Jake Romm
By Jake Romm
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Culture If Trump Eliminates The National Endowment For the Arts, Artists Will Suffer — And So Will the Public
The march towards President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration has been a slow one, each day bringing a new outburst, a new incompetent cabinet pick, or a new rambling interview. Today, the terrible, unsurprising news is that Trump intends to eliminate funding for both the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the…
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Culture Why Jazz Fans Are Mourning the Closing of a Chicago Hardware Store
Earlier today, the website dnainfo reported some sad news out of Chicago – the closing of Meyer’s Ace Hardware. Why should we care about the closure of a hardware store in Chicago’s sprawling south side area (aside from the obvious sadness of yet another small business shutting down)? Well, Meyer’s Ace Hardware is one of…
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Culture Jewish Architect Richard Neutra’s Home Named as One of 24 New National Historic Landmarks
Last week, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced 24 new National Historic Landmarks. The newly designated sites, which include landmarks ranging from a 12th-century village site in Iowa to the site of the Kent State Massacre, “depict different threads of the American story that have been told through activism, architecture, music and religious observance,”…
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Culture On The Eve Of Trump’s Inauguration, This Exhibition Of Protest Photography Is As Fresh As Ever
How exactly should one photograph a political demonstration? There are a few schools of thought, I imagine, and it may be helpful to think of these approaches in similar terms to those used to discuss the various approaches to literary translation – both translators and photographers work across languages in order to best make a work…
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Culture Was Some Nazi Art Actually Pretty Good?
If you find yourself in Munich between now and March, then William Cook of The Spectator.” The exhibition, if you hadn’t guessed from the time frame, focuses on modernism, showing work by the likes of Gerhard Richter and Karel Appel. To hear Cook tell it, the exhibition is interesting, but relatively safe. Artist like Appel…
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Culture Meet The Jewish Photographers Who Helped Shape The Image Of The Civil Rights Movement
In 1965, Martin Luther King told photographer James “Spider” Martin, “we could have marched, we could have protested forever, but if it weren’t for guys like you, it would have been for nothing. The whole world saw your pictures. That’s why the Voting Rights Act passed.” This is, of course, a case of overstated humility,…
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Culture Why We Should All Read This Russian Newspaper To Understand America
If you want to understand the new reality in Washington D.C., look to Moscow. Trump has previously expressed his admiration for Vladimir Putin, and the Kremlin has signaled that it welcomes the incoming American government (whether you believe the new dubious unconfirmed “dossier” or not, many in the Russian government were elated at the news…
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Culture The Coen Brothers Just Announced Their First Foray Into Television
The Golden Age of T.V. continues to get shinier – Joel and Ethan Coen just announced yesterday that they will be creating their first project for television. Little is known about the project so far, but we do know that it will be a limited-run series entitled “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” (a classically silly Coen…
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