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Cole Porter Created A Pro-Immigration Protest Ballet In The 1920s
Of course he did. "Like modern immigration laws, the Emergency Quota Act inspired a wave of pro-immigration activism, and Porter, who was born...
Legendary Casting Director Lynn Stalmaster Has Died At 93
You know his work even if you don't know of the man. "Stalmaster’s accomplishments are too numerous to list exhaustively, but among them: He...
The Modernist Poet Who Understood The Precarity Of Civilization
Aime Césaire, whose Discourse on Colonialism remains (all too) relevant - and who protested to some effect in 2005after French President Jacques Chirac instructed...
What The ‘To All The Boys’ Trilogy Has Meant For Its Star
Lana Condor on the To All the Boys I've Loved Before trilogy author Jenny Han: "When we first were talking years ago, she said,...
Will Covid-19 Kill The Pandemic Movie?
Maybe, but then again, the form has a way of shifting with new information to meet the times. However, it will have to be...
Brenda Ballin, Longtime And Well Loved Guide At The Met, 91
Ballin started volunteering as a docent in the 1970s. "Whatever lucky group she had in tow was pretty much guaranteed a good show. Along...
The Secret Life Of Museums During Lockdowns In The UK
Each lockdown has meant something different for the staff, especially of science and natural history museums. For instance, James Maclaine, senior fish curator at...
The Indianapolis Museum Of Art’s Job Ad Asked Director To Maintain A ‘Traditional, Core,...
The explanation of the current CEO and director of the Indianapolis Museum didn't, perhaps, help. Charles L. Venable said that "the decision to use...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Amy Tan
Maybe Asian American writers should stop dissing Tan. "I understand the resistance to being lumped in with her; I feel it, too. But when...
Can Theatre Help Heal The United States’ Political Divides?
Well, that sounds hokey. But it's powerful, a program from Georgetown that, a co-founder says, shows "there is a particular power that performance has,...
How A Few Women, In Just A Couple Of Years, Changed The Course Of...
Women Artists for Revolution (W.A.R., of course) weren't shy about their rallying cry in 1969. "The group ignited a robust movement against gender discrimination...
What’s The Best Place To Work (And Work Only) From Home?
Turns out it might not be sitting on the couch behind your daughter in the TV room. (Who could have known, pre-pandemic?) - Fast...
Get Watching: The First Oscars Shortlists Are Out
Of course, we've all probably been watching quite a few things during the past year, but have those things included Academy-honored movies? Time to...
A Right-Wing Mayor Opens Museums In France Despite National Restrictions
Not that left-wing art-lovers can't sympathize (and a socialist mayor in another town is planning to defy the national orders as well), but ......
Malls And Nail Salons Are Open, But Not Museums?
Dear Gavin Newsom, this makes no sense at all. Signed, a lot of LACMA and other art-lovers in California. Weirdly: "LACMA can open its...
The Women Who Created The Blues
For popular music fans, "rock created the music publications we read today. R&B created rock. Blues created R&B. And Mamie Smith made the blues...
Elton John Says Brexit Negotiators Screwed Up, And Screwed Over Musicians
Elton John says his tours can absorb the costs and the paperwork, so theoretically Brexit's horribly negotiated touring musician deals (note: what deals?) don't...
A Group Of D&D Teenagers, With The Help Of The Kennedy Center, Give An...
In Springfield, Oregon, if you see people wandering around with choose your own adventure-style art books in their hands, don't be surprised: "Three writers,...
Often, The Art Was Taken By Force, So This Activist Says He Can Take...
Mwazulu Diyabanza is a Congolese activist who would prefer France's museums were open so he could get some attention for taking African objects from...
The Best Time To Correct False, Er, Fake News Is Not In Advance
Warning people off doesn't work: "We hear a lot about inoculating people against fake news or 'prebunking' it, but new research shows that the best...
Cindy Nemser, Who Founded The Feminist Art Journal, 83
Nemser started calling out sexism in the art and art history worlds half a century ago. "Her serious criticism and scholarship belied a whimsical...
The Action Star Revival Had Largely Left Black Actresses Behind
Nothing against the (many) kick-ass, and asskicking, Black actresses of the science fiction universes, but for something closer to reality? Enter Queen Latifah. -...
How The Novel Became Women’s Work
At least in the 18th century. "Wherever they were writing, these women had dared to move out of the conventional female role of service...
Young Poets Think Amanda Gorman Is Giving Them Cultural Cachet – And Access
One youth poet laureate: "She was given the platform to really pull people in and witness the magic of it, and I think that...
Pro Tip: Not All Of Those Suddenly On The Market ‘Seldom Seen’ Artist’s Works...
Five Florine Stettheimer works showed up in 2020. But there was a bit of an issue: "Only two turned out to have been actually...