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/ We took a break from our weekly weekend and entertainment segment because actually there were fewer events going on due to the pandemic. But with St. Patrick's Day coming up, we thought we'd check back in to talk about a couple of them and other virtual and live events happening around the Queen City. Gwendolyn Glenn: Joining me is Ryan Pitkin, editor-in-chief of Queen City Nerve. Hey, Ryan. Ryan Pitkin: Hey, it's finally it's good to finally be back and chat with you. Glenn: Glad to talk with you. Yeah, it's been a minute or so. Before we get to the St. Paddy's Day events. Let's start wit...

/ "The Makeover of Progress," a 2019 photograph from SHAN Wallace, shows how a wall meant to divide has actually united a community in Detroit. There’s a line in the poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost that often is repeated as explanation for why everyone needs boundaries and a little distance from others in life: “Good fences make good neighbors.” Most people have not read the full poem, though. That’s not exactly what Frost meant. The full prose is printed on the wall at the entrance to the Mint Museum Uptown’s new exhibition, “W|ALLS: Defend, Divide and the Divine,” whic...

/ Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles backs a plan to no longer send the city’s arts allocation to the Arts & Science Council. The Charlotte City Council Monday backed a plan to no longer send its annual money dedicated to the arts to the Arts & Science Council, a setback for the nonprofit that’s worked in Mecklenburg County since 1958. Last year, the city of Charlotte’s $3.2 million arts contribution made up about a quarter of the ASC’s $13 million budget. Faced with losing city support, the ASC asked people over the weekend to lobby council members to stop the plan, saying the city was creatin...

The Blinding Whiteness of American Art Museums Courtesy guerrillagirls.com In the late eighties, the Guerilla Girls, an anonymous group of female artists founded to expose discrimination in the art world, published a poster that reads, “Only 4 commercial art galleries in N.Y. show black women. Only 1 shows more than 1.” As recent host to some of the most prolific players of the Black Arts Movement of the sixties and seventies, the New York art scene’s culpability in this kind of racist trend was uniquely iniquitous. But perhaps it’s surprising, too, for a second reason. Art museums, t...

The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art is among the organizations that receives funding from ASC. The city of Charlotte is considering shutting off its annual $3.2 million allocations to the Arts & Science Council. Instead, the city would distribute the money in another way, possibly on its own. Under the proposal, the city would increase its allocation to the arts from $3.2 million to $4 million. The money would be targeted to art institutions that operate in city-owned buildings like the Mint Museum, the Blumenthal Performing Arts and the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+ Culture...