Stories

Charlottesville removes Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues four years after white supremacists marched, and murdered, to keep them up. - Slate

Drop your phone? At long last, we'll all be legally allowed to repair it. - The Verge

The Clash's smashed guitar isn't trash - it's treasure. - The Guardian (UK)

But a critic sees a lot fewer movies that way. - Los Angeles Times

The FBI said, "Mr. Pereda conned art buyers, hoping his victims wouldn’t see the difference between real art and a forgery." - The New York Times

In the 1950s and 60s artists increasingly looked at the products of pop culture as ideas and materials they could use for their own work. Louis Menand explains. - New York Review of Books

The shop has been fined for selling a children’s story depicting a day in the life of a child with same-sex parents, with officials condemning the picture book for featuring such families. - The Guardian

Those plans include an “online cheer map” and a “fan video wall” that will be made available to TV rightsholders, and which will also be accessible via the Olympics website. - The Hollywood Reporter

“Overall, our interviews suggest that there is a significant gap in youth understanding of the value of public media as something distinct from commercial media.” - Current

Independent filmmakers “need the real curators, the festivals, academies, critics. We need producers who will fight for a voice that is unique, rare, ambitious and challenging.” - The Hollywood Reporter

“If you look at what people watch on streaming platforms, it’s all sitcoms. What’re the most valuable properties out there? - The Guardian

Alexis Soloski considers four of them currently running (if that's quite the word) in New York City, suggesting that they can be a good post-lockdown reintroduction to the experience of being an audience member. - The New York Times

Since the program was created with the passage of the Save Our Stages Act in December, the grant been plagued by glitches and delays. - San Francisco Chronicle

In a column co-written with artist Yinka Shonibare, Ed Vaizey, culture minister under David Cameron and now in the House of Lords, argues for a 1%-3% per device tax on electronics manufacturers that would go into a "Smart Fund" to support arts throughout the UK. – London Evening Standard

Scholarly consensus regarding cultural appropriation has long accepted that the lines between cultural appreciation and appropriation may be difficult to clearly determine in real time, and especially within the contemporary social media-driven zeitgeist. - The Conversation