Russian artists attempt to resuscitate Lenin with holy water, a Japanese artist is arrested for putting stickers on road signs, and more This Week In Art Crime
To go along with Lorenzo Raymond's Beyond MLK, we've attached a series of articles, books and multimedia that elucidate a radical history of MLK Jr, the Selma campaign and the Civil Rights Movement in general
Selma depicts Martin Luther King as a hard-headed radical at odds with LBJ by 1964, but his radicalism only came later, after Ella Baker, the SNCC and the movement pulled him forward.
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.