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Photograph by Jose Guzman Colon Leo Herrera is a marvel a Mexican artist with vision and heart, which collide with his passion as a queer activist. He’s unabashed with his sharp point of view, as exemplified by his visionary film project Fathers, an imagining of a society in which AIDS never happened and our queer heroes hadn’t died. When the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. in early 2020, like many of us, Herrera grappled with the lockdown and the new social rules, along with the rising tide of white nationalism under the former president and how to handle it all. On social media, he started creating blocks of text with his own remarkable takes on current events, everything from new Pride celebrations to the effects of COVID-19 on Black and Brown workers. When the party barge in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico, holding a host of devil-may-care, partying gays, sank on New Year’s Eve, Herrera’s biting post calling out those selfish boys went viral. (There were no casu ....
Cartoon by Karen Sneider About Titian, what can be said after you say that he is the finest pure painter ever? Susanna Kaysen, the author of “Girl, Interrupted,” surmises that the subject of “Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap” (circa 1510) “looks to the left, into the past.” Reading that, I see it. The other Titian portrait is of the artist’s best friend and tireless promoter, Pietro Aretino poet, connoisseur, power broker, feared satirist, author of popular devotional literature and pornography, intimate of rulers including the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and altogether one of the most interesting men of the sixteenth century. (I’m acquainted with Aretino from a bounteous 2012 biography, “Titian: His Life,” by Sheila Hale.) Turning to the Bellini (circa 1476-1478), we behold St. Francis standing outside his cave in a rustic landscape with meadowed sheep nearby and mountains and noble buildings in the distance. He looks skyward and holds out his open hands i ....
UK government faces software skills crisis Governments don t have a good record when delivering IT projects, but a new study from digital experience company Acquia that the UK government is facing a major software skills crisis. Results show that 28 percent of vacancies remain unfilled. Across the 12 departments which responded to freedom of information requests, some 317 developer positions are open, while just 808 developers are currently employed. Acquia also looked at how the Government is approaching software development, and how use of open source software correlates with Downing Street s Technology Code of Practice. It finds that despite acknowledging the clear benefits of open source software, some Government departments have yet to fully embrace it. ....