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Tonight: Price of Admission: Counter-Commencement Debtors Ceremony at Whitney...
@nfischer wrote: CAP_resist2.jpg1910x1126 483 KB 7:30-9 PM May 5, 2017 (pay-what-you-wish)Whitney Museum of American Art, 5th floorFeaturing statements and performances by artist-debtors including a...
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Jacques Rancière on populism: "'The people' does not exist"
@e_flux wrote: Ranciere.jpg1021x779 255 KB The Verso blog has a piece on populism by Jacques Rancière that was originally published in 2011 but is arguably even more illuminating now, given the global...
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How right-wing billionaires use big data to sway elections
@e_flux wrote: In The Guardian, Carole Cadwalladr has written a detailed and disturbing longread about how Silicon Valley billionaires and right-wing politicians are using big data to sway elections,...
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Is France's political crisis just beginning?
@e_flux wrote: The collective sigh of relief over the results of Sunday's French presidential elections is quickly turning into anxious hand-wringing, as pundits wonder if Emmanuel Macron can even...
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Is democracy in Europe doomed?
@e_flux wrote: At the NY Review Daily, Sasha Polakow-Suransky asks if European democracy can survive the right-wing resurgence witnessed recently in countries like Austria, Germany, and France....
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"How film editing has changed to suit an increasingly incoherent world"
@e_flux wrote: michael-bay.jpg1180x842 70.7 KB At Real Life, Michael Thomsen examines how film editing in the twentieth century shifted from trying to create a sense of filmic continuity to now...
View ArticleArtists arrested during opening in Belgrade
@hito wrote: Artists arrested during opening in Belgrade After artistic performance in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade in the frame of The Salon of the Unbribables, Vladan Jeremić,...
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Jimmie Durham on being "an artist first and an activist second"
@e_flux wrote: jimmie-durham-phaidon-900x450-c.jpg900x550 90.8 KB Artspace has published an excerpt from an interview with Jimmie Durham conducted by curator and historian Dirk Snauwaert. Durham...
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The New Conservatism: Complicity and the UK Art World's Performance of...
@MorganQuaintance wrote: Following the global financial crisis of 2008, a seemingly worldwide lurch towards conservatism, authoritarianism and xenophobia has seen many a journalist cast the opening of...
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Nazis are suing Documenta
@e_flux wrote: GettyImages-693434384-1024x683.jpg1024x683 241 KB In yet another strange development in the ongoing saga of Documenta 14, Artnet News is reporting that the far-right AfD faction of...
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"Is sound art getting a fair hearing in museums?"
@e_flux wrote: In the October issue of Apollo magazine, writer and composer Robert Barry assesses how museums today have integrated—or failed to integrate—the many forms of sound art that have...
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Why was a far-right German politician invited to speak at the Hannah Arendt...
@e_flux wrote: Jongen.jpg850x850 428 KB The Chronicle of Higher Education has published an open letter from dozens of prominent academics—including Nancy Fraser, Seyla Benhabib, and Judith Butler—to...
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Gary Younge: "Immigrants are not the problem. Borders are."
@e_flux wrote: German police.jpg1240x827 90.1 KB Guardian columnist Gary Younge has written an impassioned defense of open borders as part of a series of articles on utopian thinking published by the...
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Jack Halberstam on hetero-patriarchy and the Harvey Weinsteins of the world
@e_flux wrote: Farrow-weinstein-In-Story.jpg1500x1600 129 KB At Bully Bloggers, Jack Halberstam proposes that recent revelations of sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein and other high-profile men should...
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The revolutionary "intercommunalism" of Huey P. Newton, Black Panther
@e_flux wrote: huey-newton.jpg1200x798 72.4 KB Writing for the New Inquiry, Gabrielle Dacosta reflects on the "intercommunalism" of Huey Newton, a cofounder and leading intellectual of the Black...
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We are not surprised
@e_flux wrote: ABUSEPOWER.jpg4096x3112 759 KB www.not-surprised.org Instagram / Twitter / Facebook / #NOTSURPRISED We are not surprised. We are artists, arts administrators, assistants, curators,...
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"Beatrix Ruf: Rock Bottom"
@e_flux wrote: beatrixruf.jpeg820x461 51.9 KB This article originally appeared in Zeit Online on October 25, 2017. It has been translated from the German by Leon Dische-Becker. ROCK BOTTOM Curator...
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Saskia Sassen on "defending open cities"
@e_flux wrote: BLM-1024x517.jpg1024x517 137 KB As part of its continuing series of articles on "what’s at stake in Trump’s America," Public Books has published a piece by sociologist Saskia Sassen on...
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China Miéville's account of the glory and drudgery of the Russian Revolution
@e_flux wrote: October.jpg1000x602 31.7 KB At the Baffler website, Siddhartha Deb reviews sci-fi writer China Miéville's recent book October, a narrative account of the 1917 Russian Revolution in all...
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Appeal for international solidarity with culture makers in Poland
@e_flux wrote: cover_article_129_en_US.jpg2000x1335 2.86 MB The pan-European online magazine Political Critique has issued a call for solidarity with artists and other cultural producers in Poland, as...
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