Did I hear a knock at my door? I stopped what I was doing, listening more attentively. South Africa had been on lockdown for over a week, so I wasn’t expecting visitors.
Especially since the rural townships in the Sundays River Valley (SRV), Eastern Cape, where I was carrying out my fieldwork, were half an hour’s walk from my house. [...]
2020 hasn’t been great, but when we’re presented with generous gems we take them. Here’s a new exhibition on Felix Gonzalez-Torres, which coincides with Felix’s birthday,
November 26, and the exhibition will unfold over the course of two weeks, with new content made available on Collecteurs’ website throughout the exhibition and [...]
Could 2020 get any more interesting? Still over a month to go so I’m sure there will be a competition for dumbest art move of the year. The Palm Springs Art Museums has
openly stated that they are against exhibiting art that shows nudity. Well, not quite, but they are against showing kitsch that shows nudity, which is to say, they [...]
For the occasion of this year’s Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, the likeness of a migrant woman was chosen for a much-celebrated idol of the Hindu goddess Durga. Dressed
in plain saree and with a toda (anklet) around her feet, she carried one of her children in her arms. [...]
The NY Times’ Robin Pogrebin pens a glowing recap of Mass MoCA director Joe Thompson, and the amount of good he did for the institution, the community, and the art world.
I’m curious why she fails to mention that it was Thompson who initiated and strategized the first lawsuit by an art institution against a visual artist, (Christoph [...]
Wherever one looks across the globe today democracy is in decline and trends towards what was once called “totalitarianism” are on the rise. In China 1,000,000 Uighurs
are detained in what Chinese state media calls “counter extremism training centers”. [...]
Après deux ans de travail, le groupe de recherche « QPC et droit de la culture » – rattaché à l’Institut des sciences sociales du politique – vient de remettre
son rapport dans le cadre du projet « QPC 2020 » piloté par le Conseil constitutionnel à l’occasion des 10 ans de l’entrée en vigueur de la procédure [...]
The situation in Myanmar during and shortly after my fieldwork in March 2020 reminded me of the uncertainty of knowledge and call for prudence which started the Allegra
corona thread. In the face of possible contagion, my attention was drawn to my own technologically mediated connectedness: In the context of COVID-19, everyday techniques [...]
