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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Veronica Esposito
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Veronica Esposito
There’s no shortage of comparisons with the second Trump administration to the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany, but perhaps the more apt comparison is to the Red Scare in postwar America. Blacklisted, a new show at New York Historical, profiles the lives of the so-called Hollywood Ten, who were creatives caught up in the Communist witch-hunt – to disastrous consequences affecting their lives for decades thereafter.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Veronica Esposito
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Veronica Esposito
As curator Pietro Rigolo was combing through the Getty’s archives in search of material for his new show, he came upon a strange sight – a $3 bill. “I was in this section of the archive dealing with the Black Panther movement, the WPA, the gay rights movement and protest material related to HIV/Aids,” Rigolo told me during a video interview. “In there, I found this little piece of ephemera that was this fictive $3 bill.
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2 weeks ago | 
kqed.org | Veronica Esposito
Jun 13Failed to save articlePlease try againSupporters of transgender rights including Rev. Ray Broshears organize a protest, after residents were kicked out of the Hyland Hotel in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood.
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2 weeks ago | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Veronica Esposito
Veronica Esposito looks at the strangely fascinating imagery authors have used to describe self-translation and the battle between two languages, from Jhumpa Lahiri’s macabre metaphors to Ariel Dorfman’s self-described “bed where the two vocabularies coupled.” Writing in her book Translating Myself and Others (2022), celebrated author Jhumpa Lahiri offers two curious images to describe the feeling of authoring a work in Italian, ever aware of the overwhelming likelihood that she will one day...
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Veronica Esposito
Constellation, the enormous new show of photographer Diane Arbus’s life work, aims to present the artist as no one has seen her before. Embracing randomness, this exhibition of a full set of 454 master prints from Arbus’s only authorized printmaker, Neil Selkirk, tries its best to give audiences a completely unstructured presentation of the photos. “I wanted to make sure that it was as mixed up as possible,” the show’s curator, Matthieu Humery, told me.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Veronica Esposito
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Veronica Esposito
While many sectors of society are pulling back on LGBTQ+ celebration, support and representation – including retailers like Target; tech giants like Meta and Google, and non-profits such as the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (Rainn) – art venues large and small are showing up for Pride month this June. Here’s a roundup of many of the things happening all over the country to celebrate and encourage the LGBTQ+ community this year.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Veronica Esposito
While the Black artist Tomashi Jackson was pursuing her MFA from the Yale School of Art in the 2010s, she had a revelation about how our perception of color works. While studying color theory, she had gone back to the basics, rereading foundational texts from her art education – Jackson realized that the way these books talked about color resembled how Americans talk about race.
