arts
Paul Robeson mural on D.C.’s historic U St. vandalized
April 18, 2023The attack comes just days after the Black leader’s 125th birthday.
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The Ohio art world financiers backing J.D. Vance and other Trump Republicans
November 7, 2022Trump-financiers like Mark Kvamme and the Schottensteins are sitting on local museum boards.
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‘The Wayland Rudd Collection’: When state power was harnessed to combat racism
February 4, 2022Imagine a world where a powerful global entity, leader of a worldwide bloc of socialist nations, poured its intellectual, artistic, journalistic, and organizational resources into the fight against racism and national chauvinism. Such was the Soviet...
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On ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth,’ prompted by film director Joel Coen’s latest iteration
January 21, 2022Of all Shakespeare’s tragedies, Macbeth is perhaps the most strikingly modern.
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Caravaggio at 450: A maverick Realist painter in the Baroque era
September 27, 2021Caravaggio is most frequently considered a Baroque artist. How true is this?
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