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"The Baltimore Museum of Art doesn't wish to renovate American art history by placing more black artists in leading roles. The BMA wants to take a wrecking ball to American art history, rebu…
"Every year, families from across the country gather for a heritage camp where adopted Indian and Nepalese children come to learn about their roots. Mudra Dance Studio has been part of the a…
"Hank Willis Thomas is making some of the most urgent, timely art in the US. With a knack for adopting popular icons and signs, whether in the form of sporting imagery or memorable photograp…
"At this moment, when the US is deep in the throes of an impeachment investigation, it is startling and bracing to be immersed in the debate over the country's founding principles, however s…
"The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS) is a city department working within a large bureaucracy, but we can use that to our advantage, and we have. We are small and nimble, and we a…
Antonio C. Cuyler: "In this article, I explore three research questions: What role should foundations play in achieving creative justice? What behaviors do foundations practice that might un…
Morgan Williams: "The purpose of my research was to shed light on some of the complexities, nuances, and challenges of putting DEI theory into practice within foundation funding for arts and…
"[Ann Hobson] Pilot played with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for four decades before retiring from the orchestra in 2009. She is one of four African-American musicians who broke the color b…
"On Thursday, October 24, 2019, the Afro Yaqui Music Collective took the stage on Pittsburgh's North Side for an evening of jazz-fusion fueled activism in the name of unjustly forgotten or s…
"'The [Every Voice] project, in a way, seeks to kind of un-straightwash and un-whitewash music history, especially in the classical sphere,' said [countertenor Reginald] Mobley, a native of …
Here's why you should do that: "Your interest in a title will indicate to booksellers that it's worth checking out! Maybe they'll read it. Maybe they'll love it and give it table space up fr…
Happy 21st, McSweeney's Internet Tendency. How the heck do you stay so funny over some exceedingly unfunny years? One editor interviews another to find out. " Inside Higher Ed
Well, if the flutist is Eugenia Zukerman, she writes a memoir chronicling what happens to her brain. Now three years into her Alzheimer's diagnosis, she says, "music for me is a second langu…
In a lot of Asian countries, "hip-hop rose to popularity as a form of self-expression and resistance, sometimes in the face of colonialism and oppressive regimes." But current Asian American…
In the French newspaper Le Parisien, the photographer and former actress and model says that in 1975, the director raped her at his ski chalet in Switzerland. "She said she remembered fearin…
The staffers walked a picket line in front of the former Scottish Rite Temple on Friday. "We're here to work! We want to work!" they chanted, and "Let us in! Let us in! Let us in!" " Los Ang…
Perego was an Italian puppeteer who came up with the 10-inch tall mouse puppet/marionette in the 1950s " and then the Ed Sullivan Show came calling, and calling, and calling. Of the puppet's…
So, Manet's "off-the-cuff spontaneity" took a little more work than he, and art historians following his words, ever claimed. "Most of these things seem to have been traced from more searchi…
Because the language isn't "foreign" enough " it's English. The Academy is changing what the category is called " Best International Film instead of Best Foreign-Language Film " but it hasn'…
Jagger used the natural world as inspiration, and her work related to Land Art, ecofeminism, and Post-Minimalism without aligning to any one specific movement. The artist "hit upon one of he…
Simone Lia is a comic-strip artist, but one day she noticed that she couldn't stop drawing worms. Her "worms look like demob-happy frankfurters. They have floaty bodies, dazed smiles. … Wi…
Must be nice to be able to say that people wanting bestsellers can just "ge them elsewhere." Another Story Bookshop in Toronto was founded with a mission of social justice, with the purpose …
Garden and art history books tell a specific story that leaves some important bits out. "In a few short decades, what became known as the 'English style' had spread across Britain and on to …
Isabella Madrigal, a tribally enrolled member of the Cahuilla Band of Indians in California, and a 17-year-old, figured out, as she had a hard time finding good roles, that she could shape h…
Remember how Carrie Fisher (RIP, General) used to punch up scripts? It's Phoebe Waller-Bridge's time now. She's the second woman " only the second " to get a writing credit on a Bond movie o…
