The Slippery Slope (2020) by Adam Stamp at the Aspen Art Museum. (Photo Amanda Rae)
There’s a new bar in Aspen that perfectly sums up this period of time during the global pandemic: The Slippery Slope.
Stationed on the top floor of the Aspen Art Museum (AAM) and fully stocked with unopened bottles of booze on mirrored shelving, the installation by Los Angeles-based artist Adam Stamp is intended for real use. According to a museum statement, the A-frame sculpture is an “emotional support object … during a moment when social spaces and socializing is fraught, and as people struggle to find new ways to connect, gather, and celebrate.”
The Latest: Wichita, Kan., is resuming in-person classes
January 12, 2021
WICHITA, Kan. Students in Wichita, Kan., are resuming in-person learning, and bars and restaurants in the Kansas City area can stay open later while keeping limits on capacity because of the pandemic.
The Wichita school district is bringing elementary students back to classrooms Wednesday, after sending them home late last year because of a lack of substitute teachers and rising coronavirus cases.
The district plans for middle and high school students to begin later this month a hybrid mode of in-person learning part of the time and at home the rest. The older students have been remote learning since the start of the academic year.
PENSACOLA, Fla. Florida attorney Fred Levin, who won a major legal battle against the tobacco industry in the 1990s, has died several days after contracting the coronavirus. He was 83. An attorney at the Levin Papantonio Rafferty legal firm says Levin died Tuesday from complications of COVID-19, the disease that can be caused by the virus. The Pensacola News Journal says Levin’s career began in 1961 when he joined the law firm founded by his brother. In the 1990s, Levin was able to get the Florida Legislature to change the state Medicaid law, allowing it to recoup money for the cost of