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New Valentine Exhibit Tackles Racial History Along Monument Ave
RICHMOND, Virginia - The Valentine chose a day celebrating love to open its new exhibit “Monument Avenue: General Demotion/General Devotion,” a series of design ideas to tackle conversations about race and the five Confederate statues on historic Monument Avenue.
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I Am My Own ValentineBy Ghia Vitale I always count myself as a valentine on Valentine’s Day. For autosexuals and autoromantics, Valentine’s Day is another opportunity to enjoy loving ourselves. However, you don’t have to be sexually or emotionally attracted to yourself to be your own valentine. All you need to do is embrace self-love.
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Essay: The Past, Present, and Future in Lebanon's Beit Beirut Museum and Urban Cultural Center2/13/2019 A Tribute to 7,000 Years of History
By Melina Bee
The museum and urban cultural center Beit Beirut merges pre- and post-war Lebanon to create a healing space. The building once occupied the physical border between warring factions to the east and west. Now it occupies the emotional border between a painful history and the promise of a better future.
The museum's exhibits, as well as the building itself, stand as a testament to a resilient country and people still reconciling loss and hope. Beit Beirut currently showcases the remnants of a photo studio it once housed, as well as modern photos which capture the reality of child labor. When he designed the building in 1924, architect Youssef Aftmus could never have imagined the horrors that would later take place here. Originally named Beit Barakat after the family who commissioned it, the building quickly earned the enduring nickname of “the yellow house” due to its sandstone facade. The spacious, airy layout, and prime location were a major draw for middle class families and ground floor shops. Tragically, these same features would attract danger and violence during the Lebanese Civil War. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Interview: Deborah Yasinsky, Curator of "LISTEN: Artists Respond to Politics" at BronxArtSpace2/13/2019 Embracing & Reclaiming Themselves Through ArtBy The Editors It's 2019 and a Texas official recently called Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a "bimbo." Surprised? We wish we were. But this isn't exactly the friendliest political climate for women, particularly women of color. That's why we're excited about LISTEN: Artists Respond to Politics, an exhibit hitting BronxArtSpace in the Bronx's Mott Haven neighborhood. (Not part of A.O.C.'s district, but we're still here for the #AOC hype.) LISTEN features the work of 13 women and gender non-conforming artists, including Seyi Adebanjo, Lizzy Alejandro, Pamela Cortez, Quail Bell Magazine founder Christine Sloan Stoddard, and others—and just in time for National Women's Month, with the bulk of the show taking place in March. LISTEN runs Feb. 27-April 6, and there's a flurry of related workshops and other special events to bring you back more than once.
Curator Deborah Yasinsky was kind enough to answer a few of our questions about the exhibit in advance of the busy installation process: How would you describe the themes and content of LISTEN in a sentence? LISTEN: Artists Respond to Politics focuses on artists' work that responds to our current political times and the #MeToo movement. Artists address an array of themes, including social, political, and gender constructs. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Indie Magazines Must Embrace Women of ColorBy Virginia Sánchez I'm used to mainstream fashion and beauty magazines neglecting visibly non-white women in their photo shoots and advertisements, but I expect better from independent magazines. A so-called feminist culture publication of any kind needs diverse representation. Black, brown, and yellow women need a clear presence in indie magazines. You should find images of them on the homepage. You should find images of them as illustrations in articles, essays, short stories, and poems. You should find them on the masthead, too, but I'll set aside the lack of diversity in magazine staffs for the purposes of this op-ed and focus on image curation. Representation in image curation improves when more non-white women are on staff, but it's also something white editors can take the initiative to do. These days, with stock photography and social media embeds at an editor's disposal, there's no excuse not to have women of color grace their pages. No more lip service will do—action is all that matters.
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Pay Homage To These Architectural RelicsThe New York City travel photos in this post depict grotesques, which are similar to gargoyles but lack a water spout. Just look at the monsters' mouths to see what I mean. There's no place for rain water to come out. Now that you know you're looking at grotesques and not cemetery statues, I'm going to tell you a story that my ceramic sculpture professor told me and that you might've seen in the news last summer:
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Music Therapy Remains an Uncertified Medical Practice in Virginia RICHMOND, Virginia— Patients who rely on musical therapy to overcome trauma may remain susceptible to receiving unqualified care after a House subcommittee watered down a bill by Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel.
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Free Yourself & Read
By M. Alouette
Many poets dread poetry readings for all kinds of reasons. The schmoozing. The self-promotion. The careerism Maybe they're afraid of meeting a poet whose work they love only to discover that they don't like them as a person. Maybe they're nervous about feeling obligated to spend money on drinks, food, and new books when they're broke. Maybe they don't want to leave the house and brave public transportation or figure out parking near the venue. But perhaps the biggest reason many poets fear poetry readings is pure anxiety. They are afraid of getting up in front of a group of people and reading. If this is you, be kind to yourself.
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Virginia Expresses ‘Profound Regret’ for History of LynchingsRICHMOND, Virginia — Outlining a “dark and shameful chapter of American history,” state legislators have unanimously passed resolutions to “acknowledge with profound regret the existence and acceptance of lynching” in Virginia, where more than 80 people — mostly African-American men — were killed by mobs in the decades after the Civil War.
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Your Quail Bell Submission Won't Make Me Sleep With YouDear Facebook friends who better have the self-awareness to know who they are,
I’m not looking for action. I’m happily married and intend to stay that way. If you connected with me on Facebook primarily because you have romantic intentions in mind, please unfriend me. If you try to connect with me on Facebook for the same reason, I will ignore you. I’m not interested in hearing about whatever fake art or publishing project you made up to get my attention under false pretenses. I don’t care if our work appeared in the same show or magazine if you’re only bringing it up to mack on me. I definitely don’t want your shameless flirting, vulgar messages, or dick pics. What you want is NEVER going to happen. |
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