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Hilton Als on the "hyper empathy" of black music
@e_flux wrote: In the New Yorker, Hilton Als has a powerful rumination on several black musicians whose work has profoundly moved him lately, including Prince, Beyoncé, and jazz pianist Cecil Taylor....
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Latina art collective Electric Machete on the Guerrilla Girls and mainstream...
@e_flux wrote: At Hyperallergic, Kari Mugo speaks with Rebekah Crisanta and Jessica Lopez Lyman, two of the five Latina members of the Minnesota art collective Electric Machete Studios, which...
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The novel in the age of digital diversion
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Anna E. Clark reviews a trio of recent novels that take a refreshing approach to digital interaction, suggesting that it has not so much ruined our ability to...
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Sven Lütticken on Germany's cultural heritage law
@e_flux wrote: In the current issue of Texte Zur Kunst, Sven Lütticken writes about the recent debate in Germany over the country's Kulturstaatsministerin, or law for the protection of German cultural...
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STRIKE ART, Question 3: Let's talk about Yates McKee's 2016 book on art,...
@e_flux wrote: (See also Question 1: "Occupy and the return of avant-garde art?" and Question 2: "Occupy and 21st Century Left politics?") Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Conditionby...
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The voluntourist's dilemma
@karenarchey wrote: For the New York Times, Jacob Kushner writes about a pernicious new subgenre of disaster tourism: voluntourism. Voluntourists, writes Kushner, spent thousands of dollars flying to...
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The (perfectly legal) political-financial nexus revealed by the Panama Papers
@e_flux wrote: So far, the swiftest and most high-profile fallout of the Panama Papers leak has been the recent resignation of Iceland's prime minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson. He resigned after...
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Hilton Als on Prince
@karenarchey wrote: In honor of Prince's untimely passing, here's the one and only Hilton Als on Prince and black queer sexuality. Originally published in 2012, the whole, very entertaining read is...
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The new SFMOMA: the museum that tech-fueled gentrification built
@e_flux wrote: On May 14, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, after being closed for almost three years for a massive expansion and renovation, will reopen to the public. In The Guardian, Paul...
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Richard Brody on the film criticism of Jonas Mekas
@e_flux wrote: In the New Yorker, Richard Brody appraises the critical writing of Jonas Mekas, on the occasion of the reissue by Columbia University Press of the filmmaker's book Movie Journal: The...
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Maria Eichhorn on temporarily closing Chisenhale
@karenarchey wrote: Admittedly, I am sometimes wary of institutional critique works in 2016 as they so often look like politics but so rarely act as such. Just when I thought institutional critique...
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The flush MoMA and struggling Met
@karenarchey wrote: For the New York Times, Robin Pogrebin writes about the financial disparity between MoMA, which is rather flush and just received a $100 million donation from media mogul David...
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Applied existentialism
@e_flux wrote: If you're like me, you had an existentialist phase in high school, full of brooding and dour French books. And if you're like me, you probably haven't read much existentialism since...
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Reality is not real, according to one cognitive scientist
@e_flux wrote: In The Atlantic, Amanda Gefter interviews Donald D. Hoffman, a cognitive scientist at the University of California at Irvine, who claims to have a definitive answer to the question that...
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Ryan Steadman on Moyra Davey at Murray Guy
@karenarchey wrote: For the Observer, Ryan Steadman writes about Moyra Davey's latest show at Murray Guy. Davey, who co-ran the legendary Lower East Side Orchard, is criminally underknown despite...
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In Don DeLillo's new novel, and old sci-fi trope becomes reality
@e_flux wrote: In Bookforum, novelist Sam Lipsyte reviews Don DeLillo's new novel Zero K, which Lipsyte deems a return to the epic, socially engaged sweep of DeLillo's earlier novels like White Noise....
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A new documentary on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "unholy mix of genius and...
@e_flux wrote: At the Artforum website, Tony Pipolo reviews the new documentary Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands by Danish director Christian Braad Thomsen. Pipolo writes that even though...
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Blake Gopnik on Cindy Sherman's new work about aging
@karenarchey wrote: It's been five years since we've seen new still images by Cindy Sherman, and these new works debuting at Metro Pictures are a departure from the artist's past Film Stills. In them,...
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Wolfgang Tillmans releases 'open source' posters advocating EU voter...
@karenarchey wrote: Here's an interesting example of artivism that you don't see every day: German artist Wolfgang Tillmans has designed with his assistants some very beautiful consciousness raising...
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"Can a book with bad politics be a good book?"
@e_flux wrote: In the NY Times, book critic Adam Kirsch and novelist Zoë Heller address the question of whether a book with "bad politics"—e.g., reactionary conservatism—can still be a good book. They...
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