This Week in Art Crime
...was no victim: he paid the pair with photocopied money. The con artists realized they had been tricked when they tried to deposit 1.7 million Swiss francs (€1.5 million) in...
Can’t See the Wood for the Trees
Are trees worth more standing or chopped down as wood? From Marx’s analysis of wood theft to carbon credit programs, the value of forests as assets continues to shift.
Critical Moments: Burning with Pride
...they’ve been robbed of in these stored all these years. “The people here tried legal means of getting help, and they got nothing. They begged the white people to listen...
Whose Garbage Becomes The Archive? - an interview with Eunsong Kim
In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim uses primary documents to reveal the true costs of American art and the instutions built in its name.
FROM HARLEM TO PALESTINE: GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA
Communiqué on the Liberation of Hind’s Hall
Manet in Tunisia
...student protests against the increasingly authoritative regime of President Habib Bourguiba, who, since independence from France in 1956, tried to create a secular state based on philosophical ideas he learned...
The Fame Game
...against moderators, other users, my family. So we tried to pre-screen the secrets, where every secret submitted had to be looked at by a moderator before it could be shared,...
Just Friends
...the way creative technological disruption, in the form of social media, has tried to make friendship just another platform for self-fashioning consumption. There could be another side to this antagonism....
Lies and Videotape
...you’ll feel like we tried napalm out on you, at your expense. We can only give you a hint of an idea of how napalm works. In both films, the...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...conversation he had with Claude Eatherly. Eatherly was the pilot of the reconnaissance mission that checked weather conditions above Hiroshima and gave the go-ahead to the bombing. He later tried...
Survival in Audre Lorde
...In my practice in Poetry I have tried to produce a grammar in which Black existence might be the thought and not the unthought; might be. —Dionne Brand, “An...
A film in the catacinema
...the soft clatter of those ghost-rid horse who whipped back and forth across the icy ground and to the noise of how when they tried to stop this mad stampede...
Square and Circle: The Logic of Occupy
...of the camp whenever they tried to enter. But attempts to mediate the conflict essentially failed, and S. seemed immune to all reason. One day, after he had started another...
The Myth of Meritocracy in Academic Publishing
...built. Publication pathways taken by men and women in the same field is one area where researchers have tried to pinpoint gender bias in academic publishing. In theory, there are...
The Evil to Come
For a brief moment, each one of us saw the possibility of the end of capitalism rather than the end of the world
Nina Bhatti, Founder, Kokko Beauty, Los Altos, California
...to a makeup artist and they look at your skin and characterize what product is going to work. I took the manual process and tried to automate it. So once...