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Google Doodle Pays Tribute To A Dancer And Choreographer

“Rukmini Devi, born on February 29, 1904, in a Brahmin family in Madurai, was considered to be the most important revivalist in the Indian classical dance form. Despite strong protest, she not only supported this art form, but also took it to a higher level, which was considered a low and vulgar art in the early 1920s.”

In Case You Missed It: A List Of The Oscars Nominees, And The Winners

Everything that was nominated and all of the winners, including at least one or two partial surprises.

Let’s Talk About Penn Station And Design And What Went Wrong One More Time Before The Makeover

Or, as the subheadline of this article has it, “What makes New York’s Penn Station suck so bad?”

A Berlin Museum Runs Tours In Arabic, Helping To Welcome Some Refugees

“The visits can be fraught. ‘Sometimes people say: ‘The Germans have all our heritage! They stole it!’’ said Zoya Masoud, 27, who led the Arabic-language tour that afternoon at the Museum of Islamic Art, which is part of the Pergamon Museum and filled with treasures from empires past. Often, the visitors say the art is probably better off in Berlin because so much in Syria has been destroyed by the war and the Islamic State, Ms. Masoud said.”

How To Discourage People Of Color From Going Into The Arts

“What happens when people of color are discouraged—both implicitly as well as explicitly—from going into the arts and humanities? Here, I’m not just talking about the lack of mentors or opportunities in these fields. I’m also talking about pressures from politicians, from college administrators, even from one’s own family.”

Can Crowdfunding Save JMW Turner’s House From Collapsing?

“Keeping it standing has involved clearing blocked lavatories by hand, shovelling up fallen bricks and plaster, chopping down trees whose roots were ripping apart foundations and, worse, sewer pipes, and scrubbing down all four walls of a room so cold and damp it had become covered in mould from skirting board to ceiling.”

Oscars New York Times Live Blog

“From the first seconds of his monologue, Chris Rock did not hold back on addressing the racial tension in Hollywood and in America, referring to the Oscars as the ‘White People’s Choice Awards.'”

You Might Soon See A Lot More Of Robert Rauschenberg’s Art

The Rauschenberg Foundation “has decided to adopt a new policy of making images of Rauschenberg work much more widely available free. In doing so, it is urging other artists’ estates and foundations to take a hard look at protections it believes — in the name of safeguarding works from piracy or misuse — have become too restrictive, especially in the digital era.”

These Films And Actors Might Not Win Oscars, But They Dominated The Indie Spirit Awards

“It was as if the Independent Spirits, which manage to pull off an impish, scrappy vibe despite counting Bank of America and American Airlines among their sponsors, were gleefully sending rebuke after rebuke to the beleaguered Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and its #OscarsSoWhite ways.”

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