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Sarah Schulman Discusses Her Massive ACT UP Tome ‘Let the Record Show,’ Coming This May Book design by No Ideas; portrait by Drew Stevens It’s fascinating to watch how traumatic and fraught events get historicized, isn’t it? Think the Holocaust. Think the Vietnam War. And think the U.S. 1980s and ’90s AIDS crisis and the furious activism that rose up to meet it. Only in the past decade have we started seeing major nonfiction works of film or publishing take on that seismic era (which, we should point out, is not over). First, we had David France’s Oscar-nominated 2012 documentary ....
Mar 12, 2021 Dr. Chris Balaschak, associate professor of Visual Arts, recently had his book, “The Image of Environmental Harm in American Social Documentary Photography” published by Routledge. In it, he explores new perspectives on the history of American social documentary photography, and how politically-engaged photography can serve as models for the representation of impending environmental injustices. “The project started in 2013 when I was on a research trip to the Museum of Modern Art archives in New York, and was looking at photography, prints, and books, made in response to the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant,” he said. “I was interested in how artists were using photography as a means of protest, as a way of showing our proximity to potentially catastrophic environmental change, and were choosing photography because it is an inherently reproducible and circulatable medium.” ....
Don t miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BENNINGTON â On Friday, April 2, Bennington Museum will reopen after a three-month winter hiatus. Spring hours of operation will be Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The museum library will be open to visitors, free of charge, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Mondays. I am very excited about the opening of the Bennington Museum 2021 season, interim director David Pilachowski said in a release. We have been hard at work preparing an outstanding series of exhibits and programs that you will not want to miss. The curatorial staff is kicking the season off in high gear with a full slate of new and ambitious exhibitions in addition to updates to the galleries featuring pieces from the museum s permanent collection. ....