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It’s been one year since the film theorist and filmmaker Peter Wollen died. Chon Noriega, the director of the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA, reflects beautifully on their friendship and Wollen’s generous, open-minded ways of thinking. “As an intellectual,” Noriega writes, “Peter neither argued nor explained.”

In need of a new playlist? Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi, a curator at the Hammer Museum, put together “Chez Baldwin,” a 478-track, 32-hour-long Spotify playlist based on James Baldwin’s vinyl record collection. As one would expect, it’s wonderful.

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