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SODOMY

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Censorship has been a hot-topic, no matter what the medium is. Last week, MACBA’s director Bartomeu Marí decided to cancel the show The Beast and The Foreign, due to Ines Doujak’s work , Not Dressed for Conquering that depicts former Spanish king Juan Carlos and Bolivian Labor leader Domitila Chúngara during a sodomy act with a dog on [...]

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Searching for good news

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Sure, there are a lot of bad things happening out there but let’s focus on the positive – after winter always comes summer, Gus van Sant keeps on producing movies we are looking forward to, the second edition of the first recycled Fairphone is in work, the number of Ebola reinfections seems to finally go [...]

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DARK NIGHT POEM

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

by Paul Celan, beloved poet of the dark.
Translation by Michael Hamburger.

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“IS THE MUSEUM A BATTLEFIELD?”

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Filmmaker, visual artist, author Hito Steyerl asks:
“…armed forces fire flares to add to the confusing scene of giant smoke plumes, ambulance horns, and faces illuminated by mobile phone screens. At the Cultural Center, a brilliant, all-female group of culture workers and municipality officials discusses the role of art with me. I pan to frame [...]

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ZAHA HADID & SLEUK RITH

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Architect Zaha Hadid recently revealed the design of the Sleuk Rith Institute in Cambodia; a center for the commemoration of the Khmer Rouge era. The new institute will not only house the vast archives but also provide educational and cultural platforms including a graduate school focusing on human rights, a library and a museum as [...]

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NOT AT BLENHEIM PALACE

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Nowness feature a beautiful portrait of our former cover star Ai Weiwei to celebrate his latest exhibition at Blenheim Palace in the UK – as shockingly usual, Ai Weiwei is holding the exhibition in absentia, as he is still not allowed to leave China.

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The Revolution will be colored

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Lapham’s Quarterly shows the colorful side of revolutions.

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Brian Eno: No rhetorical questions

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Brian Eno shares his thoughts about the situation in Gaza and asks important questions. Peter Schwartz tries to answer and explain. Worth reading. There is no appropriate picture to illustrate this post.
Brian Eno: Gaza and the Loss of Civilization

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LIFE 1964: “New York’s Negro Ghetto Erupts”

Thursday, July 17, 2014

50 years back, on July 16 fifteen year old James Powell was shot and killed by Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan. It happened on a hot thursday.
Life magazine reports on page 14: “The Harlem Riots: New York’s Negro Ghetto Erupts”.
Buy a copy now for only US $7.95

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JAPAN SYNDROME

Monday, May 19, 2014

Three years after the tsunami in northeastern Japan and the damage to the nuclear reactor in Fukushima, many people, including a growing number of artists, have got beyond the agony and speechlessness that set in after the disaster. They are starting to recognize that the catastrophe uncovered many hitherto undisclosed rifts within Japanese society, and [...]

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