Francesco and Grazia Lotoro have spent their lives collecting and cataloguing “symphonies, operas, scores and songs that were composed and performed under conditions so horrible one imagines that music would have lost its ability to encourage and to soothe.” Their project now: To raise money for a “citadel” that is “known formally as the Istituto di Letteratura Musicale Concentrazionaria [and] is to include a museum, a library and a theater, at a cost of roughly $45 million.” – The New York Times
Tag: 06.21.20
The First Black British Author To Reach Number One On The Bestseller Lists Says It’s All Too Bittersweet
Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race was a sensation when she first published it, but it took a lot of police brutality for her book to top the lists. She notes, “To know there was a surge of people searching out anti-racism books after seeing what was essentially a film of somebody being murdered, I can’t uncouple those two things.” – The Observer (UK)
A Nigerian Scholar Calls For A Halt To The Sale Of Sacred Igbo Art
Chika Okeke-Agulu, professor of art history at Princeton, says that the sale of the two alusi would “perpetuate the violence” of the 1960s civil war, when the sculptures were “removed” from the Igbo areas of Nigeria that tried to create the state of Biafra. – The Guardian (UK)