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Envisioning the Anthropocene
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-04-04 at 23.18.40.png761x696 787 KB For the Guardian, Robert Macfarlane writes about how artists and writers have envisioned the Anthropocene. He helpfully and...
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The future of Afrofuturism: On Nnedi Okorafor
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Zambian writer Namwali Serpell writes about the present and future of Afrofuturism. Whereas during the twentieth century Afrofuturism was largely a phenomenon of the...
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Artists' response to the cancellation of the 'Post-Peace' exhibition at...
@karenarchey wrote: *Editorial note: This is a statement written by artists comprising the censored "Post Peace" exhibition at Akbank Sanat in Istanbul. Scroll down for the Turkish version below. In...
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Dean Kissick on Hieronymus Bosch
@karenarchey wrote: For Spike, Dean Kissick writes about everyone's favorite painter of torture, Hieronymus Bosch. Kissick ventured to the painter's hometown of 's-Hertogenbosch to view an exhibition...
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Tyler Coburn: Live Coverage of "SECRET" tonight at e-flux
@kaye wrote: Shhhhh ... Tonight, Tyler Coburn (@tylercoburn) responds in real time to a roundtable between Hito Steyerl, Trevor Paglen, and Matteo Pasquinelli, moderated by e-flux journal editor...
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Cynthia Carr on Robert Mapplethorpe's archival ephemera
@e_flux wrote: In the April-May issue of Bookforum, Cynthia Carr, author of Fire in the Belly, an acclaimed biography of David Wojnarowicz, reviews Robert Mapplethorpe: The Archive, a book that...
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Taming Amazon in Poland
@e_flux wrote: In Jacobin magazine, Ralf Ruckus writes about how workers at Amazon warehouses in Poland are using creative forms of labor organizing to push back against the company's anti-union...
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The resurgence of Cao Fei
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-04-06 at 15.12.19.png852x558 575 KB With her recent exhibitions at Secession in Vienna and now MoMA PS1, Cao Fei seems to be primed for a resurgence in visibility....
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Art and plutocracy, then and now
@e_flux wrote: In the Chronicle of Higher Education, James Delbourgo reviews The Capitalist and the Critic: J.P. Morgan, Roger Fry, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Charles Molesworth. The book...
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Poem: "My White Feminism" by Juliana Spahr
@e_flux wrote: As part of its celebration of National Poetry Month in the US, the Boston Review is publishing one poem a day on its website throughout April. Today's poem is "My White Feminism" by...
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Andrea Fraser on art museums and prisons
@e_flux wrote: In its April issue, the Brooklyn Rail has a conversation between Andrea Fraser and Thyrza Nichols Goodeve in which the artists discuss psychoanalysis, prisons, and Down the River,...
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The curious dearth of Stalinist fiction
@karenarchey wrote: Like the antebellum South, the Holocaust is curiously one of American fiction's most beloved historical moments. And while slave narratives and Holocaust stories line the shelves...
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Panama Papers reveal art dealer family owner of looted Modigliani painting
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-04-08 at 16.39.56.png628x697 546 KB Interesting news about some art-centric findings of the Panama Papers: a prominent art dealer family, the Nahmads, is in fact...
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Sci-Hub and the academic-journal-industrial complex
@e_flux wrote: In The Baffler, Jacob Silverman examines the website Sci-Hub, which is like aaaaarg for scientific research papers. Based in Kazakhstan—which shields it from US copyright...
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France's "Nuit debout" movement against labor reform, politicians, and the...
@e_flux wrote: As the Guardian reports, France has seen a very Occupy-like movement emerge in the past two weeks, as people in cities across the country assemble nightly in public squares to talk,...
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STRIKE ART: Lets talk about Yates McKee's 2016 book on art, activism & Occupy
@gsholette wrote: Strike-art-800-f343a1493441f6c0a9659cef7210be3e.jpg460x800 311 KB Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy ConditionBy Yates McKee, London & NYC: Verso Books, 2016 (Read...
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Cairo's Townhouse Gallery facing demolition by government officials
@e_flux wrote: As reported by the progressive media website Mada Masr, Cairo's Townhouse building, which is home to the arts nonprofit Townhouse Gallery and several families and businesses, is in the...
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Should Palmyra be fixed?
@e_flux wrote: Writing for The Guardian, Jonathan Jones argues that even if we have the technological means to do so, we should not attempt to "fix" Palmyra in the aftermath of destruction by ISIS....
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What the Panama Papers reveal about the art market
@e_flux wrote: In the NY Times, Scott Reyburn reports that the Panama Papers provide a rare window into one of the shadiest corners of the art market, where the mega-rich, hiding behind offshore shell...
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Is parenthood the enemy of creative work?
@e_flux wrote: In New York magazine, author Kim Books reflects on the creative challenges of women who, like her, are writers and mothers. After struggling to carve out time away from parenthood for...
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