Creative Time Reports Articles Featured in The Guardian, Aperture, Whitewall, Artinfo

June 4th, 2013

It has been a blockbuster week for Creative Time Reports, with three pieces picked up by publications including The Guardian, Aperture, Whitewall and Artinfo. As Bradley Manning goes on trial for passing classified information to WikiLeaks, a heartfelt op-ed by illustrator and writer Molly Crabapple argues that the soldier only betrayed his institution out of loyalty to humanity. The piece was picked up by The Guardian and featured in their “Comment is Free” section. Our arresting photo-essay, featuring images from the vibrant Mali-based studio photographer Adama Kouyaté, evokes a cultural moment before Mali made headlines as a country besieged by insurgents, at war, and suffering from ongoing poverty. Kouyaté’s black-and-white images, which portray the nation’s youthful optimism following independence from the French, were picked up by both Aperture and Whitewall. The Detroit-based Heidelberg Project, a presenter at the upcoming Creative Time Summit, has assembled public art installations from discarded materials 1986. They provided an exclusive take on the recent fire that destroyed one of their main exhibition houses. That statement, as well as a photo essay of the Project, was featured on Artinfo. Finally, Lebanese architect Tony Chakar, also a 2013 Creative Time Summit presenter, created a video channeling the revolutionary struggle in a rebel-held town in Syria. The silent montage questions the Western injunction to tell the story of the Arab Spring, asking, “Why do you want to know?”