Out of their place. Out of their depth. Out of their minds. Composer and researcher George Lewis has lost track of the times he’s heard those tropes lobbed, implicitly or explicitly, at Black composers of classical music. These artists, he argues, too often slip through the cracks in academic and cultural discourse: They’re shunted to […]
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With Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg finds his avatar
The veteran fantasy filmmaker tells the story of a virtual-reality artist much like himself.
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Reader’s Agenda Mon 5/13: The Yellow Birds, the Harlem Renaissance, and David Misch
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, May 13
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“Rising Up”: Hale Woodruff’s murals on a northern tour
“Rising Up”: Muralist Hale Woodruff’s scenes of black history take a northern tour.