“But what if we thought about defending Harlem against these same forces using strategies of addition and not only ones of attrition? What if the rule rather than the exception were to form institutions that can support and enable artists who are rooted in Harlem, who have durable connections to its soil?”
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She Walked Away From A Modern Dance Career, And Now She’s Getting Major Choreography Commissions
“Ms. Lang, 41 years old, graduated from the Juilliard School in 1997 with a job in hand, dancing for acclaimed contemporary choreographer Twyla Tharp . But soon the reality of being a professional dancer—repeating the same dances on tour, without time to develop new work—ended the dream. ‘I toured the world,’ she said. ‘And I just didn’t like being a dancer.'”
A Time-Lapse Video That’s Worth Every One Of The 52,000 Books Involved
The video shows “what happened just before the staff at the New York Public Library reopened their 100-year-old Rose Main Reading Room after a makeover in the fall. 52,000 books had to be put back onto their shelves, one-by-one. That’s a lot of books.”
The Scholar Of Horror Who Has Created An Entire Class On Beyonce’s Lemonade
“I’ve taught kooky classes before. I’m the weird one in the department. So, I’ve taught Horror Text & Theory, Black Women in Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror, Speculative Black Women, Bad Black Mothers – so a class about Beyoncé was almost normal at this point. My department is pretty supportive about my course choices.”
When This Singer Visited A Refugee Camp And Spoke Out, Britain Got Surprisingly Hostile
“The 31-year-old singer, who has described herself as ‘an argumentative little shit’, has been both loved and hated by the press and public for a decade now, as is the fate of pop stars with opinions. Nothing she’s experienced has had the effect of muting her voice. She remains bracingly fearless – an incorrigible fly in the ointment.”
Changing Up Late-Night On A New Channel
“‘Desus & Mero’ is loose, cheerful and profane. ‘Late night as a structure of programming does not matter,’ Mero said. ‘It shouldn’t feel like ‘Yo, here’s the news.’ It should feel like you’re looking on the internet with your friends. ‘Yo, you saw this video? That’s wild!’'”
When Librarians’ Freedom Of Speech Gets Silenced, What Do The Rest Of Us Have?
“Parsons added, ‘This is private property.’ It is revealing that a policeman should have imagined, even in a heated moment, that a public library was private property.”
The Art Of Asking Cubans To Imagine Running For President
“‘Let’s use the 2018 election to change the culture of fear,’ Ms. Bruguera said in the one-and-a-half-minute video, adding, ‘To make a Cuba that is run by us all, not by a few.'”
‘Symphony From The New World’ Is The Best Of All Time, No Contest
“The first movement, the Adagio — Allegro molto, is fine. It’s actually extremely good, but if a first movement is good, you’re only acknowledging it on a subconscious level. It keeps you invested. It pulls you into the rest of piece without making a show of it.”
A Play That Cuts Close To Home For One-Woman Powerhouse Anna Deavere Smith
“The protean actress and playwright has spent her career interviewing and then embodying people of different races and divergent points of view — ‘chasing that which is not me,’ as she put it in a recent interview. But her new play, ‘Notes From the Field,’ a prolonged meditation on education and criminal justice, is different.”