Don’t plan to visit MoMA this summer. It’s closing for renovations that will put a new focus on work by women and artists of color. The results will shake up every gallery.
Posted in: Art , Black, Leon D , Blacks , Culture (Arts) , Diller Scofidio & Renfro , Golden, Thelma , Latin America , Lowry, Glenn D , McShine, Kynaston , Minorities , Museum of Modern Art , Museums , Restoration and Renovation , Studio Museum in Harlem , United States
Eric Rutkow’s “The Longest Line on the Map” recounts the repeated efforts to build a Pan-American highway.
Posted in: Books and Literature , Central America , Latin America , Mexico , Roads and Traffic , Rutkow, Eric (Author) , The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas (Book) , United States
The company will commission 22 plays, with more than half set to go to female playwrights and playwrights of color, its artistic director said.
The author of “Big Little Lies” has a new novel set in a wellness retreat with a group of strangers seeking escape and transformation.
Posted in: Australia , Books and Literature , Emmy Awards , Kidman, Nicole , Moriarty, Liane , Suburbs , Sydney (Australia) , United States , Writing and Writers
Dutton, a Penguin Random House imprint, has just released its first batch of mini books, with a box set of novels by the best-selling author John Green.
Posted in: Book Trade and Publishing , Books and Literature , Dutton Books , dwarsliggers , Green, John (1977- ) , Netherlands , Penguin Random House , Strauss-Gabel, Julie (1972- ) , United States , Writing and Writers
Jill Lepore’s “These Truths” shows both the successes and failures that have made the country what it is today.
The Trump administration’s proposed 25 percent import duty on artworks that originated in China has alarmed museums, collectors and dealers.
For years, men have made up the vast majority of public monuments in this country. A series of campaigns are now pressing for women to get their (monumental) due.
Posted in: Anthony, Susan B , GenderAds , Historic Buildings and Sites , Monuments and Memorials (Structures) , Museum of the City of New York , New York City , Smithsonian Institution , Stanton, Elizabeth Cady , United States , Women and Girls
“Bureaucracy, war and time” stymied the Frank family’s attempts to immigrate in the years leading up to World War II, a report says.
Posted in: Europe , Frank, Anne , Frank, Anne, House , Frank, Otto , Germany , Holocaust and the Nazi Era , Immigration and Emigration , Refugees and Displaced Persons , Research , Roosevelt, Franklin Delano , Rotterdam (Netherlands) , United States , Visas , War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity , World War II (1939-45)
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