Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for CMT “There’s something new in western swing music,” declared a 1975 article in the Denton (Texas) Record-Chronicle. “And it’s no gimmick … in fact it’s just a brand new sound by a lady named Ruby Falls. Miss Falls is black — and to my knowledge, […]
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A Racial Reckoning for Art Museums
As art museums put the pandemic behind them and reopen their doors to the public, many wonder if they will offer a more inclusive environment to staff and visitors than in the past. Museums had a wake-up call amid the social justice protests that rocked the U.S. after the May […]
Minnesota music scene faces a #MeToo reckoning led by sexual assault survivors
The music scene that Lydia Liza entered as a 16-year-old, “vulnerable in every sense of the word,” was full of men and full of threats. Men who groomed her with bad intentions, men who kissed her without her permission. Soon, she and her guitar will return to venues again. But […]
The crypto art group is possessing a sustainability reckoning
Blockchain technology’s several functions have produced it a strike in the art earth, most notably the capability to halt forgeries and give artists a cut of future product sales. But a single of blockchain’s considerably less heralded features has induced a thing of a rift in the art world: its […]