“… these men came here – British and our Allies, and Americans – to storm these beaches for one purpose only, not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest, but just to preserve freedom. . . . Many thousands of men have died for such ideals as these. . . but these young boys. . . were cut off in their prime. . . I devoutly hope that we will never again have to see such scenes as these. I think and hope, and pray, that humanity will have learned. . . we must find some way . . . to gain an eternal peace for this world.” – via Carlo D’Este - Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life (ISBN: 0805056874) The Allies That Landed On The Normandy Beaches That Day In Defense of Freedom: United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, Norway, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Free France, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand.
Finding a Penfriend in Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts
An open letter to n+1’s new anthology, which explores themes of racial aggression and privilege as well as celebrating solidarity
Dear
Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts,
First, a confession: I am not Asian American. (I was born in London, am Chinese and monoracial, and have lived in both New York and Hong Kong, where I’m currently writing this letter.) Asian American identity politics is, generally, a no-go area for me: it is a delicate space; I do not want to intrude. I think of one particular literary magazine whose submission page includes the lines: ‘Do not send ideas about people and events in Asia unless they convey something about the Asian diaspora that resonates with the Asian American experience.’ Interesting. I wonder who decided that division – not unification – defined experiences of colonialism, oppression, pain and resilience? (Y
Tess Thackara, The New York Times
Published: 04 May 2021 12:48 PM BdST
Updated: 04 May 2021 12:48 PM BdST Deborah Willis s photographs in Black Women and Work, installed in one of the parks run by the Village of Arts and Humanities, in Philadelphia, April 28, 2021.
In a section of North Philadelphia, near an underpass and up a soaring stoop painted sky blue, Ms. Nandi’s home is decorated with pictures of civil rights heroes and political icons Malcolm X, Queen Nefertiti, Lenin. Here, for some 20 years, Denise Muhammad, known by everyone as Ms Nandi, and her husband, Khalid, ran an afternoon penny candy store for the neighbourhood’s children out of their front living room, but it did much more than sell Tootsie Rolls.
Kick off 2021 with Zimmerliâs virtual programs
Kick off 2021 with Zimmerliâs virtual programs
The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers announced a schedule for virtual programs for the new year while the museum building remains closed to the public and in-person events are suspended until further notice.
The free film series The History of Russian Design continues on Thursdays throughout January. Each 20-minute episode on Zoom is followed by a live Q&A with Julia Tulovsky, curator of Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art at the Zimmerli; and Alexandra Sankova, director of the Moscow Design Museum, the co-curators of the Zimmerli exhibition