Art: What’s the Use? A Symposium
Friday 14 January, 2011. 11am-6pm Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery, London (£15/£10 conc.)
How subversive really is the social uselessness of art? Could art play a more directly functional role in culture? Dean Kenning and Gavin Grindon challenge the idea that art should be allowed to take critical positions safe from any real intervention. Participants include Artur Zmijewski, Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat), James Marriott & Jane Trowell (PLATFORM), John Roberts, Stephen Wright, Marina Vishmidt, Peter Osborne and Gail Day.
The Autumn of the HegemonLouis Proyect
This was the year that the war in Afghanistan became the longest in American history. It was also a year in which a jobless recovery was threatening to spiral out of control, turning into a double-dip recession. For those with even the most underdeveloped capacity for making historical analogies, it should be rather obvious that the U.S. is facing the same kind of intractable contradictions that brought down the USSR.
Warhol Foundation Threatens to End Financing of Smithsonian Exhibitions
The Andy Warhol Foundation is threatening to stop its financing of Smithsonian Institution exhibitions if the institution does not restore a work of art that was removed from an exhibition after it drew attacks by the head of the Catholic League and some Republican members of Congress. The Warhol Foundation gave $100,000 to the Smithsonian for the exhibition, “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,”
at the National Portrait Gallery, from which the work was removed.
US Justice Department Prepares Expansion of "Anti-Terrorism" Law Targeting ActivistsMichael Deutsch
City University of New York Rally Against Tuition Increases Barbara Bowen
I’m writing to let you know that a student coalition at CUNY has organized a rally against tuition increases, to take place this Tuesday, December 14, at 5:00 p.m., in front of Governor-Elect Andrew Cuomo’s office: 120 Broadway in Lower Manhattan.
University of Puerto Rico Students Resume Strikes
Rossana Rodriguez
Students from six campuses in the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) system have held a series of 48-hour strikes in the last week to oppose the imposition of an $800 fee that is scheduled to take effect at the beginning of the January 2011 semester. Students at the Río Piedras campus were among of the first to go out after they held a December 1 mass assembly and voted by an overwhelming majority to strike if the administration does not rescind the new fee by December 14. The chancellor of the Río Piedras campus used every means possible to try to stop the students from gathering, including the canceling academic recess, freezing the bank account of the student council so that it couldn't pay for the sound system, and denying students the use of a space for their meeting. But UPR students are already used to doing things the hard way, so the night before, they raised funds by approaching cars stopped at traffic lights so they could rent a sound system for the outdoor meeting that lasted five hours under the harsh rays of a sunny day at the university's athletic track.
Cablegate: Operation Avenge Assange BeginsTech Herald
Josh Fox and His Documentary "Gasland"
What: Josh Fox will be in Brooklyn to present his documentary GASLAND When: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 7:00 PM Where: IndieScreen 285 Kent Avenue (at S 2nd Street in Williamsburg) Brooklyn, NY 11211
David Wojnarowicz Video Censorship Protest NYC, Dec. 9, 2010
A David Wojnarowicz video was yanked last week from a show at the National Portrait Gallery. Please join us to take collective action about this outrage - bring your anger and ideas and energy. We're working on plans for a street protest in NYC and lots more - see you Thursday!
Meeting - Thursday Dec. 9, 6:30 pm
Location: P.P.O.W GALLERY 511 W 25th St., Suite 301 between 10th and 11th Ave. New York, NY Gallery phone: (212) 647-1044
STOP THE CENSORSHIP!
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