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Roberta Smith on Francis Picabia
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-11-23 at 17.49.45.png845x615 508 KB The reports coming in from the Francis Picabia exhibition at MoMA makes it seem like museum's unpopularity problems are a thing...
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Arielle Bier on Oslo Pilot: Time is of the essence
@e_flux wrote: DSC07084.jpg2448x1624 500 KB Foto: Ane Mari Aakernes. Symposium The Giver, the Guest and the Ghost: The Presence of Art in Public Realms. General views, OSLO PILOT, 2016, Oslo Text by...
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Radical Philosophy is no more
@karenarchey wrote: On the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities website, editor Esther Leslie reflects on the end of the journal Radical Philosophy. From its roots in the 1970s as a journal by and...
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Following Inverleith House, Glasgow Sculpture Studios set to close
@karenarchey wrote: Following the closure of Inverleith House, a historic mansion that doubled as an exhibition space in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland, the exhibition space of the...
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What is thinking? What is consciousness? We barely know
@e_flux wrote: At the blog of the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks talks to philosopher, psychologist, and robotics engineer Riccardo Manzotti about science's current understanding of...
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What is the new populism?
@e_flux wrote: A professor of politics at Princeton, Jan-Werner Müller's most recent book is What Is Populism?, so he is uniquely qualified to reflect on the implications of Donald's Trump's election...
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Women's invisible labor and the art world
@karenarchey wrote: Macushla Robinson writes about feminized labor, notably emotional labor and care work, and how these have been traditionally unpaid and thus sidelined and unimportant. This unpaid...
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Does Silicon Valley have an empathy problem?
@karenarchey wrote: Om Malik writes about Silicon Valley's sobered reaction to the presidential election, and uses the opportunity to introspect about the tech industry's inability to empathize with...
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Stop deportations by any means
@e_flux wrote: Writing at the Verso blog, George Ciccariello-Maher, a professor of politics at Drexel University in Philadelphia, outlines a direct-action strategy for resisting the deportations...
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Vultures over TMOCA? What’s behind the cancellation of the Berlin exhibition...
@DADABASE wrote: feat_tehran48__IMG_9135.jpg2200x1467 569 KB Tehran Museum Vault Where Works by Modern Masters have been hidden for years. Photo via bloomberg.com by Mohammad Salemy and Stefan...
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Fidel Castro, the bogeyman of US imperialism
@e_flux wrote: Four days after the death of Fidel Castro at the improbable age of ninety, Nikil Saval of n+1 praises his tenacious resistance to US imperialism (not to mention his miraculous ability...
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Mapping utopian Los Angeles
@karenarchey wrote: For LARB, Bonnie Johnson writs about the long, rich history that Los Angeles bears to intentional community making. The liberal city, she writes, has invented its own real-life...
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T. J. Clark on James Ensor
@e_flux wrote: In the London Review of Books, T. J. Clark writes about the strange and strangely political work of James Ensor, on the occasion of a major exhibition of the painter's work at the Royal...
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"Noise-sound” as protest music
@e_flux wrote: In Real Life, music writer Rob Arcand bemoans the feeble unoriginality of what passes for protest music today, and instead suggests that the emerging genre of "noise-sound” is more...
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Grayson Perry: BrexTrump and a Celebrity Artist Gone Wild
@MorganQuaintance wrote: Grayson Perry (CBE)*, is a celebrity pantomime dame signed to an exclusive contract with British 'public-service' broadcaster Channel 4. Back in the '80s Channel 4 blazed a...
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The alt-right has its own new digital safe space
@karenarchey wrote: The corporations that own leading social media platforms including Facebook, Reddit and Twitter are considered by the alt-right to be liberal Stalinists that "purge" any user who...
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How Negritude redeemed surrealism
@e_flux wrote: In a lengthy a fascinating article written for the online journal Blind Field, Jose Rosales examines the historical and methodological relationships between surrealism and Marxism. In...
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"Charter of digital fundamental rights of the European Union"
@Mladen_Libuschewski wrote: charta_social_icon.jpg1316x895 59.1 KB A german citizens' initiative has developed a charter for digital rights in the EU. It will be presented to the European Parliament...
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Stephen Hawking: This is the most dangerous time for our planet
@karenarchey wrote: Stephen Hawking writes about the dangers of nationalism, populism, job automation and climate change, the four of which have colluded to produce the apocalyptic cocktail known as...
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London townhouse that hosted Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes' first romp is up...
@karenarchey wrote: 18 Rugby Street, what a history you have! The London townhouse that kindled the ill-fated romance between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes is now up for rent 60 years later. Hughes even...
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