Studies show that investments in public art can improve street safety, provide tourism and new jobs, and combat social isolation and anxiety. "A city that is vibrant and thriving has art right at the center.”
Aren't museums the rich donate to bringing art to the people? In fact, these days, the rich aren’t taking art to the people. They’re taking art from the people and plopping it into storage vaults that the world’s wealthy use to dodge sales taxes.
The American composer and lyricist, who has died aged 91, shaped the musical artform with his wise, witty and extravagantly clever work
‘He told our stories,’ actor Edward James Olmos says of the Chicago writer of corridos some called the ‘Chicano Woody Guthrie.’
An interview with anthropologist Irma McClaurin dives into the process and meaning behind creating an archival home for Black feminist work.
Music has a way of finding the big, invisible moving pieces inside our hearts and souls and helping us figure out the position of things inside us. Let me give you some examples of how this works.
Since 1984 — perhaps as an unconscious rebuttal to Orwellian fears of dystopian ignorance — Jeopardy! has been the paragon of game shows as well as a thumbed nose at perpetual complaints that television is just a vast wasteland.
The artwork, commissioned by my old boss Billy Steinberg, is a reminder that there’s an alternative to today’s brutal agribusiness.
Meals on screen can convey a lot about history and culture.
Charley Pride was one of the finest vocalists in country-music history, and among the genre’s most successful recording artists. He died last week, victim to COVID. This retrospective was written last year.
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