Siddhartha Mitter

It’s absurd

The Whitney Biennial Swaps Identity Politics for Infrastructural Interventions. The Verdict: All Systems Go. With memorable works by Andrea Fraser, Emilie L. Gossiaux, David L. Johnson, Carmen de Monteflores, and Agosto Machado, this edition is all systems go

It's @keys-wallet-phone.bsky.social scooping everyone with the advance look at the Whitney Biennial

www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

A Chimney in Search of a Home Lands 3,000 Miles Away

Tremendous profile of Kelly Akashi, who brings work based on the house she lost in the Altadena fire to the Whitney Biennial, impeccably reported over a year by Travis Diehl.

A story of destruction and making.

"It's not a tombstone. It's a vitrified ghost."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/a...

Trump’s epic gamble in the Middle East The US president’s goal of regime change augurs immense regional chaos

FT editorial/analysis

www.ft.com/content/e714...

The grotesque.

The grotesque.

Marwan Bishara on Al Jazeera is in rare form at least. Just called Netanyahu a nudnik.

Sending all good energies amid the mayhem.

Blast from the past.

oh no yikes

The over/under prediction markets were waiting

Mamdani Is Naming New York’s Next Culture Czar

Continuing the pattern of: Amid Apocalyptic Federal News, Some Very Good News in New York City:

Diya Vij is our new cultural affairs commissioner.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/a...

So interesting. I remember first hanging around St. Marks in the mid-1980s and wondering about the Afghan store.

The grotesque.

Israel is also bombing Lebanon

In 2026 Iranian civilians have been bombed by the US, bombed by Israel and massacred by their own government.

Green win shows progressive voters are now voting against Labour as well as Reform Gorton and Denton byelection shatters Labour strategy of neglecting its core base while focusing on Reform defectors

Indeed

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hannah Spencer: the Green MP speaking to everyday people’s frustrations Winner of Gorton and Denton byelection was driven into politics by growing gap between super-rich and the ‘rest of us’

Signs of life

The technocrats, centrists and fascists all got trounced by an *actual* white working class candidate

Left school at 16, became a plumber. Now a Green MP at 34

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Meanwhile in crimes against ecosystems and Indigenous communities

“Absurdly, to make up for felling an estimated 1 million trees on the island, the government has approved compensatory afforestation faraway on the mainland, in Haryana.”

Now they just need to stop receiving ICE third-country deportation flights and they’ll be getting somewhere

A sublime tour it would be.

literally back to low v high on the hog

bhindi
dharosh
quiabo

#okrapolitan

yes ooooo

quiabo (Brasil)

dharosh (Bengali)

They should let SA take over as they've been offering

what the fkkkkk

Disagree with @jamellebouie.net in this instance. The comparison with Hungary or Turkey might not be good but the much better comparison is India -- diverse, decentralised, with strong local and regional press traditions in many languages, and still being suffocated by state+billionaire fascists.

yes please!