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Propaganda: 📣 From Screed to Screen📱
This edition, we look at the origins of the term propaganda, some 20th-century incarnations, and how propaganda is playing out during the 2020 US election.
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Art
Required Reading
This week, the rich and their distaste for real reporting, museums and racism, dispronouncing people's names, Mommalorians, and more.
Music
Four Genre-Bending Releases to Blast This Weekend
From political punk to a rapper-turned-rocker, the releases below are all riotous.
Film
A Woman Escapes the Grip of Men in Charlie Kaufman's Latest Film
Director Charlie Kaufman’s men leech off women for validation, while women attempt to escape their parasitic grip.
Books
The Meanings of Minimalist Memorials
Monuments are built only when the political struggle they commemorate has been definitively won.
Art
Surrealism’s Unfinished Business
The art of the collagiste is essentially the art of the scavenger, the opportunistic thief.
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“Looking at the imagery is like reviewing a memory bank.”
Art
Lisa Corinne Davis Critiques Corporate America Through Abstract Art
Davis recognizes that grids, networks, and circuits are not purely a product of the art world, and there are myriad contexts in which the government and corporate America deploy them.
News
Arts Administrators Met With New York Lawmakers About Much-needed Pandemic Funding
New York State has lost 32,000 — approximately 50% — of its performing arts jobs in the past year, and “more than 4,400 jobs in museums,” according to Elie Dvorkin of Center for an Urban Future.
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Everson Museum Stands By Deaccession of Pollock Painting Amid Legal Challenges
A petitioner has abandoned claims filed with the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Education challenging the sale of Jackson Pollock’s “Red Composition,” which realized $13 million.
Art
Drive Along Sunset Boulevard With Ed Ruscha
The Getty Research Institute launched a website that allows you to hop in a vintage car and travel along the boulevard between 1965 and 2007.
News
Responding to Backlash, Baltimore Museum Board Chair Defends Deaccessioning
In a public letter yesterday and in an interview with Hyperallergic, Clair Zamoiski Segal, chair of the board of trustees, addressed criticism of the BMA’s decision to sell three paintings from its collection.