Artist Martine Gutierrez plays all the parts of goddesses, queens, and other icons on bus shelters in NY, Boston, and Chicago. "I think confusion is delicious," the artist says. - The New York Times
Historian Litwack "illuminated dark corners of the American past by exploring the bitter legacy of slavery and segregation and by confronting the lingering presence of white supremacy in the national consciousness." - Washington Post
Though some in the Deaf community are criticizing the new movie CODA for centering the concerns of a hearing character, the movie is (perhaps shockingly) "the first major Hollywood release to feature multiple Deaf leads, its hearing director, Siân Heder, endeavored to make the set as accessible as possible." - Los Angeles Times
The owner "said he was in a state of shock after the famed artist confirmed the model stable was one of 10 artworks left in Norfolk and Suffolk during his so-called Great British Spraycation." Now, how to keep it safe? - BBC
As four Mi'kmaw artists painstakingly sew and bead an outfit that replicates 180-year-old regalia, they wish they knew more about the woman who made the original." - CBC
Jewish artists brought the annual festival to life, before the Nazis swept them away. But even before the Nazis came to power in Austria, "There was much hostility against the ‘theater Jews’ from Vienna." - The New York Times
A (very) recent negative test will also do. But it's not just audiences: "Additionally, all artists, staff, ushers and volunteers will be required to be vaccinated." - Washington Post
Mirikitani was interned with her family during WWII, and later called poetry the language of liberation. She was the founding president of a social service organization and, according to San Francisco Mayor London Breed, "one of our city's true lights." - The New York Times
And Black joy in particular. The museum's founder, poet and photographer Andrea Walls, "sees the Museum of Black Joy as a inheritor of the Black Arts Movement." - NPR
It's a luxury writers with other full-time jobs long for - but the lucky often discover the luxury of being a full-time writer is a poisoned chalice. - LitHub
The leader of the Blue Moon Orchestra and a generous promoter of others' work as well as her own, Griffith's "best-loved songs were closely observed tales of small-town life, sometimes with painful details in the lyrics, but typically sung with a deceptive prettiness." - The New York Times
European museums have been reevaluating for a while (and not just since Black Panther), but now "the question for U.S. institutions, which aren’t directly tainted by colonialism in Africa, is to what extent they should investigate their own collections." - Christian Science Monitor
"Concert promoters, like other arts executives, are hoping that velvet ropes of vaccination requirements around cultural events can serve as an incentive for fans to get the shot." - The New York Times
