Portrait of Adele Quinney, a Native American student at Hampton Institute, photographed in 1899-1900 by photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston. “A girl whose every physical measurement is artistically correct.” Johnston "was able to orchestrate hundreds of Hampton Black and

‘Classics, in both the UK and the US, has sometimes been used as a tool of social gatekeeping, and knowledge of classics has itself been gate-kept,’ Wilson says. ‘Both these things strike me as very unfair, bad for society as a whole,

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Here's a recommended book-list-interview, for a UK publication. For everyone who has had enough of discourse (as I certainly have): it has a tiny mention of Nolan as the hook, but then we move on to some reading. www.countryandtownhouse.com/culture/emil...

Pencils are one of the tools of my trade and this is one of the best sets I’ve been gifted: The limited edition Blackwing 574 Native American. Designed by artist Chris Pappan (Osage, Kaw, Sioux), a portion of proceeds goes to the Cheyenne River Youth Project, enriching art programs for Lakota youth.

Crowd gathers at the morgue gates following the fascist bombing of Valencia by German bombers in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. 📷 Gerda Taro (1910-1937) © International Centre of Photography

Kate Bush with her yellow Ferrari, in Italy in January, 1978, after the release of ‘Wuthering Heights.’ 📷 Angelo Deligio

The man in this photograph as Fred Long Claws Jr. (Dakota Ojibway) from Waywayseecappo First Nation in Manitoba. According to one community member, Fred stood over seven feet tall. The photograph has been attributed to Alexander J. Ross (1851-1894) a photographer known for his work

Widline Cadet’s Doubled Diaspora: 'The Haitian-born photographer explores how various media, from dusty analog photo albums to cell phone videos, store and shape personal histories of migration.' | hyperallergic.com/widline-cade...

Close up of a studio portrait of a young man, part of Bill Cody’s performance troupe, 'The Wild West Show', posing in a Paris studio during the 1889 World Exposition. The circular mirrors on the neck wrap stand out, as do the decorative chain deer hooves over his shoulder, and the beaded earrings.

Ten years later, this exhibition features Santa Clara Pueblo artist Rose B. Simpson’s second customized car, Bosque, a 1964 Buick Riviera painted in vibrant polychrome, debuting at the de young fine arts museum of San Francisco. 'Both cars

If I had to describe the heart and soul of Bluesky it would the following: a guy who didn’t actually read Emily Wilson’s review of Nolan’s Odyssey movie defending it against a guy who didn’t actually watch Nolan’s Odyssey movie

"Archivists, historians, artists and other culture workers are fighting against what they see as a systematic attempt to erase and censor minority voices. Their work involves teaching the principles of collecting, retelling and preserving the stories of Black life." outliermedia.org/black-bottom...

How archivists, artists are preserving Detroit culture

Visual artists, creatives and archivists like Black Bottom Archives are working to preserve Black culture in Detroit.

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Troupe members of Bill Cody's 'Wild West Show,' at leisure in Rome, Italy during the 1906 tour of Europe. Some curious, interesting poses. | 📷 Romualdo Moscioni | © quai Branly - Jacques Chirac Collections

Oh did a female academic with an extensive history of study and practice in a particular area of literature make a reasoned critique of a male filmmaker’s movie? I’m sure this will be handled with maximum normality.

Repairing a gill net, Kasabonika, Kenora District, Ontario c. 1952. 📷 John Macfie. From 'People of the Watershed' exhibition, opening at The North Bay Museum, North Bay, Ontario. 'This multilingual photo exhibit offers an intimate portrait of life in Indigenous communities of the Hudson’s Bay

A Salish canoe on our sea during the annual intertribal paddle. Video from fb: www.facebook.com/share/r/1JcJ...

Yes, I purchase books based on the cover design. Most times, I'm not disappointed. | Naples, Italy

Russell Lee's series of photographs of Chippewa blueberry pickers at Baaganowe-ziibi (Little Forks) Minnesota, in August, 1937, resonate with me in layers, traditional subsistence, the depression, survivance, trade (selling blueberries to settlers at the market), kinships. | US Library of Congress

Love to see Dr. Wilson enjoyinge success and good fortune for her translacioun! It ys not "complicated" why such a thoughtful, adventurous, and engaginge translacioun wolde win over good-hearted readeres. www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...

A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold more than a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.

West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.

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Me: It’s sweet how my cat sits on my chest to comfort me when I’m sick in bed. Cat: I think I’ll eat the eyes first.

Now that many people are buying my 2017 metrical verse translation of the Odyssey in great numbers (thank you, Mr Nolan!), or at least, gazing at it and wondering whether to buy it, I thought I should share some thoughts on the cover design.

For all its immersive elements at the art of M.C. Escher exhibition in Montreal, designed by Italian firm Arthemisia, and curated by the Italian Escher scholar Federico Giudiceandrea, seeing the original woodcuts, retained their impact, many breathtaking | Montreal, Quebec

At the art of M.C. Escher exhibition in Montreal, designed by Italian firm Arthemisia, and curated by the Italian Escher scholar Federico Giudiceandrea. | Montreal, Quebec

At the art of M.C. Escher exhibition in Montreal, designed by Italian firm Arthemisia, and curated by the Italian Escher scholar Federico Giudiceandrea. | Montreal, Quebec

"Zitkala-Sa was then in Earlham College, Indiana, and she attained a reputation as an orator. In one contest, the Indian girl was grossly insulted by a crowd of college men who threw a white flag at her feet, with a rough, hideous drawing of an Indian girl,

Ah Yes, back in Canada. PangJi Guilin Nouilles, authentic Southern Chinese cuisine, 🍜 noodles to die for, on Rue Sainte-Catherine, highly recommend. Merci Montreal!

Grateful that ‘Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun’ (2019) is now earning royalty checks, small ones, but still, that means the photobook has earned out its advance (sold enough copies to cover the entire $20,000 advance). Photobooks are always niche so it means a lot, especially being even

north bay museum: ‘In recognition of the North Bay Museum’s role to preserve and advocate for the heritage and resilience of our Northern community, we wish to show the greatest respect to our fellow Northern communities affected by the ongoing wildfires. For this reason, after much consideration,

Precious moment when World Cup winner Nico Williams looks for his family in the stands to give his gold medal to his mother. 🥹

Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.

Spain became the first nation to hold both the men's and the women's World Cup at the same time!