Op-eds

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  Op-Ed

  Miley, Eric and Me: Basel’s Dazzle and the Dark Death Around Us

  December 18, 2014 - 

  The artist Mel Chin speaks to the uncanny experience of witnessing a VIP-only Miley Cyrus performance at Art Basel – Miami Beach as the Eric Garner grand jury decision provoked street protests across the nation.  More

  By Mel Chin

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  Op-Ed

  Teddy Cruz to Ted Cruz:
  Tear Down That Wall

  November 3, 2014 - 

  In an open letter, the renowned urbanist urges the Republican senator to embrace immigration reform—and the creative intelligence of immigrant communities.  More

  By Teddy Cruz

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  Op-Ed

  Jarvis Cocker: Do I Really Have to March?

  September 18, 2014 - 

  As climate activists prepare for the People’s Climate March, the singer/songwriter and journalist Jarvis Cocker has some advice: take to the streets, but rather than march, why not dance?  More

  By Jarvis Cocker

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  Black Radical Brooklyn

  Freed But Not Free

  September 17, 2014 - 

  As part of Creative Time’s exhibition “Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn,” a collaboration with Weeksville Heritage Center, Creative Time Reports is featuring essays related to the history of African-American struggles for self-determination in Brooklyn. Here, the writer Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts meditates on the limits to freedom imposed by a legacy of institutionalized racism.  More

  By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

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  Op-Ed

  Spatial Justice: Rasquachification, Race and the City

  September 15, 2014 - 

  Intervening in discussions about gentrification and placemaking, cultural activist Roberto Bedoya champions the creative resilience found in communities of color—and exemplified by the Chicano practice of Rasquachification—to suggest “placekeeping” as a strategy for advancing racial justice goals.  More

  By Roberto Bedoya