The 1972 Documenta, “When Attitudes Become Form” … proposed a more pervasive, even numinous conception of art that has endured ever since. It insisted that “art”
is a whole bundle of activities, stretching past autonomous images and objects, that encompasses being an artist, speaking like an artist, and acting like an artist [...]
Welcome to #MDGcomics: Mzungus in Development and Governments! A Phd turned Graphic novel about Mzungus in Development and Governments. #MDGcomics: Mzungus in Development and
Governments! [...]
These days, artists demanding the removal of their works from exhibitions is a common tool in the arsenal of political protest. In the cases of both the Aichi Triennale and
the Whitney Biennial , artists called for their works to be pulled amid protests over what was happening at those institutions. [...]
An alumni association filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the San Francisco Unified School District’s Board of Education over the board’s decision to cover up a 1936
mural by Victor Arnautoff, titled “Life of Washington.” [...]
Today, the city announced that it is bowing to pressure from the East Harlem community: [Simone] Leigh has withdrawn her proposal following the backlash, and [Vinnie] Bagwell
will design the new monument. [...]
The exhibition The World Exists To Be Put on A Postcard has been running at the British Museum throughout the summer. It is an apt location for any exhibition of postcards—like
the museum itself, these objects are deeply entwined with the colonial project. Sold alongside ‘living dioramas’ at worlds’ fairs, or purchased by European [...]
After Ethnos is a philosophically sophisticated provocation and inspiration towards a new mode of anthropological analysis that breaks free from the classic conflation of anthropology
with ethnography and of ethnography with fieldwork. Tobias Rees proposes an anthropology that moves beyond the taken for granted reliance on the category of the human [...]
Where do we draw the line of separation? Who draws it, and for which purposes? When the former interior minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, launched his little war against the
German sea rescue captain Carola Rackete, recounted on these pages by Sébastien Bachelet, he was consciously drawing the line of separation among EU citizens rather [...]
The NGO personnel in Gaziantep’s office (Turkey) was in shock. Little groups were talking loudly in Arabic, or keeping their lips firmly closed. “It was an air-strike”,
my Syrian office mate told me as he showed me two pictures just arrived from inside Syria. [...]
Andersson’s new opus is a haunting and insightful examination of those remote zones of danger and insecurity that are distant yet at the centre of ‘our new world disorder’
(p3). No Go World outlines how economies of risks and politics of fear are firmly entangled – with dramatic consequences for many, including those contained in [...]
