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Doug Mack
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oh man, the Walker Art Center is going to be closed on Friday (If you're not from the Twin Cities, this is like MoMA closing in support of a general strike—a very big deal)
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Walker Art Center joins growing list of organizations closing on Jan. 23
"This reflects our institutional values to center our community, support our staff, and to approach our work with care and safety in mind," a representative says.
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/walker-art-center-joins-growing-list-of-organizations-closing-on-jan-23
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gregorg
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I only realized it myself two days after, but esp. considering how it became such a prominent interpretive aspect of his work and ascendant fame, I remain surprised that there wasn't more acknowledgment that Jan. 9 was the 30th anniversary of Felix Gonzalez-Torres' death 🕘🕘
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Michael Lobel
about 1 month ago
"The Generals," 1961-62, by Venezuelan-American artist Marisol
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Michael Lobel
over 1 year ago
Felix Gonzalez-Torres's Untitled (Death by Gun) is a stack of posters listing the more than 460 people killed by firearms during a single week in 1989. Viewers are invited to take a poster as the stack is constantly replenished
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Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
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David Menestres
about 2 months ago
David Wojnarowicz 1988
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Faine Greenwood
3 months ago
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
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Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10/31/yale-lab-reports-mass-killings-in-sudan-calls-for-student-activism/
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Colby Chamberlain
3 months ago
"By Knowles, with Knowles, through Knowles, we can locate models for collaboration and participation that remain tacky to the touch."
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Colby Chamberlain on Alison Knowles
https://www.artforum.com/columns/colby-chamberlain-on-alison-knowles-251842/
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Andrew Russeth
3 months ago
RIP Alison Knowles, the free-spirited and generous conceptual artist, a legend among legends in the Fluxus gang. 1933–2025. Tonight, we eat salad.
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Kim Kelly
3 months ago
Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate
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tru
3 months ago
What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.
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Bill Kristol
3 months ago
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pope-leo-news-agencies-bulwark-against-lies-manipulation-post-truths/
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Manohla Dargis
4 months ago
Ken Jacobs, Visionary Experimental Filmmaker, Is Dead at 92
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...
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Ken Jacobs, Visionary Experimental Filmmaker, Is Dead at 92
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/movies/ken-jacobs-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Dan Hicks
5 months ago
We should all be paying attention here — land acknowledgments banned at Ohio State University
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Marc Elias
5 months ago
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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Scott Horton
5 months ago
Trump's concentration camp builders and operators heavily funded his campaign and now are receiving massive non-compete contracts from DHS. This is definitional corruption.
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Emily Wood
11 months ago
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Forbidden Colors, 1988, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Taylor Lorenz
5 months ago
This is the same eugenic belief system that many still hold re: the ongoing pandemic. They believe people’s deaths from covid are acceptable if they’re medically vulnerable. It’s a disgusting ableist belief system and this rhetoric surrounding children in Gaza is the natural consequence of that
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Femme Noire Lunarre
5 months ago
“how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?” -James A. Baldwin
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Shannon Mattern
over 1 year ago
I learned that Minneapolis Public Schools have a 🌟 Community Ed program that offers before- + after-school care, extra-curricular pgms for kids, and for adults: ESOL, digital literacy, citizenship + career prep, cooking, home remodeling, 🏊♀️ lessons, pgms for seniors + ppl w/disabilities, and more 🎉
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Home - Community Education
Home - Community Education
https://ce.mpschools.org/
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول
5 months ago
Heartbreaking: Palestinian journalists Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Quraiqa were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the tent of Al Jazeera correspondents near Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. May God have mercy on them and grant them paradise.
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Hamilton Nolan
6 months ago
The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA. I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.
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Rolling Stone
6 months ago
Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin (a.k.a. Awdah Hathaleen), who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was shot to death in the West Bank on Monday.
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'No Other Land' Contributor Odeh Hadalin Killed in West Bank Settler Attack
Odeh Hadalin, a contributor to the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' was reportedly killed in an attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/no-other-land-contributor-odeh-hadalin-killed-west-bank-1235395741/
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Michael Jay McClure
6 months ago
“It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one. There were many people who worried for me.” —Andry José Hernandez Romero
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ArtReview
6 months ago
Raymond Saunders, known for his mixed-media assemblage paintings that layer fragments of printed matters with expressionistic brush marks, has died aged 90
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Raymond Saunders, artist and author of ‘Black is a Color’, 1934–2025
‘Pessimism is fatal to artistic development. Perpetual anger deprives movement.’
https://artreview.com/raymond-saunders-artist-and-author-of-black-is-a-color-1934-2025/
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NPR
6 months ago
Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance. By Joe Hernandez,
@danielestrin.bsky.social
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Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say
Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.
https://n.pr/4nU5Pyl
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Taniel
7 months ago
NEW: The FCC under Biden passed rules to make phone calls from prison easier, to help keep people connected to their communities. Trump's FCC has now blocked that change. Phillip Smith, a man incarcerated in North Carolina, reports for Bolts on what this means for people behind bars:
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Priced Out of Phone Calls Home - Bolts
The FCC blocked Biden-era limits on the exorbitant rates and fees charged by prison telecom companies, leaving incarcerated people and their families to fight for state-level reforms.
https://boltsmag.org/north-carolina-prison-phone-calls/
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Andrew Russeth
7 months ago
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of artist Bas Jan Ader setting sail from Cape Cod aboard the pocket cruiser 'Ocean Wave.' Lost at sea, aged 33.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
7 months ago
Every time. But especially this time.
