Visible Award temporary parliament live coverage in Liverpool, Oct 31
@karenarchey wrote: Please join e-flux conversations for coverage of the Visible Award temporary parliament by writer Emma Sumner, live from Liverpool on Saturday, October 31st from 12pm-6pm GMT. A...
View ArticleGawker vs. ArtPrize
@karenarchey wrote: The ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids is known as a strange beast: it's unusually well funded, handing out grants to artists totaling over 500,000 USD per year, but also bears...
View ArticleIs it ever acceptable for artists to don blackface?
@e_flux wrote: At Hyperallergic, Seph Rodney reflects on the recent Twitter hashtag "#cindygate" and its associated discussion about Cindy Sherman's use of blackface in a 1976 photo series. After...
View ArticleWhere the patriarchy goes to die
@e_flux wrote: Two artists have created a radical feminist–themed haunted house in LA called KillJoy’s Kastle, and Pacific Standard has the scoop. Happy Halloween everyone! More art installation than...
View ArticleSupercommunity Live(stream)!
@kaye wrote: SUPERCOMMUNITY LIVE [stream]: THE CLIMATIC UNCONSCIOUS October 30–31, 2015 Roxy Theatre, Saskatoon ... (and beamed straight into to your living room screen) Presented in association...
View Article'Community Arts? Learning from the Legacy of Artists' Social Initiatives'...
@karenarchey wrote: #COMMUNITYARTS LIVESTREAM AVAILABLE HERE e-flux conversations is pleased to present live coverage of Community Arts? Learning from the Legacy of Artists' Social Initiatives, a...
View ArticleThe ideology of “world-class” in city-making
@e_flux wrote: In the new issue of Public Books, sociology professor Harvey Molotch reviews Ruled by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi by D. Asher Ghertner, which examines how calls to turn...
View ArticleEileen Myles on being female
@karenarchey wrote: An oldie-but-goodie from 2011, here's Eileen Myles on being female via the Awl. Full version here. When I think about being female I think about being loved. What I mean by that: I...
View ArticleExhibition Tour: Ann Hirsch, 'Dr. Guttman's Office'
@karenarchey wrote: 1.jpg1500x1001 709 KB Ann Hirsch: Dr. Guttman's OfficeOctober 23--November 27, 2015 Smart Objects1828 Sunset BlvdLos Angeles, CA 90026 It's 4:30pm on a Wednesday. I am tired from a...
View ArticleThe psychic trauma experienced by refugees and migrants
@e_flux wrote: At The New Inquiry, Sophie Hoyle highlights an under-discussed aspect of the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe: the psychological trauma that refugees experience during their journey,...
View ArticleGloria Steinem dedicates book to pro-choice doctor
@karenarchey wrote: Gloria Steinem's new book "My Life on the Road," her first in 20 years, comes with a dedication to a long-dead doctor. The image of the moving dedication has been circling around...
View ArticleLevi Paul Bryant on Speculative Realism, New Materialism, and Deleuze
@karenarchey wrote: Here's Levi Paul Bryant on Speculative Realism, New Materialism, and Deleuze via his blog Larval Subjects. Original post here. When I first thought of putting together The...
View ArticleA report from the Havana Biennale 2015
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Kate Flint reports from this summer's Havana Biennale, a most unusual biennial which reflected changing social and economic conditions in Cuba. An excerpt: During the...
View ArticleOn the Chinese museum boom
@e_flux wrote: In the November issue of Artforum, Winnie Wong reports on the staggering rate of museum construction in China over the last decade plus. Between 2002 and 2013, China built almost...
View ArticleIntrusive, invasive, inquisitive Calle
@karenarchey wrote: On the occasion of Siglio Press re-releasing Sophie Calle's artist book Suite Vénitienne, New York Review of Books has published a short profile on the artist by Madeleine...
View ArticleNick Srnicek and Alex Williams on "postcapitalism and a world without work"
@e_flux wrote: Bookforum has an excerpt from Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams's new book Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, published by Verso. In the excerpt, the authors...
View Articlee-flux journal redux: Boris Groys, 'The Obligation to Self-Design'
@karenarchey wrote: Editor's note: This essay was originally published by our sister publication, e-flux journal, in issue 0, November 2008 Design, as we know it today, is a twentieth-century...
View ArticleHomelessness in the neoliberal city
@e_flux wrote: At Novara Media, Alex Gabriel gives a first-person account of being homeless on the streets of London. Austerity and a crackdown on "quality of life" crimes has made it almost...
View ArticleThe meaningful disappearance of Germaine Greer
@karenarchey wrote: This issue, Cabinet looks back at Germaine Greer, who despite her popularity amid second wave feminism in the 60s and 70s, has become all but forgotten. In fact, most discussions...
View ArticleAuthority, the institution, and community
@emma_sumner wrote: Who has the authority to decide what’s best for you? To decide what will improve your quality of life and sense of wellbeing? To deem your needs more worthy than someone who lives...
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