On February 15th, 2010, Yosi Sergant asked our friend iO to participate in Manifest Equality, a group show designed to bring awareness and policy change to laws affecting the LGBT community in America. On February 16th iO sent out a call to everyone she knew that was part of that community, asking to photograph them [...]
Category Archives: Politics
Harry Truman vs. Now
February 11, 2010 – 10:36 am
Harry Truman was a different kind of President than we’re used to these days. He probably made as many important decisions as any other President. But a better measure of his greatness may be what he did after he left the White House.
As president, he had paid for all his own travel expenses and food. [...]
We Manifest
February 5, 2010 – 2:37 pm
Detail of a collage by participating artist Derek Gores
Operating on a template similar to their wildly successful grass roots get-out-the-vote campaign during the run up to the ‘08 election, ManifestEquality is a progressive public art project aimed at raising awareness about the discrepancy in social rights for the LGBT community in America. A call for [...]
Waiting for Godot a la Paul Chan
February 1, 2010 – 12:26 pm
Innovative artist and activist Paul Chan will give an “illustrated lecture,” recounting his sensation-spawning performances of Beckett’s masterpiece in a beleaguered New Orleans during 2007, at Redcat Theatre at The Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles tonight.
Earthquake in Haiti
January 13, 2010 – 10:32 am
Tens of thousands are feared dead after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, with its epicenter just outside Port-au-Prince, rocked Haiti last night. Anyone interested in donating money to the relief effort might look into Partners in Health, a smaller organization based primarily in Haiti that has been highly recommended by Peter Hallward, author of the excellent [...]
Insp.
January 5, 2010 – 9:00 am
The proliferation of image blogs powered by the tumblr platform raises the interesting question of how the internet as a structured society of individuals can collectively produce a homeopathic response to itself. The relationship between the particular nature of the way information is disseminated online and our diminishing attention spans has become frequently remarked upon [...]
The David Simon Vice Interview
December 23, 2009 – 10:42 pm
A great interview with a man who consistently gives great interviews, in a publication, which, with all the fondest adolescent memory, does not. One glaring point of note: How does a man, a fiercely intelligent man, whose whole oeuvre turns on his innate documentarian’s rage at the destruction wrought on inner city America by the vicissitudes [...]
Behind Closed Doors at the Climate Summit
December 22, 2009 – 8:57 pm
The Guardian website today posted a must-read article by the climate-change activist and journalist Mark Lynas on the behind the scenes wrangling over the climate deal, or lack thereof, in Copenhagen – How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room. Highly recommended.
Marty Machado: Life and Work on a Container Ship
December 17, 2009 – 12:46 pm
Here’s a little snippet of video from seafaring artist Marty Machado’s cabin aboard the APL Japan, where he’s been serving as a merchant marine under the flag of SUP, the Sailors Union of the Pacific. For more details, check out his new blog on Fecal Face. He had us at, “as the coastal silt drops, [...]
