“We need to change the world one 5-year-old at a time,” Marlo Thomas on Free to Be…You and Me.
In the spring of 1974, LaRae Petrovich and I ran into each other in the office break room. She asked …
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Sharing The New Yorker’s interactive cover for June 22, 2020. Kadir Nelson’s “Say Their Names.”
Profoundly powerful on Juneteenth; tragic and relevant every single day. Click to experience Say Their Names. I lived through this …
David Oyelowo is powerful as Martin Luther King Jr—you can watch the movie, SELMA at no charge.
Selma, director Ava DuVernay’s biopic about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is free to watch and rent on streaming services …
Connecting the World with Words: A conversation on relevance during a time of virus and unrest.
Connecting the World with Words From the National Book Festival Presents series—Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, and Lonnie Bunch, Smithsonian Institution …
It’s PRIDE month and the 50th anniversary of the post-Stonewall march. Here’s a must-see video.
I know a thing or two about LGBTQ marches and parades—I joined my first one in Greenwich Village five decades …
Video vignettes from Baltimore Heritage are showcasing the city’s rich and colorful history.
In this time of pandemic-related work-from-home days, Baltimore Heritage (BH) has created a clever and smart way to engage with …
Big news from the Baltimore Museum of Art. A $3.5 million gift supporting the world’s largest Matisse collection.
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has the largest collection of works by Matisse of any art museum in the …
Register for a series of free photography webcasts produced by the Leica Akademie.
My invitation from Leica arrived via email. It read, “Though we are separated, we are still able to come together …
You know you’ve always wanted to kick like a Radio City Rockette. Learn how, from the best.
This is fun and clever (and excellent down-time marketing): Members of the Radio City Rockettes are hosting weekly dance classes …
COVID-19: Biased, false information is running rampant. Here’s a source for accurate information.
While I’ve watched the amount of misinformation being spread online grow geometrically over the last decade, I’m absolutely astonished—frankly, I’m …
Taking WFH breaks: The Met—100 curators talk about 100 works, 2 minutes at a time.
Before I joined T. Rowe Price as a writer eight years ago, I’d worked as a freelance or contract …
Keeping busy during WFH time: Museum of Modern Art and Louise Lawler offer a coloring book.
Working from home (WFH) is challenging for all of us. Here’s a great resource for you and your children—if you …
The world’s great museums are closing over coronavirus concerns—Here’s how you can still tour them.
I believe that art museums serve many purposes beyond being repositories for paintings, sculptures, and other works. For me, they’re …
Artists taxes. It’s a complicated space. Artist and tax advisor, Hannah Cole helps untangle the topic.
Hyperallergic is a site that I visit and read daily. Through their clear and timely writing on art and culture, Hyperallergic’s …
This fascinating 1928 film, part of a year-long series from The Met showcases the back-of-the-house.
The Met is marking its 150th Anniversary. Throughout 2020, as part of their sesquicentennial, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in …
Video: On restoring Alexander Calder’s mobile, Red Lily Pads (1956), at the Guggenheim.
The Guggenheim’s Nathan Otterson, Senior Conservator, Objects, and Tracey Bashkoff, Director of Collections and Senior Curator, describe the demanding process …
Dulé Hill reads “As Fast As Words Could Fly.” A wonderful, thoughtful, & teachable 16 minutes.
I joined Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists—now, SAG-AFTRA—in 1972. For the past 48 …
Explainer videos are exceptional or awful. 1950s explainers were films and usually pretty great.
Today, corporations make short explainer videos fast and on the cheap. And, most of them look it. While popular data …
A new Library of Congress exhibition showcases Rosa Parks through her own words and rare documents.
Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words opens December 5 and showcases rarely seen materials that offer an intimate view of Rosa …
Happy 40th birthday to NPR’s Morning Edition. We came close to never hearing the show.
Above, original staff member, Jay Kernis edits tape for Morning Edition in the late 1970s. George Geesey/NPR When I received an …
