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Poetry collection 'Customs' is rooted in un-rootedness

5:21am March 16, 2022

by Jeevika Verma

In her highly anticipated second collection, Solmaz Sharif examines the language of rules — exploring conformity and naming losses. Migration, borders, and displacement are constants in these poems.

American singer Selena rides in a carriage during a performance at Houston's Astrodome on Feb. 26, 1995. The performance was her last before the 23-year-old's murder the following month.

A new Selena album will be released in April, 27 years after her death

8:57pm March 15, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The songs are part of the catalog belonging to the family's record label. Producers were able to digitally update Selena's voice in her teen songs to sound exactly as she did before her death in 1995.

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'a Year & Other Poems' examines the passing of time alongside the passing of grief

3:16pm March 15, 2022

by Jeevika Verma

In her third poetry collection, 2019 Pulitzer-finalist Jos Charles examines time and what it means to mourn — and how knowing that there is an "after" can teach us to embrace it.

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Vitaliy Kulyk, who used to run Lviv's tourist office, has been working 12-hour days, trying to protect the city's statues.

Ukraine scrambles to protect artifacts and monuments from Russian attack

3:05pm March 15, 2022

by Lauren Frayer

On top of the humanitarian crisis, Ukrainians worry about Russian destruction of cultural heritage sites. In Lviv, they're wrapping statues in fireproof material to protect them from Russian bombs.

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'One For All' is a gender-bent retelling of 'The Three Musketeers'

2:12pm March 15, 2022

by Alethea Kontis

In Lillie Lainoff's YA novel, a teen with a chronic illness aims to follow in the forthright footsteps of her father, a former Musketeer.

Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels, by Virginia Hamilton

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Virginia Hamilton's 'liberation literature' continues to open doors for young readers

11:53am March 15, 2022

by Maureen Corrigan

Hamilton was the most award-winning YA author in American literary history, and the first Black author to win a Newbery Medal. A new collection showcases five of her most haunting novels.

Diébédo Francis Kéré, this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize winner.

For the first time in its history, architecture's top award goes to a Black architect

10:00am March 15, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

The 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize honors Diébédo Francis Kéré, who comes from a village with no school in Burkina Faso. He has designed primary schools for "many children to be happy and learn."

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Piedmont Opera presents 'Ragtime'

7:00am March 15, 2022

by David Ford

Ragtime, the multiple Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning musical with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty, a

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Installation view of Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, in "Science and the Sublime: A Masterpiece by Joseph Wright of Derby."

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A mad scientist and his bird in a bubble: The story behind a peculiar painting

6:09am March 15, 2022

by Susan Stamberg

The Los Angeles-area Huntington Museum and London's National Gallery are swapping two paintings: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy for Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump.

Director and writer Jane Campion attends the screening and talk for Netflix's "The Power of the Dog" at BFI Southbank on March 1 in London, England.

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Jane Campion apologizes for comments made about Venus and Serena Williams

10:05pm March 14, 2022

by Alana Wise

The "Power of the Dog" director was apologizing for remarks made in her Sunday evening acceptance speech for best director at the Critics' Choice Awards.