Ian McEwan: Speaking Half-Truths to Power
Novelist Ian McEwan recently spoke out about Israeli crimes but made several key errors in his analysis.
Interview with Wendy Navarro
Curator Wendy Navarro talks about art and its relationship to U.S.-Cuban relations, globalization, and political utopias.
Music, Messages, and the Movement
Throughout every stage of the struggle for social change music has both fueled and united people and helped galvanize the movement. Marvin Gaye still keeps us asking “What’s going on?” James Brown helped teach people to be “Black and proud” and to “say it loud”. Song has been a communal act of expression that sheds light on injustices from slavery, to the Jim Crow segregation of the Civil Rights and Black Power era, to social the inequalities of today, and it has also served as a creative release.
A Talk With Wendy Navarro
Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) and Foreign Policy In Focus are excited to announce a public talk with Wendy Navarro, an independent art critic and curator currently based in Barcelona, Spain. Since the mid 1990s, Navarro has been an active curator at the Visual Art Development Center (CDAV) in Havana, Cuba, while working as an editor of the magazine ArteCubano, and lecturing about Cuban contemporary art at the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) and Havana University.
Gulf Tolls: A Poetry Reading
Split This Rock and Poets for Living Waters are partnering to offer a poetry tribute to the Gulf of Mexico and the surrounding regions. There is a $5 suggested donation but no one will be turned away.
Art, Activism, and Permaculture
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination treats insurrection as an art and art as a means of preparing for the coming insurrection.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: Yael Flusberg
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: E. Ethelbert Miller
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: Naomi Ayala
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: Jaime Lee Jarvis
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
What the Chilean Miners Taught Me
The most salient connection between progressive politics and art is imagination.
The Cultural Assassinations of Baghdad
When the American tanks had completed their task breaking down the gates of the Art Museum, the first person to reach the main gallery, which was filled with hundreds of paintings by contemporary artists, was – unfortunately – a thief.
The Spectacle of the Disappeared
Translating a play usually involves only translating the source text’s language while retaining details of periods, characters, names, settings, etc.
Sunday Kind of Love with Brenda Hillman
Sunday Kind of Love is hosted by Sarah Browning and Katy Richey, and co-sponsored by DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Busboys and Poets, and Split This Rock. It takes place on the 3rd Sunday of every month. This month the first hour will feature readings by Brenda Hillman followed by the open mike. Admission is FREE; donations are encouraged and are split between the featured poets and Busboys’ amazing wait staff. Also this month’s event will be preceded by a Craft Workshop with Brenda Hillman at IPS in the conference room, from noon until 2:30.
Latin American Resilience
No matter what comes to mind when you think of Latin America, “Resilience,” the photography exhibition at the Instituto Cervantes, will challenge long-held concepts, ideas and stereotypes of this vast and diverse region.