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Over 120 Protesters Ask Artis Nonprofit to Clarify "Organization’s Position by Signing onto BDS"
Protesters marched to the offices of Artis, a New York-based arts nonprofit that organizes trips for arts professionals to Israel, demanding the group demonstrate they're not part of a larger movement to normalize the occupation of Palestinian lands.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a house with moving walls, Dread Scott on flag burning, helping artists with illegal warehouse spaces, theorist Jacques Derrida just didn't get Seinfeld, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Phoenix
"And glory, like the phoenix midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Scott L. Malcomson’s ‘Generation’s End’
It wasn’t exactly on purpose that, in the wake of the catastrophe that was Election Day, 2016, I started reading a book about the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Books
Poems About Everything: Bénédicte Vilgrain’s A Tibetan Grammar
Whatever her own commitments to the Tibetan language or Buddhism, Bénédicte Vilgrain utilizes their historical and philosophical aspects on behalf of her own work, and on behalf of poetry writ large.
Books
Muriel Leung Wants to Remember the Color of Her Blood
Muriel Leung's poems grabbed me by the throat.
Art
Guston After Trump and Before Christmas
I don’t know if laughter is the best medicine: sometimes it is the only medicine.
Art
I’d Prefer Not To: 'Enacting Stillness' at The 8th Floor
Overall, the work in Enacting Stillness suggests that, contrary to some of the grander claims made about art’s political efficacy, most art intervenes in the world in a more limited, but no less essential, way.
Art
Liberation Theology: Ragnar Kjartansson’s “God”
At one point, watching Kjartansson’s facial expression grow increasingly blissed-out and almost absent, his eyes directed heavenward, I sensed an echo of Bernini’s ecstatic St. Teresa.
Interview
Beep Beep: An Interview with Brandon Brown
“The momentary eternal sounds like heaven to me.”
Art
What’s Not For Sale: Hollis Heichemer’s Imminence
The thing Hollis Heichemer depicts, if we can call it a thing, seems to be visual experience itself.