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David Byrne: Breaking Up with the Internet
March 24, 2014 -
Disillusionment with the internet is at an all-time high thanks to the snooping of NSA agents, corporate algorithms and cyber thieves. What would a world without the web look like? David Byrne imagines a society that has gone totally offline—if only to suggest what a truly secure online life might look like. More -
A Different Type of Beauty:
Painter Mickalene Thomas Eulogizes Her Late MotherFebruary 24, 2014 -
Artist Mickalene Thomas commemorates the life of her late mother, whose conviction and resilience inspired Thomas to make a series of paintings and photographs in tribute to “Mama Bush.” More -
If We Don’t Connect It to Race and Class, Then Green Politics Is Just High-End Consumerism
February 17, 2014 -
Instead of advocating “green” lifestyles that are financially and culturally inaccessible to millions of Americans, artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph proposes we ask: What sustains life in a community? More -
Overhead: New Photos of the NSA and Other Top Intelligence Agencies Revealed
February 10, 2014 -
Artist Trevor Paglen offers a glimpse of America’s vast surveillance infrastructure, photographing three of the most powerful U.S. intelligence agencies and placing the images in the public domain. More -
Moby: Los Angeles, The First City of the Apocalypse
February 3, 2014 -
Once he realized New York had become an unaffordable city that people “visit, observe, patronize and document, but don’t actually add to,” Moby moved to Los Angeles, drawn by its ethos of experimentation and its comfort with failure. More