Essay: Why Houston needs the River Oaks Theatre By Cary Darling, Staff Writer
Houston film fans may want to prep for another potential disaster, though this one has nothing to do with polar vortexes or ominous blips on the satellite off the coast of Cape Verde.
If, as the Chronicle reported Thursday, Landmark Theatres, the operator of the River Oaks Theatre, and Weingarten Realty, the owner of the land on which the River Oaks sits, can’t come to some sort of resolution over an expiring lease at the end of the month, the curtain may come down for the last time in the historic picture palace. And this would go beyond being just more ancillary damage caused by the pandemic, though the collapse of the movie-exhibition industry in 2020 box office was down a disastrous 76 percent last year as crowds fled indoor public spaces no doubt is one reason the River Oaks finds itself in this predicament.
РИА «Дагестан» Учреждения культуры РД примут участие в Днях Дагестана в Совфеде
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Байден предупредил об угрозе американским военным в Сирии от проиранских боевиков
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«Tenemos que movernos con un equilibrio entre lo virtual y lo presencial»
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Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. (Photo by Stu Rosner)
This article is part of a series of conversations with scholars engaged with Black art for Black History Month. See also Folasade Ologundudu’s interviews with Richard J. Powell, Bridget R. Cooks, and Darby English.
One cannot consider the present-day field of African American art history without mention of Sarah Lewis. The associate professor of the History of Art and Architecture and African and African-American studies at Harvard University whose groundbreaking Vision & Justice project has become a part of Harvard’s core art history curriculum is a force to be reckoned with.
With her widely watched 2017 TEDX Talk on visual imagery as a change agent for narratives of Black life, Lewis argued that the power of photography can affect our perceptions of justice, reshaping our understanding of society. She has served both on Obama’s National Arts Policy Committee and as a curatorial advisor for Brooklyn’s high-profile Barcl