arts and culture
Portrait of ‘Fighter’ Emmy Lou Packard at Richmond Art Center
August 3, 2022Emmy Lou Packard: Artist of Conscience is a stunning if overdue, retrospective exhibition of an artist largely ignored in her lifetime by critics.
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‘Trouble the Water’ world premiere recounts life of Black hero Robert Smalls
July 29, 2022Robert Smalls (1839-1915). Ever heard of him? Me neither. If you have, you’re better educated than I am, that’s for sure.
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Recent CDs: A Vietnam opera and Afro-American composer William Grant Still
July 27, 2022A music lover can be grateful for being able to hear this important American opera on CD, “a gripping affair, beginning to end."
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‘The Battle at Lake Changjin’: China’s onscreen contesting of American aggression
July 25, 2022China continues to warn the U.S. about upping its level of aggression in a land that both the U.S. and China have affirmed for almost half a century is a part of China.
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TV commercials’ creators plan to join Theatrical and Stage Employees
July 25, 2022Just one more group of workers join a literal march by workers everywhere into the labor movement.
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