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Editors Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Julie Mehretu at the Whitney to Alteronce Gumby in Two Boroughs

Editors Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Julie Mehretu at the Whitney to Alteronce Gumby in Two Boroughs
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10 artists who shed light on mass incarceration

Rachel Zarrow March 17, 2021Updated: March 18, 2021, 1:07 pm An adaption of artist jackie sumell’s “Solitary Gardens” at UC Santa Cruz. The garden plots are meant to represent a solitary confinement cell, taking up the same 6-by-9-foot space. The plants, which are selected remotely by an incarcerated person in solitary confinement, only grow in the spaces where humans would usually be able to walk in the cell. Photo: R.R. Jones In the 2017 book “How To Do Politics With Art,” Lilian Mathieu describes how the arts play an important role in protest. “It provides material and symbolic resources,” the French sociologist writes. Art “contributes to movement framing, mobilizes constituencies, sensitizes the broader public, and produces social change by renewing cultural traditions.”

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Exhibits convey incarcerated artists spirit: No matter what I did there s beauty inside me

Rachel Zarrow March 17, 2021Updated: March 18, 2021, 12:12 pm “If The Leader Only Knew,” by Hank Willis Thomas, part of the exhibit “Barring Freedom” at the San Jose Museum of Art in San Jose. The exhibit focuses on pieces by 20 artists that makes viewers examine how they see and understand established notions of policing, incarceration, and surveillance. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle Rahsaan Thomas is a busy man. A writer, community organizer and co-host of “Ear Hustle,” a Pulitzer Prize- and Peabody Award-nominated podcast, he’s also the co-founder of Prison Renaissance, an organization that uses the arts to “end cycles of incarceration” and create connections between the general public and incarcerated people.

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What an Abolitionist Exhibition Looks Like in a Carceral World

Featured in What an Abolitionist Exhibition Looks Like in a Carceral World At MoMA PS1, New York, Nicole R. Fleetwood curates a show that considers the artistic output of those irrevocably shaped by the conditions of the prison industrial complex ‘Mass incarceration’, a phrase that has gained much purchase in the last two decades, features prominently in the title of ‘Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration’, an exhibition at New York’s MoMA PS1 and a book published by Harvard University Press. Both are the culmination of more than ten years of effort by Nicole R. Fleetwood, Professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University. Describing a phenomenon that began in the late 1960s – in which the prisons system ballooned exponentially – the term ‘mass incarceration’ is sometimes poorly interpreted, taken to mean that the problem is only one of scale or degree, not of kind. Today, many are convinced that there are too many

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Families of a jailed Saudi activist and a princess call on Biden to get tough with MBS over human rights abuses which Trump ignored

MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images/Reuters Detained Saudi rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul (L) and detained Saudi author and advocate Princess Basmah bint Saud (R.) Families of activists detained by Saudi Arabia have called on President-elect Joe Biden to hold Mohammed bin Salman to account over human rights abuses. On Wednesday, a terrorism court in Riyadh said it would seek 20 years in prison, the maximum sentence, for Loujain al-Hathloul, an activist accused of spying and sedition. “We’ve seen during Biden’s campaign that the main difference in his discourse was regarding human rights,” Loujain’s sister, Lina, told Insider. “I can only hope that this will be the case.”

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