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This Women’s Social Club Changed Literature And Art, But Its Members Kept It Quiet
"Guest speakers, frequently invited, included Margaret Sanger, the poet Amy Lowell, Emma Goldman speaking on 'Anarchy,' and Edith Ellis, a lesbian writer in an...
A 101-Year-Old Dutch Woman Is Reunited With A Painting Looted By The Nazis
Her father, a doctor who resisted Nazi orders, "had stored the painting in the Amsterdam Bank in Arnhem, thinking it would be safe there....
Looks Like Dance Classes Improve Your Memory
That's a summary, but: "Latinos age 55 and over who participated in a culturally relevant Latin dance program for eight months significantly improved their...
Why So Many Art Critics Find Women’s Bodies Monstrous
In the 1970s, "there was a backlash against reclaiming of the naked body, from feminist polemicists campaigning against pornography, to feminist artists and...
Will Jennifer Hudson Get Her EGOT At The Tonys Tonight?
It all depends on the voters, of course, but there's a good chance: "Hudson was a producer for A Strange Loop, which is nominated for...
Portland Art Museum Repatriates Nine Tlingit Objects To Their Clan In Alaska
Luella Knapp, a member of the clan, said, "As a caretaker of these clan items, it is an honor. Receiving them back, one by...
Paula Rego, Artist Who Had A Breakout Moment Alongside Hockney, Has Died At 87
A teenaged Rego fled Portugal for London at her parents' urging when dictator Salazar came to power. Her series of paintings about women suffering...
The World Of Comic Books Is Kinda Old And White
But Milestone Media is trying to change that. - Los Angeles Times
Norway Finally Gets Its National Museum, Which Is Opening With An Exhibit Of Reindeer...
"The tapestry of 400 reindeer skulls, the flesh and tissue boiled and scrubbed off and the bone polished to a shine, hangs like a...
John Merriman, Who Brought Historical France To ‘Freestyle Rap’ Life, Has Died At 75
Merriman "plumbed dozens of French governmental archives for the information that invigorated his fast-paced books about anarchists, terrorists, leftists and ordinary people in France."...
In Disney’s Latest Shake-Up, Heir Apparent Peter Rice Is Summarily Fired
Fascinating, if you like to follow the kingpins at The Mouse: "Rice, a widely admired TV veteran, was dismissed over issues of 'cultural fit,'...
Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage Seems To Be Under Coordinated Attack
Ukraine's Ministry of Culture and Information Policy says that as of June 9, "389 cultural heritage sites have been destroyed or damaged since the invasion...
Science Itself, Not Social Media Alone, Fuels A Culture Of Disinformation
Preprints are an issue. "It’s all too easy to make outsize claims that sidestep the process of peer review. No publication should carry a...
Paintings Of An Industry On Its Knees After COVID Lockdowns And Cancellations
What timing: Artist "Peter Keegan was commissioned to mark the 10th anniversary of the Waterside Theatre, in Aylesbury, in 2020. Within weeks, all theatres...
When An Idaho School Board Banned Books And Cut Library Funding, A Bookstore Came...
It's no substitute for school boards heartily not banning books or libraries being funded, but Boise's Rediscovered Books gave away copies of the banned...
How A New Disney Show May Change Muslim Representation On TV, Forever
In the comics, Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel)'s "infectious charm and steadfast strength slayed her nemeses in vivid color through the pages, her character unapologetically...
Artists Could Really Use Student Loan Forgiveness Too
Great that some people - including some artists who have been able to eke out a living at qualifying nonprofits or colleges - can...
Have We Run Out Of Useful Lessons From History?
It sure feels like that sometimes. But "if nothing ever changes, then we are all locked inside the iron cage of the present tense....
Barry Koskie’s Dream Place At The Komische Oper Berlin
"Success for me isn’t that we can sell out 92 percent of the house, it’s that we can sell out a run of Schoenberg’s...
How Did Two Caravaggio Masterworks Get Lost At Sea?
It's a history of Caravaggio's wild escapades and violent temper, a tale of armed knights bursting in to a cardinal's palace, and then a...
Spotify Claims It’s Making Millions From Podcasts
Of course, it's also paying out millions (and there are the people who left the service over its podcasting contracts with right-wing figures). But...
The Radical Indonesian Art Group Taking Over Documenta
The pitch from ruangrupa: "The lumbung, the common rice store traditionally found in Indonesian villages, built and shared by everyone. They wanted Documenta to...
How An American Saxophonist Tricked The KGB
Merryl Goldberg hand-encoded names, addresses, and other details of the Phantom Orchestra, a group of Jewish refuseniks and Christian activists trying to help Jews...
Creating A Space For Ballet Where Black Dancers’ Identity Is Welcome, Not A Problem...
Theresa Ruth Howard, guest curating at the Kennedy Center, "envisioned gathering an international lineup of dancers for something that’s rare in the traditional ballet...
Public Broadcasters Found New Space During The Pandemic
As offices relocated to, well, every employee's home, a lot of new and relatively inexpensive space opened up across the country. Public media took...
