@vanessadaou

Artist, Researcher, Islandgyal. “Daou's mesmerizing, Billie Holiday-like vocals strike an exquisite balance between pop and jazz,” TIME

 NYC
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Joined April 2008
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Many universities are now requiring Med students to take art classes as part of their training. Arts teach us empathy, improve observation, cognitive flexibility, reduce stress, alleviate pain, allow us to dream and imagine. The arts are essential to our survival. @LindseyBoylan
hyperallergic@hyperallergic5 Jul 2022
NYC Mayor Eric Adams slashes school funding by over $200 million, jeopardizing art departments across the city. hyperallergic.com/744466/nyc…

As NYC Slashes School Budgets, Art Teachers Are Feeling the Squeeze

Approximately 1,200 district schools have had to decrease spending after Mayor Eric Adams cut funding by over $200 million.

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Sunday Afternoons

Vanessa Daou · Zipless (Songs from the Works of Erica Jong) · Song · 2013

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OOH!! I love this!! Watch these two hear The Chain by Fleetwood Mac for the first time!! I’ve heard this song a million times and watching their reaction made it new for me all over again!! I’m smiling from ear to ear!
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John Coltrane’s handwritten outline for “A Love Supreme”
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some of the best #climate writing I've ever read, by @ClimateHuman please read it (link in first reply) and share it with everyone you know
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Kazuko M.@EstherHawdon26 Dec 2024
"things just happen things really just happen - end of the year" Basho Matsuo (images: Shunman Kubo/ Harunobu Suzuki)
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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

ALT Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

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This little creature has been on Earth before 🤗
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Musician playing a saxophone he made from PVC pipes.
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The Ohio Players - Fire Caution ⚠️ This is straight funk. Please warm up with lesser funk before watching…
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There goes Leader Hakeem Jeffries with another truth bomb. Couldn’t agree more.
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What's moving in the public domain in the US on January 1? Check out this new list curated by Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain! 👉 web.law.duke.edu/cspd/public… And then ⬇️
Montage of materials moving into the public domain in the US in 2025, including A Farewell to Arms, The Sound and the Fury, The Maltese Falcon, and more.

ALT Montage of materials moving into the public domain in the US in 2025, including A Farewell to Arms, The Sound and the Fury, The Maltese Falcon, and more.

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Niels Bohr on Quantum theory 💭
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Ring in the holiday season with classics by our beloved #LadyDay! Featuring tracks like “God Bless The Child” and “Ain’t Misbehavin,’” — queue up the playlist & listen to MERRY CHRISTMAS WITH BILLIE HOLIDAY now! ⬇️ found.ee/Spotify-Christmas-W…
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Bullies.
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Erykah Badu ❤️
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“The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.” Wonderful read on the power of song themarginalian.org/2022/10/1…

Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of Song

“The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.”

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According to the Arctic Report Card, the Arctic tundra has shifted from a carbon sink, which it has been for a millennia, into a carbon dioxide source, while also remaining a methane source. More: climate.gov/news-features/fe… (2/8)
Globe-style map of the Arctic region showing places that were a net source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and places that were a net sink. Isolated spots of very large emissions indicate fire activity.

ALT Globe-style map of the Arctic region showing places that were a net source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and places that were a net sink. Isolated spots of very large emissions indicate fire activity.

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DJ@TheRealDeejayyy10 Dec 2024
I got a chance to interview Nikki Giovanni in 2020 and her words will last with me forever. Rest in Power 🙏🏽
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@Phil_Lewis_10 Dec 2024
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81. wdbj7.com/2024/12/10/well-kn…

Virginia Tech professor, acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni dies at 81

Having battled cancer twice already, Giovanni refused to let a third bout interrupt her art.

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Nikki Giovanni's butter fried chicken via @nytimes in 2000.
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Art Institute of Chicago tackles Pan-African art’s nuances–A new exhibition explores the complexities of Pan-African identity and celebrates Black liberation movements ow.ly/r2is50Uoo7t
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