The current Ms. Magazine reports on 4 women from the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, ND who created a travelling art gallery called Rolling Plains in an 18-wheel truck (with funding from the NEA). It visits small towns throughout North Dakota and Minnesota where the truck is "in residence" for a week at a time. "... the gallery is a never-say-die way of coping with the lack of art education programs throughout the Midwest." The May 3 New York Times reports on the recent ICOM conference of the Arab museum world in Amman, Jordan and notes that "the final recommendations of the 'research, ethics and legislation' workshop ... call for museums to be 'a privileged forum of transcultural exchanges' that 'should fight against all kinds of extremism and promote tolerance.'"