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That's a hard task for any actor, and Boseman had to " got to " play Thurgood Marshall, James Brown, and Jackie Robinson (not to mention embodying the fictional King of Wakanda, T'Challa). "…
Some ideas: "Study the chokepoints, bottlenecks, and pinch points that museums share"such as the entrances, queuing zones, and access area for exhibits. … Look at ways that all food may be…
To be fair, she wasn't lost. The system was. "Representation isn't the same as legitimization. When Girlfriends aired, shows featuring Black casts were categorized as 'Black,' a label …
In other words, the painting fragment consigned to the basement of the Ashmolean at Oxford may be a real Rembrandt. " The Guardian (UK)
On reading, and really feeling, Virginia Woolf as a middle-aged writer. " LitHub
"Eight years ago, Samira Wiley and Uzo Aduba were struggling New York actors working service jobs when they auditioned for a new series from a movie-rental service-turned-streaming site call…
Sir Hans Sloane, whose collection first formed the basis of the museum, gained much of his wealth by enslaving people. The museum moved his bust "from a plinth to a smaller display case acco…
Sure, they're joyful, but … "the viral popularity of this display of intergenerational sympathy " Black 20-somethings professing love for a white boomer's pop-rock chestnut " may also tell…
He told the audience at TED in 2006: "I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new concept of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our conception of the richness …
If your children are in secondary school and are not writing essays, they are being swindled of their chance to do well in college. If you are a college student who is rarely required to sub…
Alongside Gaelic, Scots is one of the indigenous languages of Scotland. The thousands of Wikipedia entries written in it make up one of the largest collections of the Scots language yo…
In sum, lockdown has been positive for knowledge worker productivity in the short term. But it has also created some concerns and challenges around longer-term effectiveness, creativity, and…
Zoom fatigue is the feeling of utter hopelessness after your ninth video call of the day, and experts say it's brought on because the technology overtaxes your brain. Presented with a croppe…
Syria's architectural legacy has been a well-known victim and propaganda tool of the civil war. Islamic State famously took pleasure in detonating the temples and tower-tombs of Palmyra, wit…
The theater in Stratford, Connecticut, modeled on Shakespeare's Globe theater in London, burned down in January 2019 as the result of arson. The theater building had not hosted an indoor per…
There are few answers about this disease. But the choral community has come together to figure out how 54 million people in America who sing in a chorus can do so safely. Choral leaders have…
For 15 years, Knoedler had procured and sold at least 40 fraudulent paintings " an astounding $60m of forged work attributed to such modern American masters as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock a…
Sarah Vaughan sings "Just One of Those Things" and "Eternally" on a 1960 episode of Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos tha…
"To be able to know and still say nothing often seems to me the most creditable of human accomplishments."
James Gould Cozzens, By Love Possessed
Continue reading Almanac: James Gould Coz…
Bach isn't exactly the kind of composer for which Lang Lang became famous. In fact, he's known the Goldbergs for a long time now, and the piece fits him better than you might expect. " David…
It's 2020, so video games, of course. "History games can spark interest in learning more, says Bob Whitaker, a professor of History at Collin College and host of the podcast History Respa…
There's no summer season of music for the L.A. Phil at the Hollywood Bowl. But there are food banks, a take-out restaurant from those who usually make food for the concerts, and a lot of mus…
Truly, one more discussion? As a Gen-Xer might say, big whoop. Here's a list of action points for when theatre resumes " or to work on right now. " American Theatre
Koller, author of An Unknown Woman, inspired many women to consider their lives as full and complex " but she wasn't necessarily pleased with her own experience. "It is a paradox that her li…
Is it time for, say, Beethoven reaction videos? Because this was the experience of someone hearing "Bohemian Rhapsody" for the first time: "Watching the full gamut of human emotions " gentle…
