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Paulo Mendes Da Rocha, A Brazilian Brutalist With A Light Touch, 92
Da Rocha was one of Brazil's most well-known architects, despite being blacklisted by a brutal military regime for 20 years. "'Concrete acrobatics' is how...
The Orwell Prizes Go To Up-To-The-Moment Political Books
Ali Smith won for her Summer, the concluding novel in her seasonal quartet - and one that encompasses Brexit, Australian wildfires, COVID-19, and the...
France’s New Privately Funded Arts Complex
Arles is famous for Van Gogh and for its Roman ruins. Now there's a new show in town: Luma. "The center doesn’t fit neatly...
The Pandemic Silenced These Instruments
And the virus killed two of the three "marimba healers" of Los Angeles, men who restored the old, cracked, broken marimbas of the area's...
The Choreographers And Dancers Of TikTok Go On Strike
At least, the Black choreographers and dancers do - following the lead of dancer Erick Lewis, who posted a massively viral video saying, "This...
The French Impressionists Had No Idea They Were Painting Masterpieces-To-Be
Of course they didn't, even if some of them believed their work deserved that rating. "It’s easy to forget that for most of them...
Even In Pride Month, Hollywood Steers Away From Asian American LGBTQIA Stories
Director Quentin Lee: "Creating queer Asian content is hard because you're really hitting on two major issues of America that are challenging." But he...
Richard Altuna, Who Designed Upwardly Mobile Shopping Experiences, And Starbucks, 70
The world of brick-and-mortar stores would look very different without Altuna, who "designed the prototypes for a certain kind of store, one that infused...
Summer Is A Scam
But there are a few ways to fix it. - The New York Times
The Writers Trying To Save The World Through Fiction
The novelists hope: "As long as we continue to think and to tell stories, we are not necessarily doomed." Perhaps. - The Guardian (UK)
No Mass Outbreaks From The UK’s Test Events
Great, 58,000 people and only 28 positives - but at the time of the test events, "virus levels were low and testing before and...
Halo Wines, Eminence Of Washington-Area Theatre Scene, 81
Wines was an actress and director who was enrolled as a child in acting lessons to help her overcome shyness. She "brought consummate artistry...
William Randolph Hearst Bought A Medieval Spanish Monastery And Shipped It To California
But then the 1175 monastery of Santa María de Óvila wasted away some time in crates on a San Francisco pier. - El Pais...
Violinist Jeanne Lamon, Who Led Tafelmusik For 33 Years, Has Died At 71
In Canada, she brought Baroque music played on period instruments into the modern era. "Under her guidance — and with her often leading from...
The Longstanding, Fascist Focused, Whitewashing Of Rome
Rome was hardly white, whether in architecture or demographics. But historically, Europeans and white Americans - and especially Mussolini and his followers - have...
What University Theatre Programs Need To Do For Their Students And Educators Of Color
There are issues: "Many educators of color find themselves entering or working at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) with little guidance on how to push...
The Author Who Wanted To Write A New King Lear
Anne Enright on The Green Road on having a plan for her plot, her idea to write a new King Lear: "The children had...
Gaming May Actually Benefit Your Brain
For one thing, "action games in particular—games where reflexes, reaction time, and hand-eye coordination are challenged, like in the now-retro classics Doom and Team Fortress Classic—provided tangible...
Alone In Rome, Before The Tourists Return
Italy was the first to lock down, and one of the hardest lockdowns. "Now most of Italy is in a 'white zone,' and museums...
A Keith Haring Mural In Barcelona Is Under Threat
Haring painted the mural inside a nightclub in 1989. The nightclub turned into a billiards hall, and the mural was preserved, but now the...
The Cinque Gallery Gives Us Another Chapter Of Black Art History
Cinque, founded by Romare Bearden, Ernest Crichlow, and Norman Lewis in 1969, showed more than 450 artists of color during its 35-year existence. "The...
Author Naomi Wolf Spreads So Many Anti-Vaccine Myths That She’s Banned From Twitter
One might even call them all lies. "The author variously claimed that vaccines were a 'software platform that can receive uploads' and that 'the...
A Choreographer Learns To Rest, To Improvise, And To Feel Joy
During what we might call "the long 2020," choreographer Kyle Marshall experienced quite a bit of change. "In this next step of his career,...
The Moomintrolls’ Essence Came From Tove Jansson’s Island
Author and illustrator Jansson found her dream island when she was in her '50s. "Klovharun in the Finnish archipelago is tiny – some 6,000...
The Creator Economy Owes A Lot To Gaming Site Twitch
When Twitch entered the picture 10 years ago, most creators - writers, artists, makers, eaters of food on YouTube - weren't yet earning...
