Nasher Mixtape casts the collection s hits and rarities in a new light dallasnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dallasnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Zac Crain
Published in
Arts & Entertainment
February 5, 2021
2:22 pm
Like all of us, the Nasher Sculpture Center has a lot of plans that are on hold. Some of them indefinitely, and I imagine some forever.
In place of those plans, most of us instead have almost a year (and counting) that we can’t get back. March 11, 2020–???? is a still growing pothole in our collective memory waiting to swallow nostalgia or at least run it off the road that is, whenever we get enough distance to start remembering this cursed period of time, or the strength to actually do it. I hope and believe I will acquire the former at some point. I doubt I’ll get the latter. I’ve put most of the past year through a paper shredder in my mind already.
Tang Teaching Museum announces publication of Culture as Catalyst
New book brings campus conversations on urgent issues to new audiences.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY
.-The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College announces a new publication on the most urgent issues of the day. Culture as Catalyst is a collection of compelling dialogues and new writings by artists, scholars, activists, and influential thinkers who present new perspectives that disrupt the status quo by encouraging a getting comfortable with discomfort attitude to work through big ideas to drive change.
Edited by Isolde Brielmaier, the first Curator at Large at the Tang Teaching Museum, Culture as Catalyst accompanies the 20172019 Accelerator Series of public conversations she organized at the Museum to shed new light on the topics of whiteness, migration, mass incarceration, feminism, monuments, citizenship, cultural appropriation, forgiveness, and food justice. These dialogues we
“It’s my choice,” says my family member during our phone call on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. “I resent that you are lobbying me.” Outside, it is a cold, damp afternoon, and the headache I have been fighting all day is getting worse as we talk.I.
My Turn: Please stay home this season
Published: 12/23/2020 3:08:46 PM
“It’s my choice,” says my family member during our phone call on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. “I resent that you are lobbying me.” Outside, it is a cold, damp afternoon, and the headache I have been fighting all day is getting worse as we talk.
I have been polling my family to see whether they intend to follow the Massachusetts governor’s, CDC’s, and other health experts’ pleadings to avoid holiday get-togethers this year to help halt the spread of COVID-19. And, if not, I calmly make the case why, as one health official recommended, we should think about celebrating Thanksgiving next July along with other upcoming winter holidays so as to limit the likelihood of our personal gatherings becoming superspreader events.