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Arts Mar 22

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For “Minari,” writer and director Lee Isaac Chung drew on his memories of religion growing up in the south.

Arts Mar 12

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Imagine discovering that a painting on your wall is a long, lost masterpiece. In two recent cases, the story centers on Jacob Lawrence, a pioneering American modernist painter. Lydia Gordon, of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, is our…

Arts Feb 16

Universities look to the past to understand their relationships with race

In the aftermath of the killings by police of George Floyd and other black men and women, American institutions of all kinds have looked to their past and present to understand their relationships to race and racism. That reckoning continues…

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Deported without their children, separated mothers hope to be reunited years later

President Biden is expected to sign a series of executive orders this week on immigration, including one setting up a task force to reunite families separated at the Mexican border under former President Trump’s "zero tolerance policy." Amna Nawaz reports…

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Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas on music and mentoring amid a pandemic

A symphony requires all musicians playing their parts in harmony, but the pandemic makes that delicate choreography all the more challenging. Jeffrey Brown talks to maestro Michael Tilson Thomas about that and passing the baton to a younger generation as…

Arts Aug 21

A cultural exploration of face masks during disease outbreaks

Face masks have become part of our daily lives in a way few would have anticipated only months ago. Yet the coronavirus pandemic is not the first American crisis in which face coverings have played a central role. The Smithsonian…

Arts Aug 13

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How will theater weather the pandemic? Especially in its more fearless forms, it will always adapt to reach audiences, said the playwright behind "Slave Play."…

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Songwriting duo Louis York picks five songwriters who deserve more credit.

Arts Jul 23

Songwriting will be key to getting us through the pandemic, Louis York says

For hitmakers Chuck Harmony and Claude Kelly, songwriting can be a “lifesaving tool” during times of distress.

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