Arts & Culture

Tuesday, July 07, 2020

Arts & Culture

Book World: What's gone wrong in America? An outsider explains, and offers a warning.

America through Foreign Eyes By Jorge G. Castañeda Oxford. 307 pp. $27.95 ---
Changing times, changing traditions

Thai Buddhists have come to terms with the new normal in the aftermath of the Covid-19 outbreak and are even making merit on Asalha Bucha and Buddhist Lent days wearing face masks to prevent the spread of the virus in temples.
A newspaper cartoon with a swastika-wearing Trump roiled a Florida community

Small newspapers in some Southern and Midwestern states have recently issued a cluster of apologies, explanations and resignations over controversial cartoons commenting on protests and police brutality.
Black women say Pinterest created a den of discrimination -- despite its image as the nicest company in tech

SAN FRANCISCO - Two days after two black female ex-Pinterest public policy officials claimed in viral Twitter posts that they were underpaid, faced racist comments from their manager, and were subject to retaliation, Pinterest chief executive Ben Silbermann tried to assuage outraged employees.
July 4th pyrotechnics ﬁzzle as the show can't go on

At John Sagaria's company, Fireworks Extravaganza, the cancellations began in April.

America through Foreign Eyes

Book World: What's gone wrong in America? An outsider explains, and offers a warning.

Changing times, changing traditions

President Trump/ File photo

A newspaper cartoon with a swastika-wearing Trump roiled a Florida community

Ifeoma Ozoma's private information was leaked by a Pinterest co-worker and posted on extremist forums. She says the company did nothing to help her. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Adria Malcolm for The Washington Post

Black women say Pinterest created a den of discrimination -- despite its image as the nicest company in tech

The fireworks show June 27 at Mount Vernon, George Washington's home near Washington. Attendance was restricted to 600, from the normal 2,700, and fireworks were launched from a barge anchored in the Potomac River. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Kevin Ambrose

July 4th pyrotechnics ﬁzzle as the show can't go on

The Sugarloaf Pub sits on Cannon Street in the City of London on June 23, 2020. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Olivia Harris.

The City of London has a slavery problem

The English National Ballet in Akram Khan's

The future of the performing arts is digital. Marquee TV has a major head start.

A segment from the handwritten Juneteenth order issued by Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger telling people held in bondage in Texas that they were free. This handwritten order, dated June 19, 1865, was located in a formal U.S. Army order book and is thought to be the first version of the famous proclamation. It was located Thursday June 18, 2020 at the National Archives headquarters building in Washington. MUST CREDIT: Photo courtesy of National Archive

Original Juneteenth order found in National Archives

Exhibition revives old memories of New World

The statue of Jefferson Davis in Richmond was defaced before being toppled to the ground. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by John McDonnell

What to do when the Confederate statues come down? Leave the pedestals empty

Visitors look at

Glenstone, which opened as a connoisseur's delight, is reopening as an oasis for everyone

Enemy of all Mankind Photo by: Riverhead - handout

Book World: Steven Johnson recounts the tale of pirate Henry Every, who terrorized the Indian Ocean

Capital and Ideology
Photo by: Belknap/Harvard — handout

Book World: The American ideology, on the left and the right, that props up inequality

The Last President of Europe
Photo by: PublicAffairs — handout

Book World: President Macron's mission: Rescue France and unite Europe

Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar
(Photo by: Hachette — handout)

Book World: The man who made Indian classical music mainstream

More than Love
Photo by: Scribner — handout

Book World: Natalie Wood's daughter opens up about the life and death of her famous mother

Big Summer
Photo by: Atria — handout

Book World: Jennifer Weiner's 'Big Summer' is a breezy romp through online influencer culture

Warhol
(Photo by: Ecco — handout)

Book World: Dead for three decades, Andy Warhol is still enjoying his 15 minutes of fame

No Songkran buzz in Hat Yai

Sharon Glasgow, left, worships with others during a drive-in style Easter church service at the Glasgow Farm in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The farm, which is usually a wedding venue, has been holding the drive-in church services due to the guidelines on gathering in groups because of the coronavirus. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Matt McClain

In cities across the world, an unprecedented Easter, lonelier and live-streamed

Photo:Pikisuperstar

Q&A: Ways to remain kind and courteous in this period of social distancing

Best books to read in April
Photo by: BallantineVikingLittleBrown — handout
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Book World: Ten books to read in April

David C. Driskell at home with some of his artwork in 2002. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Lucian Perkins

David Driskell, advocate for African American art, dies at 88 of coronavirus

A 2007 file photo from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Mike Wilkinson.

Edinburgh Fringe festival becomes latest event hit by virus

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