Art and Culture

“Among their demands were a section of the museum dedicated to Black (and, in a later, amended statement, Puerto Rican) artists, an artist committee granted curatorial power, a ‘rental fee’ paid to artists for the exhibition of their…
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“Mora, who is 91 and tiny, wearing head scarves around her weathered face, has clung to a mix of ancestral Indigenous and Spanish traditions.” – The New York Times Source link
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I was standing in line at Chaucer’s Books, my local indie, when it occurred to me that the line was longer than usual. This has been happening regularly enough that I’ve stopped being surprised—Chaucer’s business is downright…
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My earliest reading memoryI was reading – or pretending to read – before my brain could encode memories, so probably around three or four? I “read” Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd, but that was mostly pictures.My…
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After blowing the deadline and begging for more time – and being denied – workers took Donald J. Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center on Friday night. But “a spokeswoman for the center, said the institution was … evaluating…
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Good Morning, Where does art actually get its value? Not always where you’d expect. The Chicago Symphony is now part of the soundtrack at a downtown blood-donation center (The New York Times). The Atlantic looks at…
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The plan – after extensive renovations of the now unprepossessing building – is for ExoArts to “offer six six-week blocks a year at subsidized sliding-scale rates that can be rented by outside theater companies to perform…
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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.We have limited time on this Earth to get a good look at one another’s belongings. We need to move on this—fast—because the years we spend alive…
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Today’s “Arts Fuse” publishes my latest thoughts about the Kennedy Center: With the fate of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts – for the moment, no longer the Trump Kennedy Center – unknowable, it’s tantalizing to inquire…
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Jeff Gerstmann couldn't help but laugh incredulously last week at the announcement that the late, legendary rapper Tupac Shakur would make a digital appearance in an upcoming video game."It's a fairly absurd thing to happen," the…
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