“Does it mean that we (we) are slaves to the Jews,” he writes, “and not only / Not for this, but for pleasure?” Jewish organizations characterized, among others, Walker’s public support for Icke and his own poetry as dangerous and harmful. Privately, some in Walker’s life said it was mysterious that he hugged Icke. The …
“I really did everything I could in this body,” he said. “I really threw myself into the machine.” In 2011, he outspokenly criticized Israel, joining a flotilla to challenge the Israeli blockade of Gaza. He broke the US embargo to travel to Cuba and meet with Fidel Castro. He also wrote a book and produced …
Writer-director Krystin Ver Linden’s main character of the same name (Keke Palmer, “Akeelah and the Bee” “Hunters”) successfully escapes a malevolent enslaver (Jonny Lee Miller), only to discover that the year is actually 1973. Yes, it’s 1973 and he and the other “natives” are trapped in a century-old bubble on the Georgia plantation, not much …
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One of the many new frontiers in art history today is abstract art by women. It’s impossible to say for sure, but I suspect we barely know what we don’t know. This thought has often haunted me over the past few years, often in large, jarring museum exhibits. But right now, that jolt resonates in …
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As a student and a young actress, I am surprised that the canon of Black American writers and artists that has shaped my artistic life so richly is mostly unknown and so little understood. The play’s director, Charles Randolph-Wright, the first black director I worked with as the lead actor on Broadway, spearheaded this project …
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THE ART OF ALICE & MARTIN PROVENSEN by Alice and Martin Provensen With essays by Leonard Marcus, Robert Gottlieb and Karen Provensen Mitchell THE BOOK OF PROVENSEN TALES Compiled and illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen. 12 days ago my house burned down. I heard what I thought was a little hand crumpling a piece …
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‘I don’t know how they did this to you’ While in prison, Mr. Broadwater got his GED and studied law, repeatedly trying to get his case to be looked at. At one point, she saved $1,000 in disability payments and custody work, hoping to keep Johnnie Cochran. The attorney’s firm, however, returned the money, reporting …
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Alice Sebold, best-selling author of the memoir “Lucky” and the novel “The Lovely Bones,” apologized Tuesday to a man wrongfully convicted of raping her in 1982 after identifying as her attacker in court. Apology came eight days later The man’s conviction was vacated by Anthony J. Broadwater, a state court judge In Syracuse, NY, in …
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LOS ANGELES — As the Hammer Museum emerges from last year’s pandemic close, it has gathered a host of big names from the University of California, Los Angeles, to its campus down the street, which it hopes will draw crowds back: Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec. And Waters. That would be the restaurant’s founder, Alice Waters. …
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LOS ANGELES — As the Hammer Museum emerges from last year’s pandemic close, it has gathered a host of big names from the University of California, Los Angeles, which it hopes will draw crowds back to its campus down the street: Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec. And Waters. That would be the restaurant’s founder, Alice Waters. …
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ROOMS ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT in Alice Neel; His focus was people. Confirming the clear-eyed compassion she feels for people from all walks of life, Neel’s work reveals the deep interiority of her subjects, with vivid, almost cartoon-like depictions of wide-angle eyes, sunken chins, and speckled skin in green or its shades. spotted with blue-violet …
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In a more contemporary way: Kirstin Valdez Quade’s “The Five Wounds” has a scene that reminds me of why the term “heartbreaker” has been so popular with critics. The novel’s hapless protagonist has pinned his hopes for a new life on a windshield repair kit, which he believes will profitably put him in the ranks …
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