Culture
Review: “When They See Us”
June 7, 2019New York detectives beat five teen boys of color, starved them, and finally coerced them into giving false video testimony and written statements for a crime they didn’t commit.
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Comprehensive retrospective of African-American artist Charles White at LACMA
June 6, 2019White said in 1940, "Paint is the only weapon I have with which to fight what I resent."
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The working class becomes subject in the art of Gustave Courbet
June 5, 2019Gustave Courbet, born 200 years ago, was one of the first artists to show laborers at work so forcefully and honestly.
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‘The Twilight Zone’: ‘Blurryman’ demands we face our new reality
June 4, 2019This writer would argue that this episode is the best of the season, but only because it builds upon all of the themes and spirit of the episodes that came before it.
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‘Understanding Marxism,’ understanding ‘Wolff-ism’
June 4, 2019"Understanding Marxism" provides the socialist gospel according to Wolff.
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