September 9, 2021 • View in browser
Good morning. 🌧️ Today, the largest confederate monument in the South comes down, Strike MoMA is launching phase 2, and the visual culture of credibility.
— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief
Who Owns the Earth?
This group show proposes fresh paradigms of land ownership and art making in contrast to the rugged individualism of much early Land Art. | Louis Bury
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WHAT'S HAPPENING
The contentious statue of Robert E. Lee on Richmond's Monument Avenue no longer stands. (via Flickr)
Richmond's Robert E. Lee statue finally comes down. Its reclamation and transformation last year marked a historic moment in the nation’s reckoning with racial violence.
Announcing it’s “Phase 2” of protests,Strike MoMA will kick off a week of activities and organizing leading up to a city-wide action on September 17.
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Portfolios and prints by the iconic Pop artist take over the historic Gramercy Park club in New York City. Admission is free. Learn more.
What Does It Mean to Exhibit Nature?
Like a creeping scent, Sean Raspet’s exhibition works its way through the viewer’s psyche almost imperceptibly. | Caroline Ellen Liou
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It’s not just what people say online, however, that matters. How they present themselves contributes to what I call a visual culture of credibility. | Charlotte Kent
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Patrick Nathan suggests that capitalism benefits when human relationships are reduced to two-dimensional representations. | Melissa Holbrook Pierson
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Mark Dery writes: “In its early years, eBay’s hit-or-miss search engine was conducive to close encounters of the absurd kind.” Revisit some of platform's strangest listings and how a French journalist came to own the 1951 address book of Surrealist photographer and painter Dora Maar.
Mourning eBay’s Days as the Internet’s Kitschiest, Most Surreal Mall
The passing of the old eBay is the last nail in the cyberflâneur’s coffin. | Mark Dery
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