In 1848 and 1871, the working-class citizens of Paris rose up and took over sections of the city, governing themselves in what would briefly become a large-scale experiment in an alternative society.
June 17, 2017
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Minoru Onoda, Circle Master from Japan’s Gutai Group
Onoda daydreamed about the power of his dots and circles to poke a defiant thumb in the eye of “the world we are now living in.”
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At the Venice Biennale, Pinocchio Is a Trojan Horse for Capitalist Critique
In the Scottish Pavilion, Rachel Maclean’s film Spite Your Face lays bare how greed corrupts so deeply that even helpless souls are turned savage.
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Photographs Document Arctic Change on Our Frozen Seas
Pictures like Diane Tuft’s and Stefan Hunstein’s eventually may be all that remains to remind us of the Arctic’s terrible beauty.