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profeminist: Women of Color Working in STEM Fields Are Frequently Mistaken for Janitors Almost half of Black and Latina women working as scientists have been mistaken for a janitor or administrator their offices, reveals a new report on the experiences of women of color working in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. “As one…
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Art dealers, curators and critics still cling to the idea that what constitutes today’s art with a capital “A” must be totally new and groundbreaking—but only to art history. Whatever the initial merits of this experiment, more than 60 years after the true game-changer of Abstract Expressionism (if only to use the U.S. as an…
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savedbythe-bellhooks: SIDESHOW: Sometimes there are other ideas that I think would be awesome. So think of these as guest blog entries from other sections of my brain. This is from a Tumblr that doesn’t exist called Cornel West Wing. All quotes are by Dr. Cornel West, activist and academic. The idea for this blog was…
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I had the, incredible, good fortune of studying with Peter Saul as an undergraduate. Peter Saul is being given his due, belatedly, at the age of 80. The American artist, whose pictures are crude and cartoonish yet steeped in the tradition of classic historical painting, has a new show From Pop to Punk at Adam…
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Facebook wants the internet to know it has changed the way it thinks about ads, charging advertisers only when users actually see an ad, and this rather bold stance could push the rest of ad industry in a similar direction. Today, with a blog post, Facebook said that it will not charge advertisers if an…