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Because it’s awards season, I’ve been knee-deep in historian Mark Cousin’s 15-part doc “The Story of Film: An Odyssey” and it is thoughtful, informative and takes a refreshingly global perspective on cinema. I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news and Washington dogfluencers:
The legacy of Chicano graphics
“Mujer de Mucha Enagua, PA’ TI XICANA,” 1999, by Yreina D. Cervántez collages images that reflect a range of artistic influences.
(Yreina D. Cervántez / SAAM)
Corn tortillas and edible ink.
Those were the highly unorthodox materials employed by a group of four Bay Area artists in the mid-2000s who called themselves
Join us to discuss the Biden administration s strategy for US-Russia relations and the challenges and opportunities presented in a changing global environment.
Mark Beissinger is the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics at Princeton University. Beissinger’s area of study is the former Soviet Union, with a focus on social movements, revolutions, nationalism, state-building, and imperialism. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, Beissinger is author or editor of five books, including most recently (with Stephen Kotkin) Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2014). His book Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (Cambridge University Press, 2002) won multiple awards. His latest book The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion will be published by Princeton University Press in early 2022.
A ‘Prince’ investigation has uncovered allegations that Katz, a classics professor who spent more than two decades at the University, crossed professional boundaries with three of his female students.
Even before the US became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the republic, says a review on the Princeton University Press website.