Great article by Lauren van Haaften-Schick on the artists’ contract. In March 1971, a broadside boldly labelled The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement
rolled off an independent press in New York. Across the poster’s front was a manifesto by Seth Siegelaub, the innovative conceptual art curator-publisher and [...]
Le 4 janvier 2021 English Version Madame la Maire, Si je vous écris aujourd’hui, c’est pour vous faire part de ma tristesse, et de mon indignation. La semaine dernière,
Negzzia est morte. Negzzia était une jeune Iranienne, venue se réfugier à Paris après avoir été condamnée à cent quarante-huit coups de fouets par son gouvernement. [...]
Comme tu[i] le sais, j’ai assisté, sur tes recommandations, au Congrès International des Capitales du monde. Je dois admettre que, si c’est avec réticence et appréhension
que je m’y suis rendue, je t’écris désormais avec frénésie. J’ai en effet, tant à te raconter! Au-delà du rapport banal que je me dois de te faire, et [...]
Pnina Werbner (Keele University) will speak about “Legal Consciousness Compared: The Case of Botswana”. Sophie Andreetta (Université de Liège) will be the discussant.
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“Them nasty Malays can make it work months after you take it”, quotes Lady Duff G.: This, Cape’s white servants had said of the punks. So, Mr ‘Malay doctor’
downs his tea [...]
I am very fatigued. Since the first day of 2020, something strange has happened to me. Every day I wake up to a different place – well, technically speaking, in either of
two cities. If I find myself somewhere in Geneva this morning, I will be in Hong Kong the next morning, so on and so forth. [...]
ff ff 1. There are two twins sat on the beach but one is farther up the shore, closer to West Point, or right inside it, depending on which twin you are focusing on at the
time. Do not yet pick a side. For now, we will remain impartial. Both twins are sat with their legs crossed beneath them. [...]
“Miss Nina, time to wake up! First bus leaves in half an hour!” Nina opened her eyes halfway, and nodded assent. “OK honey, I’ll check on you in a few minutes,” Laura
replied. Or maybe her name was Jean, or Miriam. All of the social workers at Thibault Memorial City Shelter, also known as “Teebo”, or just “the shelter”, [...]
Detecting art forgeries is hard and expensive. Art historians might bring a suspect work into a lab for infrared spectroscopy, radiometric dating, gas chromatography, or
a combination of such tests. AI, it turns out, doesn’t need all that: it can spot a fake just by looking at the strokes used to compose a piece. [...]
Sing, O Muse, the anger of urban citizens upon whom countless ills have been brought by the City. Many a brave soul did the City send hurrying back to the countryside life,
and many a hero did the City condemn to a daily struggle [...]
