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by Roger Stoll / April 8th, 2021 Republican strategist Karl Rove often advised his clients to attack not the enemy’s weaknesses but its strenghts. The bipartisan US foreign policy disinformation machine has taken Rove’s advice with tedious devotion. So, to attack Nicaragua, the machine’s fabrications and propaganda have targeted some of that country’s strengths: gender equity, Indigenous rights and autonomy, democracy, sovereignty, and a successful response to the pandemic, as well as the Sandinista government’s great popularity. This should not surprise. It’s the same Rovian meth...

BAMPFA will reopen May 2. Photo: Iwan Baan/courtesy Diller Scofidio + Renfro and BAMPFA In a sign that COVID-19 is lessening its grip, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) announced today that it is reopening Sunday, May 2, 13 months after it shut its doors. The museum will be open three days a week — Friday, Saturday and Sunday — and will reduce its ticket prices from $14 to $10, implement a timed-ticket system, require face masks, and limit occupancy to 25% capacity, among other safety measures. “As BAMPFA begins the process of safely reopening this spring, we’l...

Tony Bravo April 8, 2021Updated: April 8, 2021, 7:51 pm The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is reopening on May 2 after a 13-month closure. Photo: Cary Groner The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will reopen its galleries to the general public on May 2, following a 13-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. The organization also announced on Thursday, April 8, that it would reduce its admission price to $10, from $14, for the foreseeable future. The museum will additionally adopt a new, three-day schedule: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Sunday with th...

This spring, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) will open three exhibitions that address important societal issues through the work of contemporary artists. Starting in March, the exhibition Ecologies: A Song for Our Planet will explore the relationship between humans and nature, and disruptions to the planet’s ecosystems caused by human intervention. Then, in April, two monographic exhibitions will respectively spotlight Montreal contemporary artists Yann Pocreau, whose interest has turned to cosmology in his recent photography explorations, and Caroline Monnet, whose work sensitiv...

Several of these recommended books on the Chisholm Trail are available for free online. Writers and readers can’t get enough stories about those 1800s cattle trails. As you read this, I am out of the office. Yet I did not forget the statewide readership of the Think, Texas newsletter and column. In my absence, allow me to offer an Aug. 20, 2017, column about the Chisholm Trail written by my colleague Glen Seeber of the Oklahoman, a sibling Gannett newspaper in the USA Today Network. While there are many books about the cattle drives of the late 1800s and the mostly young men who faced the d...