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
The speech shows the moral outrage that powered the abolition movement and made it so threatening to Southern slave holders, but also to anyone willing to tolerate or ignore slavery.
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july-2/
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5-4 Podcast
7 months ago
we told you the Supreme Court sucks
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Michael Lobel
7 months ago
A reminder that in this 1936 editorial cartoon for the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, artist Romare Bearden identified the US Supreme Court as "The Great Barrier to Equality"
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve
7 months ago
Hey did you guys know that part of the reason that there aren't a lot of small grocery stores anymore is because suppliers are allowed to negotiate lower prices for large chains which prices them out? And there is actually a *law against this* that they just *stopped enforcing* under...under...?
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Riley Bruce
7 months ago
“ The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. “ - George Orwell, 1984
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Claudia Stellar, PhD
7 months ago
To help preserve her works, Cindy Sherman is offering to destroy and reprint old photographs. It is the first initiative of its kind in photography and could set a new benchmark for legacy care among artists.
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/16/c...
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Mattias Karystiano
8 months ago
Downtown Los Angeles, 1937
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paddington sarah
8 months ago
the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.
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Michael Lobel
8 months ago
As seen in the window of Page Against the Machine bookstore, Long Beach CA
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Wayne
8 months ago
thinking of this Catherine Opie photograph, "Mariella's Tacos/Uprising, 1992," made when the National Guard occupied Los Angeles. Mariella's is still in the same location 33 years later. (from last year's big exhibit at Regen, review here:
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Golan Levin
8 months ago
For some super arcane deep cuts, I've ported JT Nimoy's "Textension" vector font (1999) and Douglas Hofstadter's "Letter Spirit" gridfonts (c.1987-1996) to p5.js, now available in my archive of p5-single-line-font-resources:
github.com/golanlevin/p...
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Michael Clemens
8 months ago
The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.
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Rubio Reportedly Pauses New International Student Visa Interviews
More than 1.1 million international students were enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/05/27/trump-pauses-new-student-visa-interviews-report-says/
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jeff
8 months ago
Marshall Allen has been on Planet 🌍 101 years today! He arrived in Louisville, Kentucky on this day in 1924. Allen served in WWII, joined the Sun Ra Arkestra in 1958, & has led the band since 1995 🚀✨🪐 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, NYC, 8.14.23
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Matthew Guariglia
8 months ago
In 49 states and at the federal level, police can (unconstitutionally) buy your geolocation data (often harvested from smartphone apps) from advertising data brokers and bypass getting a warrant from a judge for it. Montana has become the first state to close this loophole.
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Montana Becomes First State to Close the Law Enforcement Data Broker Loophole
Montana has done something that many states and the United States Congress have debated but failed to do: it has just enacted the first attempt to close the dreaded, invasive, unconstitutional, but ea...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/montana-becomes-first-state-close-law-enforcement-data-broker-loophole
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Jay
12 months ago
Teach history. On May 13, 1985, over 500 Philly police fired over 10,000 rounds into dozens of Black homes. Then, cops bombed the larger block—using explosives including C4 explosives provided by FBI. Only 2 survived—one of whom was later jailed for 7 yrs on bs charges. No police were charged.
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Marc Garrett
8 months ago
Ana Mendieta - Feathers on a Woman, University of Iowa, 1972 | Source -- SPECTRUM VIVACE |
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gregorg
8 months ago
"The aim of my resignation is to break free of powers that seek to limit knowledge and silence voice. To signal that certain boundary lines have been crossed. To insist that advisory roles must expand knowledge and be more than appendages to predetermined decisions."
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NBC News
9 months ago
More than a hundred libraries on federally recognized tribal lands across the country were notified that their congressionally appropriated grant had been terminated midcycle. Those communities are at risk of losing their local libraries and the history they hold.
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Tribal communities risk losing local libraries and the history they hold amid DOGE cuts
Federally recognized tribes say the Trump administration cut the grant money they use to sustain the local libraries that serve as anchors in their most rural communities.
https://nbcnews.to/42RpDd6
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Jen Mercieca
9 months ago
John Brown was a real one. Born OTD 1800:
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John Brown (abolitionist) - Wikipedia
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