“Miss Dior” was a Christian Dior line aimed at younger women, founded in 1967 in response to the “Youthquake” sweeping European popular culture. It was designed by Marc Bohan’s protégé Philippe Guiborgé, who later went on to oversee Chanel’s first ready-to-wear line in 1977. This dress likely dates between 1969-1971, as Jean-Louis Scherrer used a very similar fabric for his 1970 S/S collection.
On July 2nd, Paramount agreed to settle a baseless lawsuit brought against 60 Minutes and CBS News by President Trump for $16 million. On July 15, during a regular show of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Colbert went on-air and called the settlement a “big fat bribe” in exchange for a favorable decision on the proposed merger between Paramount and Skydance, a charge currently under investigation in California.
Less than 48 hours later, on July 17, Paramount cancelled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a show currently performing first in its timeslot, giving vague references to the program’s “financial performance” as the only explanation. For ten years, the show has been one of the most successful, beloved and profitable programs on CBS, entertaining an audience of millions on late night television, on streaming services and across social media.
Given Paramount’s recent capitulation to President Trump in the CBS News lawsuit, the Writers Guild of America has significant concerns that The Late Show’s cancelation is a bribe, sacrificing free speech to curry favor with the Trump Administration as the company looks for merger approval.
Cancelations are part of the business, but a corporation terminating a show in bad faith due to explicit or implicit political pressure is dangerous and unacceptable in a democratic society. Paramount’s decision comes against a backdrop of relentless attacks on a free press by President Trump, through lawsuits against CBS and ABC, threatened litigation of media organizations with critical coverage, and the unconscionable defunding of PBS and NPR.
The Writers Guild of America calls on New York State Attorney General Letitia James, no stranger to prosecuting Trump for illegal business practices, to join California and launch an investigation into potential wrongdoing at Paramount. We call on our elected leaders to hold those responsible to account, to demand answers about why this beloved program was canceled and to assure the public that Colbert and his writers were not censored due to their views or the whims of the President.
In the meantime, the Writers Guild of America will support our members at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and across the late-night industry as they speak truth to power and we will explore all potential legal and political avenues to fight for our members in the aftermath of this decision.”
The irony of going to a Frida Kahlo exhibit as a disabled person with chronic pain
and there just being not remotely enough places to sit through the exhibition
There were no spots to rest in the room which showed off her prosthetic leg and crutches and medical corsets
There were no spots to rest in the room that displayed her various medications
Yeah, art museums ive found are really bad for accessibility, because even when you CAN get in, they want people standing up walking around the exhibits. So the few benches there ARE are always VERY FAR AWAY from everything so the ablebodied people have more space to walk around! Everything is up at chest height and everything is so far away from any place to sit down and even if you CAN see it its not from a good angle and youll have people walking in front of you. Its shit. I hate art museums for this exact reason. The only place i can sit down and have things be at the right height is when im in a fucking cafe.
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Finnegan Shannon, Do you want us here or not, 2020. Baltic birch, poplar wood, Formica laminate.
I saw this piece at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and it really moved me and made me think. It’s part of the MFA’s Please Be Seated program, where the museum commissions artists to design museum seating which double as works of art that guests are allowed to actually touch and rest on. The exhibition that the above piece was specifically a part of has since ended, but other artworks you can rest on are throughout the museum.
It’s not a perfect solution—if I remember correctly, much of the museum is still lacking in proper seating—but it’s certainly a step in the right direction towards making museum art more accessible.
Another thing that is confusing is that museums got rid of many existing benches to make museums safer at the start of re-opening for social distancing Covid, so many museums have gotten LESS accessible for people with disabilities while enacting measures that were meant in part for protection. And obviously, there are many different ways to have a physical disability, be it short term (a pregnancy, recovery from surgery) or lifelong.
I ended up buying my first cane as a result of walking around ruins in Spain, and I brought it with me when we visited the Prado. My forever love is the security guard who told my partner (he’s fluent I’m not) that I could use her security chair any time I needed to sit and no one could get me in trouble because she was in charge of the wing. So much love for security people who will work with viewers to accommodate. I just wish there were more places to sit
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