Good morning. ⛅️ Today, how Ancient Romans exoticized foreigners, an anti-racist group stole a Confederate monument from a Selma cemetery, and reviews of Laura Aguilar and Ben Sakoguchi.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Eugène Delacroix, and others employed the technique to share works with close acquaintances.
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A stone chair dedicated to Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy, has been taken from the Old Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, Alabama (image by and courtesy White Lies Matter)
An anti-racist group stole a Confederate monument from a Selma cemetery, pledging to turn it “into a toilet” unless the United Daughters of the Confederacy meets its demands.
The BIPOC documentarian collective Beyond Inclusion drafted an open letter to PBS condemning the public broadcaster’s lack of diversity and overreliance on Ken Burns.
A long-neglected park in the Bronx, New York, has become the center of a dispute between a group of local artists and the city’s park authorities.
From grants for filmmakers to fellowships, residencies, and more, a list of opportunities that artists, writers, and art workers can apply for this month.
This verdant pin is inspired by Claude Monet’s paintings of his gardens at Giverny. Now, over a century after he created the originals, you can have a tiny enamel version of your very own.
