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These diaries discuss Art, Culture, and Race with the mindful eye of a memoirist. Come on in. The water's fine.
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You Can Always Change What You're Channeling—Ingrid Andress and the GOP
Many called it the worst performance ever, but her 'Star Spangled Banner' was both timely and appropriate. It also channeled Jimi Hendrix.
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Getting Shot Is Not the Same as Getting Elected
Teddy Roosevelt was shot during the 1912 election — and lost. That incident & the 1968 Chicago convention haunt this year's race. But science says…
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Can Marty McFly Save America from the Supreme Court?
When Michael J. Fox played guitar with Coldplay at Glastonbury recently, he became a metaphor for the only thing that can save a nation on the ropes.
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The Four-Ton Oversight
When Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed the state's new law requiring all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, he let his faith get…
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Does Will Smith Have a 'Roid Rage' Problem?
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Jazz and the Wife Beater
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Eddie and the Nightbirde
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Lauren Boebert Is Hot
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Stuart Davis—Art Drop #15
Imagine if you could paint the life of America like the jazz music that comes from it. Today's artist did more than imagine that possibility. He created…
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What the Huck?
Why should we care about the story of a Black man and a white boy on the Mississippi River told from the Black man's point of view?
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Yoko Ono: 'Cut Piece' (Art Drop #14)
60 years after its premiere, what are we to make of this "strange public violation that everyone was cool with?"
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Surprised by Joy: Calder, Beethoven, and August Wilson
How a chance encounter with the familiar led to a powerful epiphany.
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Diane Arbus (Art Drop #13)
Today's quick hit features a woman who photographed 'the unusual, the eccentric, and the extraordinary' during her scant 48 years on the planet.
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My God's Bigger Than Your God
Now that the war in Gaza has brought chaos to college campuses across the United States and in Europe too, whose God will bring the solution that works…
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Amedeo Modigliani (Art Drop #12)
Long necks, long faces, vacant eyes. 'When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes,' he said. But there was a lot more to this artist than a romantic…
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Sitting in Judgment: The Trump Trial & Me
Trump’s hush-money trial in New York raises serious concerns about the social contract, as it brings back an incident with the cops and a frivolous…
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'Guernica' Update (Revision)
For context and balance, I've made a small but important change to today's Art Drop.
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