Anyone who has read the Little House on the Prairie books, either for themselves or to their kids, probably remembers the depictions of Native Americans, not to mention Pa’s episode of blackface and minstrel performance. The librarians certainly haven’t forgotten that. “A division of the American Library Association has voted to remove the name of Laura Ingalls Wilder from a major children’s book award, over concerns about how the author portrayed African Americans and Native Americans.”
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The National Museum Of Natural History Gets Its Murals Back
Paleoartist Jay Matternes “created the Smithsonian murals between 1960 and 1975, working with museum scientists and doing his own research to depict specific environments. Each mural was made for a specific space and exhibition, and each was painted on canvas that was adhered to plaster walls, he said. They took years to complete.” The murals were removed for the multi-year, multi-million-dollar renovation of Fossil Hall, and they’re too fragile to actually put back, but two new large-scale prints will be very close.
What Are Writers, And Institutions, Supposed To Do With Junot Diaz And His Self-Pardon?
And it’s sure not just Díaz: “This ‘talk about how you’re going to do and be better’ stuff isn’t actually a great formula for reconciliation. It offers neither retributive nor restorative justice. It privileges public acceptance over making things right with the actual victims, who barely seem to register at all. But it’s pretty effective: In an age of never-ending public relations wars, we’re so starved for any sign of sincere spiritual struggle that we rush to reward self-proclaimed sinners who say they’re trying to make good.”
For The First Time, UK Top Singles Charts Will Include Video Streaming Numbers
The times – and the methods for counting a song’s popularity – are changing: “As the market rapidly evolves, so too must the chart if it wants to cling to any vestige of relevance: the latest changes will see video streams added for the first time and a new weighting system applied to ‘premium’ streams (those on paid subscription services) and ‘free’ streams (those on ad-supported services like YouTube and the free tier of Spotify).”
Students And Teachers – Often Worried About The Next School Shooting – Have To Figure Out How To Perform Plays With Guns
There are a lot of “learning opportunities” out there in high school play and musical land: “High schools and colleges across the country license shows from an enduring catalog of stage favorites. Firing a gun, whether into the air or at the heart of a young lover, is integral to a surprising number of them, including ‘West Side Story,’ ‘Les Misérables’ and ‘Oklahoma!'”
Some Of Early Cinema’s Greatest Films Ended Up – By Design – In An Iowa Shed
Retired history teacher Michael Zahs saves everything – and in this case, “everything” is priceless for understanding early cinema. The Brinton Collection is “a mammoth set of films, lantern slides, posters and projection equipment from the first years of cinema, and even earlier. There are two exciting things about these artefacts. One is that during the more than three decades after Zahs took delivery of the collection and stored it on his property, he has been showing its treasures to local people and keeping the tradition of the travelling showman alive. The second is the discovery that the collection contains very rare material – films by the French cinema pioneer, George Méliès that were once thought to be lost.”
Check Out The Skills Necessary To Be A Ballet Rehearsal Pianist
It’s a challenge, for so many reasons: “The received idea of ballet pianists is that they are at the bottom of the totem pole, working, as they do, out of the public eye with people who don’t really care about music. On the surface it seems easy enough—small bits of light classics in triple and duple meter with a maybe a show tune or two thrown in for fun. Plié. Sauté. Soutenu. And again on the other side. [But] Ballet pianists at a top company will have about ten seconds to choose the music for the exercise from the library of tunes in their heads.”
Spite Buildings Happen When Architects Get Mad, And Get Funding
“Perhaps unsurprisingly, feuding brothers are one of the most common sources of spite buildings around the world.”
Musical Impressions Of New York On Its Longest Day
On the Summer Solstice, there’s free music all over the city. “The organizers and audiences got a gift this year on Thursday: clear, warm weather, the humidity manageable and the sounds, as ever, sweet.”
Novelists Are Mining Their Own Lives For Fiction, Which Might Kill The Novel
OK, that’s a ridiculous claim. But: “In the perpetual present of social media, when personal presentation, on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, is everything, these autofictions offer an alternative, experimental narrative of self. They are attempts to reshape and repurpose a literary form.”