Welcome to the first Essential Arts newsletter of the President Biden era. I’m Times arts writer Jessica Gelt, filling in for the indefatigable Carolina Miranda with a rundown of the week’s culture news the Bernie memes edition.
The Biden inauguration, with L.A. assists
The inauguration proceedings were a little surreal, what with the National Mall largely empty and the ceremony at the Capitol filled with ex-presidents in face coverings reminding us that we might have a new administration, but we’re still in the same old pandemic times.
Arts staffers here, like the rest of Twitter, were amused by the presence of the famously irascible
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The image was stunning. Four hundred pillars of light surrounded the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, honoring the more than 400,000 in the United States who ve died due to COVID-19.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris chose to start their inauguration activities this week remembering lives lost. The scene was stunning in its aesthetic and its message: These were our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers. Friends and neighbors. Our children. They mattered.