"Sharing" Economy and Self-Exploitation
...is a ride is a ride), and champion amateurs in the name of disruption. This undercuts any advantage to being highly skilled or professional beyond some bare minimum of competence....
Bad News
...the focus group and the art fair. Bystander, which premiered in March at The Kitchen in New York, promised to explore the same territory. Working with professional actors, newscasters, and...
Vernacular Criticism w/ Brian Droitcour @ New Museum 10/12
...Writer and critic Brian Droitcour presents “Vernacular Criticism,” a talk that looks to writing about art outside the established channels of professional media as a potential source of ideas...
Econospeak
...host of professional and intellectual failures. With the New York Times as his pulpit, he began his omniscient narration: “The central cause of the profession’s failure was the desire for...
This Week in Art Crime
...the amount it cost to fix the plexiglass that Noll broke, as well as hiring a professional to restore Banksy's "angel boy" piece, which was partially covered with spray paint....
On Hurricanes and Beauty
...in parts of the city that have lost power—you can take away our power but you can't take away our polish!) In any case, the Professional Beauty Association has a...
Lies and Videotape
...male instructors, intermittently explores nature, and talks about bonding with professional negroes whose highest possible aspiration was a job at the post office. What the accumulation of these moments provides...
No Resolutions
...believe in social democratic good-life fantasies. Her construction will no doubt draw some scoffs from a few of her less-imaginative fellow professional Marxists, but Berlant’s class construction is in line...
Death Stares
...metal rods to keep them from blurring in the finished image, smartphones and digital photography allow images to be taken quickly or even surreptitiously. Rather than calling on a professional...
Hosed: Conservatism and the Return of Pantyhose
...a prolonged adolescent who still sleeps on a futon and wrinkles her nose at broccoli, but as a professional. As an adult, as a woman who isn’t afraid to take...
The Open Secret
...no room for inaction, though I had no prior relation or interest in his professional pursuits, nor knew her personally. With her blessing I contacted journalist John Cook who investigated...
Gymnastics, Ideal Girls, and the Signal of Makeup
...incredible athletic power of American gymnasts, though. It reinforces their girlish, bubbly image. This piece on gold-medal-winning shot putter Michelle Carter demonstrates that: “For a couple of years, being professional,...
Lonely and crying
...Bee Gees' records where he puts his voice at odds with the comfortable, professional songcraft and the lulling orchestrations, troubling it all with a trembling emotionality that exceeds all causality....
The Risks of Overreporting
...bed for a few days, and not wanting to stray too far from home after that, and wouldn’t be making any social or professional plans for two weeks, why not...
Love Bites
...to force the tooth's roots into "a flattened piece of platinum wire" will be necessary. On this tricky procedure depend not only a young lady's fine looks but his professional...
Multitudes, Horizontal Spontaneities, Whatever
...investment advisors, economic columnists and professional astrologers—all of them proclaiming that China, or India, could now hold up the world with one hand, or that Brazil would soon be richer...