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• The Damage The ‘Nation Of Immigrants’ Rhetoric Does To The United States

  15-08-2021 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Multiculturalism was the response to civil rights demands, which required a revised narrative of U.S. history. For this scheme to work—and affirm U.S. historical progress—Indigenous nations and communities had to be left out of the picture or somehow woven into the story.” – Boston Review
  
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• If You See Goddesses On Bus Shelter Walls, This Is Why

  15-08-2021 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Artist Martine Gutierrez plays all the parts of goddesses, queens, and other icons on bus shelters in NY, Boston, and Chicago. “I think confusion is delicious,” the artist says. – The New York Times
  
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• Leon Litwack, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Scholar Of Race In America, 91

  15-08-2021 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Historian Litwack “illuminated dark corners of the American past by exploring the bitter legacy of slavery and segregation and by confronting the lingering presence of white supremacy in the national consciousness.” – Washington Post
  
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• A New Movie Centered Deaf Actors During Its Creation

  15-08-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Though some in the Deaf community are criticizing the new movie CODA for centering the concerns of a hearing character, the movie is (perhaps shockingly) “the first major Hollywood release to feature multiple Deaf leads, [and] its hearing director, Siân Heder, endeavored to make the set as accessible as possible.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• After Oregon Ballet Theatre Fired Its Artistic Director, The Resident Choreographer Also Left

  15-08-2021 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And that’s because the resident choreographer – with three upcoming ballets in the 2021-22 season – was the AD’s partner.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Letter: Phillip King obituary

  15-08-2021 17:23
  
  I first made contact with Phillip King in the mid-1950s in the casting room at St Martin’s School of Art sculpture department: we both had our hands in bowls of plaster and were commenting on the sensual delights of the activity.Subsequently, as students in Anthony Caro’s classes, we saw a lot of each other, eventually as family friends.Continue reading...
  
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• Amazing Grace: artist’s tribute casts new light on Victorian rescue heroine

  15-08-2021 08:45
  
  Grace Darling’s role in saving the survivors of a shipwreck off Northumberland is to be commemorated on the anniversary of the featA ferocious gale blew across the north-east coast of Britain on the night that made Grace Darling a star of popular history. She was to become a beacon of bravery for the Victorians when she set out in a small rowing boat to help the distressed passengers of the sinking SS Forfarshire.Now she is to be celebrated with a large art installation in Northumberland,
  
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