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Political Fireworks: On Independence Day’s Machiavellian Roots
July 4, 2021
Here comes the 4th of July and Americans, newly vaccinated, are emerging from fifteen months of seclusion. Events in the course of that seclusion showed both democracy’s precarity and its seeming resilience. What’s more, Biden’s proclamation of a new Federal Holiday marking Juneteenth—the day in 1865 that news of emancipation reached enslaved people in Texas—has reinvigorated necessary conversations around what it means to build and celebrate freedom together. For all these reasons, Independence Day 2021, may be uniquely reflective.
Read moreSounding Alma Thomas
July 8, 2021
Perspicacious art historian Melissa Ho—who, in her role as curator of twentieth-century art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, oversees the largest public collection of Alma Thomas paintings on canvas—describes the artist’s output as “sensorially rich work that engages sound and touch as well as vision.” Vivid, sense-based memories pepper Thomas’s recollections of childhood, suggesting that she developed a phenomenologically attuned engagement with the material world at an early age.
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