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For Disturbing the View, his performance at the Whitney last summer, the artist Dave McKenzie washed some of the museum’s floor-to-ceiling plate glass windows twice weekly in the afternoon. ....
In May 2018, as Trump’s family separation policy became a major scandal, former Obama speechwriter and “Pod Save America” host Jon Favreau tweeted a photo of two migrant girls sleeping on the floor of a cage. “Look at these pictures. This is happening right now, and the only debate that matters is how we force our government to get these kids back to their families as fast as humanly possible.” As a number of his replies pointed out, the photos were actually from 2014, when his boss was still President. As with Biden’s response to the recent assault on Haitians, Favreau was fixated on the image. ....
For all the historical acclaim a journalist may have gained by being their newspaper’s first Black employee or by broadcasting brutality, that praise does little for the person trying to pay their rent. It does not even offer job security. Despite his many achievements, Lomax lost more than one job. But Lomax’s life is not only a reminder of the stark difficulties of media and of the protections writers deserve. ....
Jun. 11—When people think of barbershops, they probably think of getting a haircut. But for independent filmmaker Kyle Schickner, these shops are places to have conversations about race. "We have to start to be able to talk about it openly, without people getting nervous or getting canceled," Schickner said. His film, called "A White Man Walks Into a Barbershop" will have its world premiere at . ....
Email Address The following is an excerpt from Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts, a new anthology from Paper Monument, n+1’s contemporary art imprint. The book is available in our store. My dad seated on his mother’s lap, with his father and two older sisters, at their home in Shanghai, ca. 1936. The family portrait was taken with one of the many Leica cameras my grandfather, an amateur photographer, had acquired while traveling.
My dad and his older sister Margaret fleeing Shanghai on foot during the Sino-Japanese War, ca. 1944.
Dear H, It would be an understatement to say that our time together in quarantine is a gift. You have, in many ways, saved me from self-destruction during this objectively stressful time. Yet this abeyance of normalcy is marked by the trauma of a global pandemic, national protests against systemic racism and police brutality, extreme fire and weather caused by climate change, the din of the 24/7 elec ....