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The music of Cameron Lew, in the persona of Ginger Root, makes us confront a fundamental truth: the familiar, after the passage of time, becomes the exotic
Read MoreTed Olson continues bringing important location recordings of early American music back to light.
Read More‘Lived experience’ doesn’t automatically confer moral or political insight, argues social critic Ben Burgis, but if we can make others laugh at that assumption we might be getting somewhere.
Read MoreNot only do Lǐ Zǐqī’s videos offer us the satisfaction of seeing material labor, but they also suggest the impossibility — in the modern world — of genuinely recreating the work of the past.
Read MoreJaun Cirerol has been accused of idealizing desperation. He disagrees. “I am well-anchored,” he responds.
Read MoreFor all of the book’s fascinating revelations, The Lost Southern Chefs leaves the reader with a number of unanswered questions.
Read MoreIn its ninth album, YMCK shows that it is becoming self-aware. They are no longer just avatars we are to identify with, but also (satirically) the corporate entity behind them, a corporation preoccupied, like all others, with innovation.
Read MoreWhat do the words of an imprisoned Uyghur dissident tell us about the desperate plight of China’s ethnic minorities today?
Read MoreWe need to realize how important class is in order to understand how inequality can rise as Confederate monuments fall.
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Cultural Commentary: Goodbye Columbus — Mexico City’s “La Joven de Amajac” and “Tlalli” Sculptures
Mexico City settles on Columbus’ replacement, but finds that removal and substitution is agonizing in society which hasn’t changed all that much.
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