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Sasha Frere-Jones and Maggie Nelson discuss writing and form
@e_flux wrote: Pasted image2048x1365 4.16 MB In the LA Times, former New Yorker music writer Sasha Frere-Jones chats with Maggie Nelson, whose most recent book, The Argonauts, has brought her...
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The market as imaginary in post-Mao China
@e_flux wrote: In the March issue of e-flux journal, Jane DeBevoise writes about artists in the post-Mao, economically liberalizing China of the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. In contrast to Western artists,...
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The right to live where one’s culture was museified
@karenarchey wrote: For Verso, Ariella Azoulay writes about the Multaqa: Museum as Meeting Point program, a collaboration between the Museum für Islamische Kunst, the Vorderasiatisches Museum, the...
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul releases genial new horror film
@karenarchey wrote: For the New York Review of Books, Gabriel Winslow-Yost writes about Thai artist and director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's new film "Cemetery of Splendor." While the enigmatic horror...
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Peter Schjeldahl on the 'elusive' and 'difficult' David Hammons
@karenarchey wrote: Peter Schjeldahl writes about David Hammons' retrospective at Mnuchin Gallery in the Upper East Side. Though the pairing of Schjeldahl, an older white male art critic; Hammons, an...
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Geopolitics and Contemporary Art: The Nation-State as the Possible Container...
@e_flux wrote: In the March 2016 issue of e-flux journal, Irmgard Emmelhainz argues that the nation-state is no longer a feasible or desirable horizon for liberation struggles. As global markets and...
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Here's why authoritarian populism is rising across the West
@e_flux wrote: Pasted image1484x1014 2.48 MB It's no secret that authoritarian populism has been gaining influence since the global economic collapse of 2008. Donald Trump's shocking rise in the US is...
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BP to end sponsorship of Tate museums due to profit losses
@karenarchey wrote: Pasted image800x533 577 KB As oil prices have collapsed over the course of the last year, BP has slashed thousands of jobs and liquidated investments, and now will end its longtime...
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The coming desert: Mike Davis on Kropotkin's theory of climate change
@e_flux wrote: In the January-February issue of the New Left Review, Mike Davis has a fascinating and deeply researched article on the climate change theories of scientist, geographer, prince, and...
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"The Racist Dawn of Capitalism"
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, Peter James Hudson reviews four scholarly books that, using varying approaches and emphases, tackle the role of race-based slavery in the history of capitalism....
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Thailand's unlikely art capital expands
@karenarchey wrote: Despite its relatively small population, Chiang Mai has become known as one of Thailand's cultural capitals. Aided by figures such as Rirkrit Tiravanija, the budding art community...
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Live coverage: The Current Convening: The Kula Ring, A Gifting Economy in...
@karenarchey wrote: The Current Convening: The Kula Ring, A Gifting EconomyConvening organized by TBA21, ViennaMarch 16-17, 2016at_space, West Kings House Road, Kingston, Jamaica The Kula Ring, A...
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Luis Camnitzer on "symbolic honorariums," billon-dollar endowments, and the...
@e_flux wrote: In the March issue of e-flux journal, Luis Camnitzer tells the story of being invited to give two talks at Harvard and earning a paltry sum for it. Although Harvard has an endowment in...
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Jack Halberstam on trigger warnings and censorship
@e_flux wrote: Pasted image1200x627 1.25 MB In Signs journal, Jack Halberstam wades into the controversy surrounding triggers warnings, especially in relation to college course material. After a...
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Nicolas Serota: the cost of living in London is driving out artists
@karenarchey wrote: Tate museums director Nicholas Serota spoke with Labour’s mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan and members of the Creative Industries Federation about the obvious problem facing London...
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Must museums be moral?
@karenarchey wrote: For the New York Times, Holland Cotter writes about how cultural institutions have come under a morality mandate in recent years, as emblematized by organizations such as Occupy...
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First look at Ta-Nehisi Coates's comic "Black Panther"
@e_flux wrote: Ta-Nehisi Coates was recently commissioned by Marvel to script an eleven-issue series of comics called Black Panther. The character Black Panther—who by day is the king of a fictional...
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Where have all the art punks gone?
@e_flux wrote: At The Guardian, Hannah Ellis-Petersen asks why "millennial" artists have yet to develop their own counterculture avant-garde, akin to the surrealists or the YBAs of generations past....
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Exhibition Tour: Sarah Braman at Mitchell-Innes & Nash
@karenarchey wrote: Install 01.jpg1597x1200 731 KB Sarah BramanYou Are EverythingMarch 10--April 16th, 2016 Mitchell-Innes & Nash534 W 26th StNew York, NY 10001 Mitchell-Innes & Nash is...
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Reimagining the Paris Commune
@karenarchey wrote: For Public Seminar, McKenzie Wark writes about Kristin Ross's new book, Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune, an "elegant and rather useful cartography of...
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