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Art
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If We Rot, You Rot with Us
“Despite the enduring belief that literary nonsense is primarily directed toward children—an idea that has its roots in the popularity of Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss—literary nonsense has historically been weaponized by the masses, always under the guise of stupidity, to effect change.”
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Cool Enchantment
The ad is seductive but transparent. We don’t believe the copy but appreciate its innocence.
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The Border is a Technology—Art Can Dispute It
Art practice and speculative imaginaries can be sites of dissent and intervention.
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Spectacles of Return: The Silent Labors of “Dahomey”
“Dahomey” narrates the Danxomèan treasures’ epic journey home. And yet, the film remains haunted by the visible and invisible human labor that made this homecoming—and its cinematic telling—possible.
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“Suddenly, the New Story Was There”
“I had seen a lot of bitumen in the devastated landscapes of the bitumen mines. But seeing it here, in such a mundane and tranquil setting, surprised me. That was when I first understood that this material is natural.”
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“If You Do Something Social, You Have to Do It Local”: Pedro Lasch on Art, Protest, and Migration
“From the very beginning, I knew I was part of a social movement for undocumented immigrants’ rights.”
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“No Future” Lexicon: Darkness
Darkness often appears as a solely obscure and secondary trait of modernity; but, in truth, darkness impregnates and bolsters so densely modernity’s creative powers.
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How to Forget Alvin Ailey
Even as “Edges of Ailey” gathers such intimate documents, it does not make them legible to its visitors.
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Minimalism Forces You to Imagine: Speaking with Benji Hart and Anna Martine Whitehead
Benji Hart and Anna Martine Whitehead discuss their new performance pieces, and how a commitment to the principles of abolition strengthens their creative processes.
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Money for Nothing: Finance and the End of Culture
Art continues to get made—that’s what human beings do—but capital devours it.
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Finding Sanctuary in Art
A single mural in San Francisco’s Mission District honors Latinx victims of police violence both at the US border and in US cities.
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“Remaindered Life”: Durba Mitra in Conversation with Neferti Tadiar
“The survival of the world depends on the gendered work of subsistence and reproduction, carried out predominantly by women in the global South.”
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In the Age of Artpocalypse: Beauty and Damage on TV
Whether destroying the Mona Lisa or whole museums, why does contemporary film and TV want us to watch the art world burn?
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Escape from Earth: Raquel Forner’s Space Paintings
If the iconic NASA astronaut is a confident (male) neo-colonist, Forner’s Astronauts are infantile, unprotected, vulnerable.
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Literature: What to Make of Complicity?
Turkish literature shows how difficult it is to balance political critique with literary experimentation. But it can—and, perhaps, must—succeed.
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It’s on the Illabus: Jean-Christophe Cloutier and John Jennings
“Everything in the comic has to be thought about from front cover to end … How are you going to use all the secret resources of comics?”
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“We Plot to Undo the World”
Artist Simone Leigh curated a series of intellectual sermons directed by Black women who grieved, strategized, loved, and yearned for community.
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The Art We Do Together: “Art Worlds” 40th Anniversary
Howard Becker pointed out that critics, curators, suppliers, and administrators are as important to the creation of art as artists themselves.
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Gordon Syron and the Art of the Invasion
In what ways might art resist a colonial state? Can a painting function as a land rights claim?
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The Art of Intelligence
Art made by AI subverts our usual understandings of creativity as a uniquely human power.
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Lauren Redniss on the Art of Dance
“The discipline and certain ideas from dance have stuck with me and inform more or less everything I’ve done ever since.”
