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Four possible futures
@e_flux wrote: In the LA Review of Books, Jedediah Purdy reviews Four Futures: Life After Capitalism by Peter Frase, published recently by Verso. In the book, Frase innovatively combines social theory...
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Mexican Museum still figuring out who will curate it
@karenarchey wrote: Charles Desmarais reports for the San Francisco Chronicle that the Mexican Museum, though it is opening a new building in San Francisco, has no current staff members with any...
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The Met lays off 34 employees in attempt to correct budget deficit
@karenarchey wrote: The Met has announced that it is making a round of involuntary layoffs, totaling 34 employees, as part of a financial reform plan that will attempt to bring the troubled museum...
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Who owns culture?: On cultural appropriation
@e_flux wrote: In the LA Times, author Viet Thanh Nguyen examines recent controversies around cultural appropriation, parsing the difference between appreciating another culture and stereotyping it....
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Walter Benjamin as storyteller
@e_flux wrote: In the LA Review of Books, Peter Fenves reviews a collection of (mostly) newly translated writing by Walter Benjamin. Entitled The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness, the collection...
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Fred Moten in conversation with Wu Tsang
@karenarchey wrote: For 356 Mission's blog and on the occasion of their Wu Tsang exhibition, the artist speaks with writer Fred Moten, with whom Tsang has collaborated in the past. Here, they speak...
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The dictionary of non-notable artists
@karenarchey wrote: After the artist and author Gregor Weichbrodt noticed his Wikipedia page was deleted for failing to meet notability guidelines, he had a stroke of artistic genius: he downloaded...
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The oppressive reality of Brexit-era London
@e_flux wrote: In Mute magazine, Sam Dolbear, who is a caregiver to a person with autism, writes about how a seemingly minor incident he witnessed in London's Granary Square epitomizes the security...
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The diminishing returns of “productivity drugs”
@e_flux wrote: The newish web mag Real LIfe, which describes itself as a "magazine about living with technology," has a fascinating piece about “productivity drugs” like Ritalin and Adderall, which...
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Eileen Myles on getting a poem in the New Yorker
@karenarchey wrote: For Harriet, Eileen Myles writes about her decades-long quest to get in the New Yorker. To Myles, having a poem published by the New Yorker resembled a feat as it's such a...
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In defense of Elena Ferrante's anonymity
@e_flux wrote: Last Sunday the New York Review of Books published on its website an article claiming to reveal the real identity of the celebrated Italian novelist who writes under the pseudonym Elena...
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Alexander Galloway interviews Sarah Oppenheimer
@e_flux wrote: In BOMB magazine, Alexander Galloway talks with artist Sarah Oppenheimer about her sculptures that draw attention to and complicate the very museum spaces in which they're installed....
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Frieze London post-Brexit
@karenarchey wrote: Now that the United Kingdom is officially on its way to exiting the European Union, collectors, artists and dealers are wondering what Frieze Art Fair will look like post-Brexit,...
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"Art, Protest, Riot": Recent books on art and agitation
@e_flux wrote: Writing for Public Books, critic Justin Slaughter reviews three recent books that examine revolts of the past to suggest a way forward: Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy...
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The emergence and evolution of Afrosurrealism, 2009–16
@e_flux wrote: At Open Space, the blog of SFMoMA, D. Scot Miller traces the emergence and evolution of Afrosurrealism, an artistic and political tendency that he helped initiated in 2009 when he...
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Christopher Schaberg on "airportness"
@karenarchey wrote: Airports--the weirdest of all interior architecture. They are built to herd and direct gaggles of confused travelers through their winding halls; sooth and placate those afraid of...
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Alain Badiou: "There exists an essential link between poetry and communism"
@e_flux wrote: The Verso website has an excerpt from The Age of Poets by Alain Badiou, a book in which the French philosopher argues for "an essential link" betweenthe twentieth century's great poets...
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The long goodbye of social democracy in Latin America
@e_flux wrote: In the context of Latin America, "social democracy" has a different meaning than it does in the context of, say, Europe, where it refers to welfare-state benefits like universal...
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Holland Cotter on Agnes Martin
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-10-07 at 19.48.21.png575x580 319 KB For those of us with New York FOMO (so many great exhibitions this month!) here's Holland Cotter's words on Agnes Martin's...
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Two novels on art forgery
@e_flux wrote: Writing for Public Books, Maggie Cao, a professor of art history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, reviews two recent novels on art forgery: Dominic Smith’s The Last...
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