Deaf rappers who lay down rhymes in sign languages are changing what it means for music to be heard by Katelyn Best, West Virginia University This story was originally published on The Conversation. In April 2023, DJ Supalee hosted Supafest Reunion 2023 to celebrate entertainers and promoters within the U.S. Deaf community. The event included […]

“Art hurts. Art urges voyages—and it is easier to stay at home, the nice beer ready.” – Gwendolyn Brooks, ‘Chicago’s Picasso,’ 1967 This issue of OTH Bookshelf comprises some 200 academic open access titles in the areas of art and art history, focusing on books that would be of most interest and value to HSS […]

by Nigel Fletcher-Jones, PhD Canterbury, in the eastern corner of England, was a city of saints. Eighteen archbishops were canonised before the Reformation and the remains of many other holy men and women were collected from elsewhere and deposited in its monasteries and churches. Yet of its most famous saint, Thomas Becket (archbishop 1162-1170), no […]

In this edition of Industry News, an interview with the president of the Mellon Foundation, a Nobel Laureate’s novel becomes a puppet play, a surprising philanthropic fundraiser, improving your museum’s presence on YouTube, a new open access monograph collaboration is up and running, the inaugural Art Mumbai will have a unique locale, and a stunning […]

Solo exhibitions that are also career retrospectives really call for a space sufficient to show {off) the artist’s complete body of work. Howardena Pindell: A Renewed Language sprawls magnificently over seven rooms and two corridors at IMMA (the Irish Museum of Modern Art). The largest presentation of her work in Europe to date, it had […]

In this round-up of stories you may have missed: there’s no place like home for a priceless piece of movie memorabilia stuck in legal limbo; an Ivy League student using stop-animation to tell the story of what happened after hours in the library one night; UCLA’s Pioneers of Queer Cinema series is going on tour; […]

Ron DeSantis’s Florida House Bill 999, if passed, would enact a legislative takeover of governance and curriculum at Florida’s public colleges and universities. While headlines have focused on clickbait like “ban gender studies majors,” the bill is deeply problematic for many other reasons as well. We won’t focus on those here, but instead present some […]

John T. Caldwell (email) is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media ,UCLA, Author, “Specworld: Folds, Faults, and Fractures in Embedded Creator Industries” (UC Press, 2023)     The future is sometimes best understood from the rearview mirror. Current speculation about the coming AI-bot takeover of all things notwithstanding, we misread […]

by Kevin Eamon Muehleman Background South Africa was the first country in the world to prohibit discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, which was included in both the 1993 Interim Constitution and the 1996 Constitution. Section 9 of the Constitution, known as the Equality Clause, explicitly provides South African citizens with constitutional protection from […]

Contributors Alison Hope Aikon, Professor of Sociology, University of the Pacific Jeffrey Hole, Associate Professor of English, University of the Pacific Joshua Salyers, Instructor of Game Development and Immersive Design, University of the Pacific The power of narrative shapes our reality, providing form and meaning to our experiences and perceptions. This is true for individuals, […]