arts and culture – Page 102

‘Summer of Soul,’ a look back at the pulsating 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival

July 23, 2021 By Anthony Mangos

Music scene of the late sixties and early seventies was a zenith for the many styles of which African were a part.

Cannes and COVID go together like a horse and carriage

July 22, 2021 By Dennis Broe

Another Cannes Film Festival is in the books and this one was beset with all the contemporary contradictions as the global crisis outran the global comeback.

New crime fiction novel ‘A Hello to Arms’ slams postwar capitalism in L.A.

July 21, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon

Dennis Broe’s new crime fiction novel starring private investigator Harry Palmer in his second Los Angeles outing has just appeared from Pathmark Press.

Cannes 2021: The best lack conviction, the worst filled with passionate intensity

July 12, 2021 By Dennis Broe

This year the entire festival bureaucracy has moved online, which caused much initial chaos.

The Colescott Chronicles Part 2: Expanding Black representation, critiquing consumerism and colonialism

June 25, 2021 By Dennis Broe

[caption id="attachment_110481" align="alignright" width="430"] "George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware." Seattle Art Museum[/caption] Robert Colescott’s satire of Americana George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware has now become the centerpiece of L.A.’s new Lucas Museum of American...