"In 1972, the year that art historian Cindy Nemser cofounded the Feminist Art Journal, she fired off a letter to the New York Times, taking critic James Mellow to task for labeling a female artist’s exhibition a “one-man show.” “Evidently,” _...Read More_

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>"There is an enormous gap between what people are willing to say in public and what they really think."

"Movie Review: Robert Pattinson stars as Batman/Bruce Wayne in Matt Reeves’s impossibly dark, sad, scary take on the classic DC superhero. Zoe Kravitz, Colin Farrell, and John Turturro co-star."

>"The expectation-defying actor is executing his wildest career pivot yet, returning to the world of giant franchise films as the Batman. Yet he can't help but worry: What is a movie star now, anyway?"

"In 1964, John Cage disclosed that he’d seen a note in one of Johns’s sketchbooks: 'A dead man. Take a skull. Cover it with paint. Rub it against canvas. Skull against canvas.' "

>"To convict the R&B singer, prosecutors focused on his network of enablers."

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"WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD" "Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride."

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Robert Roth on an anti-racist approach to high-school history