What the hell is going on in San Francisco? The heehawing by the San Francisco School Board on what to do with an alleged “racist” mural gives credence to the belief that
sniffing glue in the San Francisco region is a daily and welcome event (albeit not frightening). [...]
So asks LA Times reporter, Deborah Vankin. The short and easy answer to her question is, yes. Guggenheim curator, Nat Trotman speculates that “the fact that some museum
stakeholders may balk at paying money for something intangible[.]” Initially this makes sense, but it does seem odd considering that many board members profit from [...]
Probably not a good idea to be brandishing and shooting an assault rifle at this moment in time, even if the weapon is being used to alter and destroy works of art. On one
evening last November, musician Ryan Upchurch carried a couple of paintings into has backyard in Tennessee, propped them up against a some greenery and shot them [...]
In a democracy, destroying a work of art is never a solution to any offense it may give. Once art has been made and released into the often choppy flow of life, it should
stay there. It will live on anyway. To dictate its elimination is an implicitly autocratic move, similar in spirit, if not scale, to the deliberate demolition of [...]
The organizers of the trienniale shut down the exhibition “After ‘Freedom of Expression’?” at the Aichi Prefecture Museum of Art in the city of Nagoya after organizers
said they received numerous threats objecting to a controversial work in the show. [...]
Le droit d’accès aux documents publics (documents administratifs et documents juridictionnels, qui sont également tous, en droit, des archives publiques) est un véritable
maquis. Au régime de droit commun constitué par le code des relations entre le public et l’administration (CRPA, livre III) et le code du patrimoine (article [...]
Novak’s [mock Parma Police Department Facebook] page delighted, disgusted, and confused. Not everyone understood it. But when it comes to parody, the law requires a reasonable
reader standard, not a “most gullible person on Facebook” standard. The First Amendment does not depend on whether everyone is in on the joke. [...]
Allegra is going on holiday until mid-August. We’ll gladly receive your suggestions and submissions from mid-August again (and we’ll be cooking up a few changes to the
site). [...]
Out of “love” and “solidarity”, an ethnography written in Greek, is Katerina Rozakou’s insightful study of two volunteer organizations that helped refugees in Athens
in the early 2000s. Since the book is not yet available in English and given the importance of Greece at the center of the refugee and migration debacle, I highlight [...]
The conference No Country for Anthropologists? Ethnographic Research in the Contemporary Middle East, which we co-organized and hosted at the University of Zurich in November
2018, addressed major concerns of all researchers working nowadays in this region. [...]
