of cultural terrain you want to inspect. For guided orientation, open the Field Map or begin with a pathway.

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Now showing — Sign o' the Times · 5 works

  • Sign o' the Times Music · 1980s

    Prince at his most eclectic and brilliant across two discs. Funk, pop, rock, and gospel.

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
  • The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is a 1914 semi-autobiographical novel by Irish house painter and sign writer Robert Noonan, who wrote the book in his spare time under the pen name Robert Tressell. Published after Tressell's death from tuberculosis in the Liverpool Royal Infirmary in 1911, the novel follows a ho...

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • The Sign of Four Books · 1890s

    The Sign of Four is a 1890 book by Arthur Conan Doyle, linked to United Kingdom and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • 1987 concert film by Prince

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • Held here because it strengthens the visible field.

    After-hoursLonging
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