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Art museum directorships are still a boys' club
@karenarchey wrote: Sonnet Stanfill, a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, has written an op-ed for the New York Times about some major art museum directorship vacancies that she...
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Unions, not self-help, improve work-life balance
@karenarchey wrote: Peter Fleming has written an interesting opinion piece for the Guardian: he argues that self-help gurus have given the overworked unrealistic and innocuous advice, advocating that...
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The end of interventionism?
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, prominent scholar of international affairs Alex de Waal pronounces the end of the era of interventionism. His basis for this claim is two British government...
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What does it mean to "decolonize" a museum?
@e_flux wrote: Writing for The Nation, Michelle Chen reports on the October 10 protest action at American Museum of Natural History organized by the collective Decolonize This Place. Timed to coincide...
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How Syria became the new global war
@e_flux wrote: Der Spiegel has an extensive and detailed analysis of the complex geopolitics at stake in the conflict in Syria. Ostensibly a conflict between the Assad regime and rebel forces, the war...
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A queer punk writer grows up: Michelle's Tea's new "experimental memoir/novel"
@e_flux wrote: In the LA Review of Books, Hugh Ryan reviews the new book by Michelle Tea, best known for her fictionalized queer punk chronicle of pre-gentrification San Francisco, Valencia (2000). As...
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Artists and curators from around the world defend Dahlberg's Memory Wound
@e_flux wrote: Dahlberg.jpeg2048x1152 426 KB The open letter below was circulated today by an international group of artists and curators in defense of Memory Wound, a proposed memorial by artist...
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The first demagogue of the Anthropocene
@e_flux wrote: In The Atlantic, Robinson Meyer makes the case for Donald Trump as the first demagogue of the Anthropocene. What does he mean by this? He means that the conditions generated by climate...
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The New Yorker profiles Cursed Images
@karenarchey wrote: If you've spent much time on Twitter, you've probably stumbled upon the account Cursed Images. The feed simply consists of tweet after tweet of creepy images with no context but a...
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Kellie Jones on how to work in the art world
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-10-24 at 19.09.20.png1047x684 900 KB With the announcement of this year's MacArthur grant recipients came the effusive praise of one winner in particular: art...
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Why Friday’s massive internet outage was so scary
@e_flux wrote: At the website of the New Republic, Jacob Silverman details the surprisingly simple technology behind the DDoS attack that caused a massive internet outage last Friday, affecting major...
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New film Moonlight "dares to let black men love"
@e_flux wrote: Village Voice film critic Melissa Anderson heaps glowing praise on the new film Moonlight by US director Barry Jenkins. The film follows a young gay African American man through three...
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Student debt is worst at schools with the highest-paid presidents
@karenarchey wrote: This report about university executive pay by Jon Wiener for The Nation is from 2014 but relevant as ever: he states clearly that student debt is worst at schools with the...
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Soylent vs. slow food
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-10-25 at 13.28.24.png941x626 362 KB David Sax writes for the New Yorker about Soylent, that adult baby formula favored by tech workers, and the company's new line...
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Paul Beatty is the first American to win the Man Booker prize
@karenarchey wrote: The Guardian (and many other outlets) reports that Paul Beatty has won the Man Booker Prize, the first American author to ever been awarded the honor. His book The Sellout has been...
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Carolee Schneemann finally getting her due
@karenarchey wrote: Hilarie M. Sheets writes a great (though unfortunately titled) profile on Carolee Schneemann for the New York Times, and reading it I was struck that the legendary feminist...
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"Twitter has colonized my mind"
@e_flux wrote: Writing for Real Life, Navneet Alang describes how daily use of Twitter over more than a decade has shaped his everyday consciousness, mode of thinking, and self-image. Not only does he...
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Could landscape architecture save us from climate disaster?
@e_flux wrote: The question in the title of this post is posed by Mariana Mogilevich, an architectural historian who teaches at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, in her review of four recent...
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4chan can't afford its server costs, and Martin Shkreli might help pay
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-10-27 at 12.35.38.png1078x697 794 KB Misery loves company, apparently: 4chan owner Hiroyuki Nishimura, who acquired the site in 2015, announced that 4chan is not...
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Addicted to your iPhone? The problem may be the software, not you
@e_flux wrote: The Atlantic has a profile of Tristan Harris, a young Silicon Valley entrepreneur who is doing something very different than others of his ilk: he's advocating to make software less...
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