Cultural figures find perils to speaking out and staying silent about Mideast crisis wclk.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wclk.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
One of what seems like only a handful of working photography critics today, Vince Aletti is also a prolific collector of print ephemera, much of it archived within a single massive filing cabinet in his longtime East Village apartment. Below, Aletti talks about his new photobook, The Drawer, which shuffles this matter into alluring, Warburgian juxtapositions of high and low, iconic and unknown. Mapped out over the course of a single afternoon, the book is a meditation on how images shape desire, a remedy to the cold calculations of the algorithm, and the wordless memoir of a great and grateful
Herbert Muschamp on Eureka—Mona Helga - Artforum International artforum.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artforum.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
July 13–August 13, 2021
Beginning in the 1950s, a group of young Black men, faced with the prospect of toiling in Florida’s citrus groves, instead learned to paint the windswept palms, motley waters, and singular radiance of the Sunshine State. Unable to show in the South’s segregated galleries, these artists, soon joined by one woman, peddled their work door-to-door or from their cars on the then-new interstate roads, themselves shaped by systemic racism. Today more than two hundred thousand landscapes are credited to this informal school of self-taught painters, who forged a tradition of American regionalism that, ubiquitous but long underrecognized, helped define Florida’s image in the twentieth century.
New free feminist streaming service, Another Screen spotlights Palestinian films made by women this last month, with donations going towards relief in Gaza.