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Rahim Fortune paints with colour for his latest exhibition at CPW, Kingston - 1854 Photography The Austin-born artist engages with the Texas African-American Photography Archive to reveal a compelling portrait of kinship in the American South

The Austin-born artist engages with the Texas African-American Photography Archive to reveal a compelling portrait of kinship in the American South 1854.photo/46B9MA7

hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok

Heather Agyepong: On embodiment and the self Podcast Episode · The Photo Ethics Podcast · 20/08/2025 · 38m

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You can't call yourself "a prize for LGBTQ+ literature" and longlist a self-proclaimed terf. Anyone can give any prize to anyone they like, of course. But don't pretend you're a prize for my community when you're platforming someone who's actively fighting against it.

Arles 2025: staging radicality within safe limits? Is the art world willing to take real political risks, or does it perform radicality within safe limits? What to make of aesthetic gestures of dissent without institutional accountability and without ...

“Our complicity in the West and in our industry is marked by the silence of our institutions, and the gatekeepers at their helms, prioritising corporate sponsorship above moral clarity.”
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How Artists Are Responding to the Horrors of the Magdalene Laundries For decades, Irish institutions concealed women’s suffering through silence. Now, contemporary artists are confronting these traumatic histories to foster awareness and healing

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“Where a full stop bangs down the hard end, the bookend to a sentence, to a thought, the dash is liquid. It flows two ways, both ways. Meaning can move against the current, eddy back up the sentence or flow down.” Robert Macfarlane on the em dash.

Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

“If discontinued, many artists would be thrust back into the cycle of precarious employment, underemployment, or forced reliance on social welfare systems.”

New short story, The Lake by Juliana Adelman as part of our online fiction series.

"The day of the first accident wasn’t especially hot or sunny, I remember. We were having a barbecue in the car park for my son’s eighteenth birthday."

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‘…film and photography as mediums of memory, repetition and resistance.’ Also a sound piece accessed via a trap door. I’m keen to hear it and to see the installation images.

Archivo Papers Vol. 5: interesting perspectives on the archive and its role in contemporary visual practice.

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George Gibney facing 79 charges relating to alleged sexual abuse of four girls George Gibney: Ex-Irish Olympic swim coach is to appear in court in US next week following arrest

Today is a good day to reflect on the incredible work @younghorgan.bsky.social, @secondcaptains.bsky.social, and BBC Sounds undertook for and around the Where Is George Gibney? podcast.

It remains a brilliant, thorough, hugely empathic and influential piece of journalism.

Want to hear something totally out of this world?

How about the echolocation calls of lesser horseshoes – Ireland's rarest + smallest bat – as they head out from their roost at dusk to hunt midges and other insects over an Atlantic rainforest?

Volume up!

Very relatable observations on autistic burnout and the desire for solitude.

If you’re rioting or even just protesting because a foreigner has been accused of rape, but you never rioted or protested when a white Irish bloke was accused of rape, you are not a defender of women and are - quite literally - just a racist

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”

Doechii at the #BETAwards

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

" I also believe that those of us who are older, whiter, safer from the threats of state violence do not have the moral ground to lecture the younger, browner and blacker, more directly impacted demographic on what they should and should not do." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

We’re all just out here trying to be brave like Tiki 😭

Misan Harriman Podcast Episode · Talk Art · S25 E2 · 1h 4m

“I don’t know if the trustees of the British Museum recognize that so much of that space feels like a crime scene to so many cultures…”

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„It is June. I am tired of being brave.“

Anne Sexton

A Director Walks into a Gallery: The Rise of Auteur Art A growing number of filmmakers are turning their hand to exhibitions of visual art. What could go wrong?

From Yorgos Lanthimos to David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch to Harmony Korine, a growing number of filmmakers are turning their hand to exhibitions of visual art. What could go wrong? artreview.com/the-rise-of-...

Harvard Relinquishes Photographs of Enslaved People in Historic Settlement Tamara Lanier, who sued the school in 2019 over daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors held in its museum, called the outcome “a turning point in American history.”

Ending a six-year battle that stirred ethical and legal debates about the ownership of photographs taken under duress, Harvard University has surrendered its claim to 15 daguerreotypes at the center of a lawsuit brought by Tamara Lanier, a descendant of enslaved individuals.

Assessment season 2025 completed. 👋

This week’s reading list.

A running theme for the evening I think!

“With all that’s going on in your country right now, how are you still smiling”?
“I have a knife between my teeth”.
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“If students are using Chat GPT to write fiction, they have literally and figuratively lost the plot.”
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