The Deceptive Inclusivity of Glee
Troy Patterson of Slate, who writes that “(a)t its best, Glee is not just entertaining but elating, dramatizing Breakfast Club-quality teen angst with the aid of tight production numbers covering new and classic popular songs.” While this may be true, it misses what I consider to be a much larger and more culturally salient point, which is that the show is a mess of misogyny and concealed homophobia that makes use of cheap racial and ethnic stereotypes for laughs.
Luna Remembers by Paul Chaat Smith
In Washington, a large photograph of The Artifact Piece greets visitors in the National Museum of the American Indian’s third floor gallery. On a winter afternoon a few months after the museum opened, Luna himself was one of those visitors. It must have felt like walking into one of his own installations.
