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 their displays "to highlight what he sees as the mass pillaging of the continent by European colonialists. And it’s not just the mighty museums. Diyabanza and his supporters also plan to include smaller galleries, private...
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 time to fact-check a false headline — and have subjects remember the fact-check a week later — is after the subject has already read the headline." - Nieman Lab
Nemser started calling out sexism in the art and art history worlds half a century ago. "Her serious criticism and scholarship belied a whimsical streak she would occasionally indulge, as she did in a 1973 issue of The Feminist Art Journal when she parodied the Gilbert and Sullivan song 'I’ve Got a Little List,' from The Mikado, substituting 'piggy'...
Nothing against the (many) kick-ass, and asskicking, Black actresses of the science fiction universes, but for something closer to reality? Enter Queen Latifah. - Los Angeles Times
At least in the 18th century. "Wherever they were writing, these women had dared to move out of the conventional female role of service and self-sacrifice to pursue their own needs and drives. Dogged by financial insecurity, ill health, and bad eyesight as a number of them were, it took a special kind of courage to defy the stifling...
One youth poet laureate: "She was given the platform to really pull people in and witness the magic of it, and I think that once you get that, you're going to be hooked." - BBC
Five Florine Stettheimer works showed up in 2020. But there was a bit of an issue: "Only two turned out to have been actually created by Stettheimer. Of the other works, two were removed from the marketplace and the attribution changed on the third." - The New York Times
Hire some choreographers. "Choreo-roboticists (that is, roboticists who work choreographically) believe that incorporating dancerly gestures into machinic behaviors will make robots seem less like industrial contrivances, and instead more alive, more empathetic, and more attentive. Such an interdisciplinary intervention could make robots easier to be around and work with—no small feat." - Wired
Philip Kennicott: "Inflammation isn’t just an actual symptom of the disease. It seems to be part of its etiology, its moral and social origins and effects. Covid makes bad things worse; it inflames things." - Washington Post
Lead singer Nadya Tolokonnikova, who has been imprisoned before for her music and activism: "Art is the most important weapon I have against a repressive regime." - BBC
Nomadland took top honors at the London Film Critics Circle on Sunday night. Zhao won for screenwriting, though; Steve McQueen took home Best Director honors for Small Axe, his anthology series of five films on Amazon Prime. - The Guardian (UK)
Paul Huntley has been doing wigs for so long that he can remember helping construct Elizabeth Taylor's braids for Cleopatra. He's been on Broadway since 1973. But now, after a fractured pelvis, a pandemic shutdown, and the delay of his final show - Diana - it's time to wind down and move back to London, he says. "There is...
"Emily Johnson, an Indigenous self-described dancemaker and choreographer published a letter she sent to the National Endowment for the Arts on Thursday detailing what she calls “abusive” experiences working with Jedediah Wheeler, executive director of Montclair State’s Office of Arts and Cultural Programming." - Politico
With joy. No, truly: "We must now work urgently, with purpose, centered in joy. ... This is not joyful expression solely for the purpose of joy; they are the tools that work in community and can withstand great stress." - American Theatre
