Nathaniel Gillette has been missing from the Portage Park area since Wed, Feb 4, around 7:30pm. If you or someone you know lives on the northwest side of #Chicago, please take a moment to check your cameras between Feb 4, 8:50pm and Feb 5, 6:45pm. www.chicagopolice.org/news/missing...

Nathaniel Gillette, 30, missing in Chicago since Feb 4. I don’t know Nathaniel, but related to a friend of a friend. If anyone has any info: www.chicagopolice.org/news/missing...

Out today: a major new essay by former Artforum editor David Velasco, fired over a pro-Palestine open letter, surveying 2 years of turmoil in the art world, which was "practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion" -- except Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/how...

Shameful especially as AAPI organizations are already severely underfunded.

Encouraged to read this statement and very proud to see Joan Mitchell Foundation stand alongside such a strong group of signatories.

"Powerlessness is an alibi. Hopelessness too. I want to ask, what specifically are you going to do? What’s your 'I am Spartacus' move to protect the more vulnerable?" writes Kaveh Akbar.

Ta-Nehisi Coates in Seattle about the Democratic Party in this moment: “If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?”

Nobody who's saying "Haha you idiots should have voted for Kamala to protect the Palestinians" has ever supported the Palestinians. These are all the same people who spent last year telling everyone to shut up about Gaza and stop opposing an active genocide. They can get fucked.

Maybe watching a live and online genocide was so overwhelming I don’t feel that overwhelmed right now. The storm blowing over Gaza has simply turned around and we Americans are feeling the blowback. Racism, colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and transphobia are all part of the same storm system.

Proud to be a part of the Joan Mitchell Foundation joining our peers in contributing to this fund. Application opens January 20: www.getty.edu/news/foundat...

I was asked to contribute to @themorningnews.bsky.social The Year That Was and Wasn’t (along with a bunch of incredible people) here's my contribution, follow the link to read the rest themorningnews.org/article/2024-t…

This sums it up. #JudnickMayard judnickjargon.substack.com/p/i-see-i-said

“People who did and said nothing to stop the slaughter have much to say about how you must set your emotions aside and do the right thing.” — #BilalBaydoun substack.com/inbox/post/1...

From #MonaEltahawy — “On grief a year into genocide: A Lebanese boy on Instagram explaining how to make mujadara felled me on Sunday morning. He was not hurt. It was not a video that came with a graphic content warning. He was beautiful in his enthusiasm for cooking.”

Those involved in arts philanthropy need to sharpen their grantmaking practices to advance racial justice.

Chicago lost one of its greats yesterday. I can't even properly articulate how much this man contributed to the city and its art community. Gratitude alone doesn't even cover it. #JasonPickleman #seeartinchicago 👁️✨✨👁️

The New York media establishment is embarrassing and in decline.

“The more American we become, the more we may affirm this country's settler colonialism with our silence about how we can be citizens and colonizers at the same time. The condition of our belonging, our inclusion, is our silence.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen, January 29, 2024, @thenation.com

“Lose the desire to continually ask institutions dedicated to upholding colonial structures to change. Instead, cultivate whatever practices are necessary to render them irrelevant.” — @blkchimera.bsky.social

—Mexico City, February 7, 2024

Today’s feel good moment.

"Civility is the oppressor’s way of policing our behavior. It keeps us docile in the shackles of structures that were never built for us. الحضارية هي طريقة الظالم لضبط سلوكنا وجعلنا مكبلين في أغلال هياكل بعمرها لم تكن مبنية لأمثالنا. " — Mariam Masud via Fikra Magazine

"History was never meant to be about the past. It is not about forgiveness, oblivion, nor peace." Sahar Delijani on the legacies of the Arab Spring:

My citizen debut #HandsOffYemen

Hundreds of cultural figures have signed a petition calling to boycott German cultural institutions in response to the nation’s stifling of Pro-Palestine speech.

From tonight’s emergency protest for Yemen via The People’s Forum— “Just hours after the US government started bombing Yemen, anti-war protestors took to the streets in Times Square to say NO MORE! We say NO to the U.S. bombing of Yemen, and demand the U.S. OUT of the Middle East!”

“As Arabs, we’re asking fundamental questions about our place in the world. We’re coming to understand that our disposability is not a failure of the world order; it’s one of its integral functions.” Abdelrahman ElGendy, @postopinions.bsky.social: wapo.st/48yatcz

We are a garbage country with garbage people whose citizens are completely okay with their money and social services going to genocidical freaks. Our choices are a candidate who will either kill us here or kill us overseas. “I don’t care who wins the US presidential election” by Andrew Mitrovica:

‘The bombs are still falling. My heart breaks every day’: novelists Sally Rooney and Isabella Hammad on the Israel-Palestine conflict:

I would be smarter if Arabic was my first language.

Volunteer to help build a database tracking and debunking fabrications by the Israeli state during its genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza since 7 October 2023: hasbaratracker.com/volunteer/

Kay Gabriel on culture workers’ responsibility to stop the war on Gaza: “Cultural institutions—media, universities, museums, literary centers—form one element of the power structure that keeps the US government solidly in support of Israel’s massacres.” @thenation.com