In Brief
Ai Weiwei Is Documenting the Amazon Fires for a New Project
The artist announced at Art Basel that he will be using footage of the fires for a documentary, as well as in an opera he's directing next year.
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News
Artists Presented Turner Prize Jury With Their Official Request to Split Prize Morning of Ceremony
The Turner Prize quartet of winners — Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Tai Shani, and Oscar Murillo — say they "hijacked" the prestigious award with their request to split the prize, the Guardian reported. Read the full story here [https://hyperallergic.com/531373/turner-prize-will-be-split-betwe
Film
"DIY or Die": Brooklynites Face the Apocalypse in Empty Metal
We might think of Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer's latest as a cyborg film — both its subject matter and formal approach depend on unifying across difference, a fuck-you to essentialized binaries.
Interview
An Activist Documentarian Charts Detroit's Water Affordability Crisis
"Lack of transparency is the enemy of democracy," said filmmaker and activist Kate Levy. "As an artist, that’s an easy thing to make work about."
Books
Changing the Tune of Globalization
In her new book on changing patterns of cultural production and consumption, Fatima Bhutto posits that it’s not American pop songs but K-Pop that has become the soundtrack of globalization.
Art
A Film Festival Illuminates the Experimental Edge of Appropriation Cinema
Although its roots go back more than half a century, in an era of “fake news” and “deep fakes,” appropriation cinema can be seen as a critical voice of resistance.
Art
Forensic Architecture Joins Journalists to Depict Syria's Use of Chemical Weapons
Investigative journalism website Bellingcat, with the help of research group Forensic Architecture, seeks to put an end to the theories that the harrowing chemical attack against civilians in April 2017 was a "false-flag operation."
Art
Imagining Utopia, Just Over the Horizon
The final exhibition of a trilogy at the Ford Foundation gallery imagines that our best selves have yet to be. They are on the horizon and the people who have been most oppressed, most ignored, and rejected will lead us all there.
Art
Hands Down, This 89-Year-Old Collector Has the Coolest Apartment in NYC
From Bruce Nauman to Do-Ho Suh sculptures, Henry Buhl’s SoHo loft is decorated entirely with artworks about one thing: hands.
Art
A Photographer Shows Deference For Sublime, Endangered Coastlines
Thomas Joshua Cooper has feverishly circumnavigated the globe in an effort to chart the Atlantic basin. His recent photos of the California coast, subject to wildfires and drilling, feel all the more poignant.
Announcement
Hunter College Presents Part II of the Fall 2019 Thesis Exhibition
laissez faire et laissez passer structures itself as a self-conscious strike-out and strike-through — an attempt to erode a compromised structure while ineluctably reproducing it. On view from December 12 to January 4, 2020.
Books
Merce Cunningham Takes the Book Out of the Box
More of an art- or archival collection than a typical book, Cunnigham's recently reissued Changes gathers sketches, notes, photographs, programs, and all other manner of ephemera in a creative package.