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Everybody Knows About Alabama
Jan 08, 2018Doug Jones’s victory and a new play drawing on Nina Simone’s songs illustrate the opportunities and challenges we face in 2018.
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In the Age of Trump, Resistance Requires Creativity
Jan 18, 2017As the political class in Washington, D.C., struggles to carve a path of resistance to the incoming Trump administration, artists are leading the way. Institutional players in liberal politics should pay attention.
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Black Culture and History Matter
Feb 04, 2016It took 150 years after America officially abolished slavery to get a national museum on the black experience.
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Watch Party Dispatch: Poets and Pols Gather For Some Pointed Words
Nov 05, 2014In which Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton mingles with constituents and the verse is a bit searing.
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Outsider Art Heads Indoors
Nov 26, 2013Did Banksy's New York City sojourn leave behind a renewed appreciation for off-the-wall art? Maybe. Maybe not.
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Morally Compromised Art, on the Big Screen
Aug 16, 2013How do we judge a movie made from a book written by someone with repellent political views?
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New Treasure in Maine
Jul 10, 2013The Colby College Museum of Art reopens, ready to share its $100 million gift and quietly bold vision.
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The Unstoppable Ascendency of Street Art
May 30, 2013Shepard Fairey, Banksy, and FAILE are just some of the artists bridging the gap between the establishment art world and the grittier creative forces of city streets.
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A Critical Look at the Art of George W. Bush
Feb 08, 2013The former president bares his soul
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Afghanistan Sketches
Dec 12, 2012Illustrator Victor Juhasz spent three weeks in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Here, a sampling of his work.
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Occupy 19th-Century Norway
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CSI: David Byrne
Oct 01, 2012An investigation of music’s power by one of its great polymaths
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If the Tibetan Can't Go to the Homeland...
Jul 02, 2012... in which art creates reality.
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"Hillz" Clinton Was Always Cool
Apr 12, 2012What's behind the former First Lady and current Secretary of State's image rehabilitation?
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The Fashion Week Bill of Rights
Feb 17, 2012Two veteran runway models work to bring safe labor practices to the glamour industry.
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