Larry’s List: Blizzard-Free Edition
Curl up with some eggnog and click on to find out why Americans can't make things (hint: business school), why Michelangelo wasn't such a loner, after all, and more.
Curl up with some eggnog and click on to find out why Americans can’t make things (hint: business school), why Michelangelo wasn’t such a loner, after all, and more.
On a regular basis, Truthdig brings you the news items and odds and ends that found their way to Larry Gross, director of the USC Annenberg School for Communication. A specialist in media and culture, art and communication, visual communication and media portrayals of minorities, Gross helped found the field of gay and lesbian studies.
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Letters to Michelangelo Repaint His Loner Image When you picture Michelangelo, does the image in your mind resemble Moses? Ben-Hur? In other words, Charlton Heston?
Why Can’t Americans Make Things? Two Words: Business School One of the themes that came up while I was profiling White House manufacturing czar Ron Bloom earlier this fall was managerial talent.
Redactor Agonistes The annual survey of salaries and attitudes of those who work in publishing made its somberer-than-ever appearance last July in Publishers Weekly.
Calling on Leakers to Help Document Local Misdeeds It was a simple idea: Use the power and elusiveness of the Internet to publish secret documents that someone, somewhere thought should be made public. And dare the government, any government, to shut you down.
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Film
Mati Diop breathes life into statues in the ethereal political art doc “Dahomey.”
Arts & Culture
Visual investigations at the intersection of climate change and global migration.
Editorial Cartoons
Though diversity is a driving ethos of this year's event in Los Angeles, the art world is still deeply invested in sidelining people of color.
Artists who tell the truth are the mortal enemies of despots, who seek to distort the past, the present and the future.
Artists, activists and museum staff launched protests after learning that chemicals made by Warren Kanders’ company were used on migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
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