MAKE ART DO CRIME
Well, what's a girl s'posed to think??
MAKE ART DO CRIME
Well, what's a girl s'posed to think??
it’s 2025
can we start
finally
boycotting
UbuWeb Founded 1996 February 1, 2025 A year ago, we decided to shutter UbuWeb. Not really shutter it, per se, but instead to consider it complete. After nearly 30 years, it felt right. But now, with the political changes in America and elsewhere around the world, we have decided to restart our archiving and regrow Ubu. In a moment when our collective memory is being systematically eradicated, archiving reemerges as a strong form of resistance, a way of preserving crucial, subversive, and marginalized forms of expression. We encourage you to do the same. All rivers lead to the same ocean: find your form of resistance, no matter how small, and go hard. It's now or never. Together we can prevent the annihilation of the memory of the world.
What Ubuweb said.
05.02.2025 21:38 — 👍 167 🔁 45 💬 1 📌 3nostalgia is a tool for promoting fascism
30.01.2025 19:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0!["Sorry, I could barely get through Kissick’s orgy of grievances. I lived through the years he elegizes, saw some great art and even more middling art. Anyone reading his piece with a gimlet eye will notice that it was speculation, not ‘politics,’ that sucked the air out of the room. I do agree with him on one point: the art world is boring right now. But you’re not going to save it by being boring yourself. And you’re definitely not going to get art that ‘tears open [your] consciousness’ through nostalgia for Hans Ulrich Obrist. Go outside, look around. Stop being sad because markets and institutions aren’t pandering to you. Go where the energy is. Go make some real friends. Break a magazine. Go to a protest. Free Palestine.
David Velasco
New York City”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x7xmggpwlgtotuxi5as5igwy/bafkreihrenoebwsv5fnp2z63jnlvgvdmeoswiwbonxuwywtv4u2bzqhexq)
"Sorry, I could barely get through Kissick’s orgy of grievances. I lived through the years he elegizes, saw some great art and even more middling art. Anyone reading his piece with a gimlet eye will notice that it was speculation, not ‘politics,’ that sucked the air out of the room. I do agree with him on one point: the art world is boring right now. But you’re not going to save it by being boring yourself. And you’re definitely not going to get art that ‘tears open [your] consciousness’ through nostalgia for Hans Ulrich Obrist. Go outside, look around. Stop being sad because markets and institutions aren’t pandering to you. Go where the energy is. Go make some real friends. Break a magazine. Go to a protest. Free Palestine. David Velasco New York City”
Love this letter from David Velasco (the former Artforum editor fired for publishing an open letter against the carnage in Gaza) responding to that Harper’s piece lamenting the contamination of contemporary art by politics.
30.01.2025 02:14 — 👍 616 🔁 139 💬 8 📌 6
I’ll be here as the waters rise to meet me @mckenziewark.bsky.social icon
29.01.2025 22:52 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
Lara dans le parc des Buttes-Chaumont
29.01.2025 13:36 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0my version of german romanticism is i compulsively forget everything i know about everyday life so that i can keep asking my friends what a budget is, a snack, a bedroom, sex only to find out that they too have completely forgotten
05.07.2023 12:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I love Paris today
28.01.2025 15:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lara fait des recherches
28.01.2025 15:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0this is how ig feels lately
27.01.2025 08:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0