Classroom scene, c. 1875. NYPL Digital Collections, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.
• On the “long and complicated nature of desegregation as an ongoing process and still unfulfilled promise.” (TIME)
• “How wild horses became ridable.” (Washington Post)
• Trying to fit The Wizard of Oz into Las Vegas’s Sphere. (Defector)
• “How Art Deco Changed American Cinema.” (Hyperallergic)
• Advice from Zhuangzi: “When we seek a definite identity, we betray our true nature as fundamentally fluid and indeterminate.” (Aeon)
• Bénédicte Sère and Caroline Wazer on “the tension between archival evidence and grand historical narratives.” (Columbia University Press)
• New: Electric recording of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska. (Guardian)
• Now showing: An exhibition commissioned by the Trump administration featuring AI-generated videos of Revolutionary War heroes. (NPR)
• This week in obituaries: Giorgio Armani, Rosalyn Drexler, Carol Saline, Robert Jay Lifton, Patrick Hemingway, Charles Bierbauer, Mark Knoller, George Raveling, Graham Greene, Sylvain Amic, Lee Roy Jordan, Rodion Shchedrin, Frank Price, Paul Colford, Joe Bugner, David Keighley, Islam Abed, Rasmi Salem, Ayman Haniya, and Iman Ahmed al-Zamili.