Op-eds
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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 -
Teddy Cruz to Ted Cruz:
Tear Down That WallNovember 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 -
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 -
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 -
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