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Poet, writer and visual artist Naomi Ortiz

A national fellowship that supports disabled artists has a new class for 2022

10:00am July 27, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

Fellows of Disability Futures for this year honors disabled lineages in art, which is to say, traces the links between elders and emerging artists across the country.

The dictionary aims to be the first to complete the task at this magnitude.

A new dictionary will document the lexicon of African American English

6:42am July 27, 2022

by Jeevika Verma

A new research collaboration between Harvard University and Oxford University Press aims to compile the first fully-formed dictionary of African American English.

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Encore: East LA exhibit features Latinx artists using sound

9:04pm July 26, 2022

by Mandalit del Barco

The Vincent Price Museum in East L.A. features a major exhibition of Latinx artists using sound in their work, from demolishing a piano to dedicating musical oldies to incarcerated loved ones.

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The Q nightclub in New York City received rave reviews after it opened and was often very busy. After just over a year open, the club is now the subject of controversy following a lawsuit.

One of New York's largest LGBTQ clubs is accused of fostering a toxic environment

8:24pm July 26, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

The celebrity-backed, multilevel Hell's Kitchen nightclub opened a little over a year ago. What ended up being built was far more controversial.

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Encore: Whistler's Mother, meet Whistler's very, very close friend

4:27pm July 26, 2022

by Susan Stamberg

A dreamy woman in white painted by James McNeill Whistler is the center of a new show at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Patience (Talise Trevigne, right) comforts Castor (Reginald Smith Jr.) after his breakdown over the crush of dept and his search for a solution as other family members look on.

'Castor and Patience' opera explores systematic barriers to Black land ownership

4:01pm July 26, 2022

by Elizabeth Kramer

Cousins struggle with debts and may have to sell property long held by their family in a work created by former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith and composer Gregory Spears.

The Jan. 6 TV hearings conclude with some really compelling cliffhangers

1:33pm July 26, 2022

by David Bianculli

The Jan. 6 hearings have been packaged like TV shows: Each episode has a plot, and some special guest stars, announced in advance. As a miniseries, the verdict is in: This particular show is a hit.

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Brandi Carlile (right) introduces Joni Mitchell for a special Joni Jam at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival at Fort Adams State Park, R.I., on Sunday.

Here's why Joni Mitchell's performance at the Newport Folk Festival is so incredible

1:08pm July 26, 2022

by Vanessa Romo

The iconic singer-songwriter wasn't able to walk or talk after a brain aneurysm in 2015. Dr. Anthony Wang, a neurosurgeon, explains the challenges she faced as a musician and her remarkable comeback.

In 1998, animated insects skittered onto movie screens in A Bug's Life and Antz.

Seeing double: Near-identical films that came out at the same time

11:06am July 26, 2022

by Bob Mondello

What happens when two studios are making the same movie and neither studio blinks?

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What makes a death scene 'immortal?' A writer explains his favorite fictional deaths

5:10pm July 25, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Dan Kois about his list of "The 50 Greatest Fictional Deaths of All Time" in Slate.