Our battle to restore a statement to a Manchester exhibition was really about what can and can’t be said in cultural spacesOn Wednesday, protesters in Manchester reclaimed one of the city’s main cultural institutions. Despite the rain, pro-Palestine ac…
Limber Up! It’s Cartooning Workout Time!
The Center for Cartoon Studies (previously, previously, previously) is offering a free, self-directed One-Week Cartooning Workout eCourse. Just remember: “The awful comic you make is always going to be better than the perfect comic you never make.”–In…
Alleged Italian drugs kingpin linked to stolen Van Goghs arrested in Dubai
Raffaele Imperiale, suspected of buying Van Gogh paintings on black market, considered one of Italy’s most dangerous fugitives One of Italy’s most wanted men, an alleged top drug trafficker suspected of having bought two stolen Van Gogh paintings on th…
Anne Bean: ‘People said Yoko Ono ruined the Beatles. I think the Beatles ruined her’
The performance artist on her new 10-hour work, rethinking her distance from feminism, and why she told Malcolm McLaren her avant garde covers band was ‘unmanageable’Anne Bean has been revisiting her past. On 21 August the pioneering performance artist…
The Bittersweet Art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres
“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres – National Portrait Gallery video: “In this ‘portrait’ of his deceased partner, Ross Laycock, Gonzalez-Torres created a spill of candies that approximated Ross’s weight (175 lbs.) when he w…
Housekeeping
cake house by masha_k_sh (cc by-nc-nd)Oh, look, the new Mefi newsletter has a name! And a second edition! Whee! Also, the latest Metatalktail Hour asks members to tell the least plausible story about yourself, and it’s so, so great. Also, also, don’t f…
Sweet Art, I Really Love You!
Yale Art Gallery – Heart by m01229 (cc by)Weird Science theme week has ended (see all the excellent weird science posts here!), and for the second theme of our August fundraising month, Sweet Art week has begun! Please help us make a spectacle of ourse…
‘We always see sex from the man’s view’: Cammie Toloui, the peep show performer who peeped back
Turning her camera on her customers, the sex worker and photojournalist exposed the male gaze to itself – and opened up a world of shame and desire“As a rebellious preteen, I sat down and made a list of my life goals,” writes Cammie Toloui in her phot…
Box of tricks: inside the home of Patrizia Moroso
Bright hues abound in the stunning Udine hideaway of the Italian designer.An Italian oasis to call home is on a lot of people’s wishlists. Few, however, would think to look for it in Udine, the northeastern city in the lesser-known Friuli-Venezia Giuli…
The Gospel of Philip K. Dick & thepostarchive
The Gospel of Phillip K. Dick from thepostarchive, the latter of which is an incredible and ongoing labor of love compiled by a self described ”NB PoC trying archivist collecting between and through institutions.” Wherein you can find for now, among s…