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This week, Everyday for 21 years, Mike Disfarmer's photographs, antiracism in the contemporary university, creator of Dogecoin has a warning, Pornhub's owner, and more.
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A Window Into the Workings of Small Presses
A Poetics of the Press illustrates how invaluable firsthand accounts are to historicize a moment and medium.
Art
The Second Act of Andrew Forge
After finding success in England, Forge walked away from everything he knew how to do and started over.
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A Feminist Take on Medieval Statuary
Funky and elegant by turn, Ann Agee's ceramic Madonnas testify to an imagination run wild.
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Theaster Gates Finds Community in Labor
Gates joins ideas of labor, function, and property with aesthetic and art historical concerns.
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Painting and Time's Winged Chariot
Paint's materiality has a capacity to release meaning into the work, to underscore our vulnerable bodily presence in the world and time.
News
Penn Museum Workers Accuse Leadership of Union-Busting Tactics
Workers are charging the museum's leadership with "obstructing the free and fair election process through anti-union activity."
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Emoji Trends From Around the World, From Flirting to Empathy
An Adobe survey found that 67% of emoji users think people who use emoji are friendlier, funnier, and cooler than those who don’t.
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What Emoji Will 2021 Bring?
And yet, no icon to capture the existential longing of 2021.
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$5M Grant Will Extend Disability Futures Initiative Through 2025
The inaugural Disability Futures Fellows include Carolyn Lazard, Christine Sun Kim, and Tourmaline.
Books
Enough with the Ableist Worship of Frida Kahlo
Emily Rapp Black’s new book cuts through self-serving interpretations of disabled bodies like Kahlo’s, which have long emphasized the comfort or pleasure of others.
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Jean Dubuffet’s Highs and (Controversial) Lows
Curiously, Dubuffet’s anti-hierarchical approach to art did not translate to similar views on society.