Friday, June 5, 2020
"This is not a painting"- Bisa Butler
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Thursday, June 4, 2020
No Voice Is Too Small
They prove no voice is ever too small, and it’s never too late to speak up for what’s right.
Women of the White Buffalo
She is an award–winning filmmaker and photographer working for a variety of magazines and clients, as well as directing music and short videos, and documentary films.
Her latest work, Women of the White Buffalo, follows the women of the Lakota tribe in South Dakota.
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Kurt Cobain with dolls' heads
Photograph: Mark Seliger
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Wednesday, June 3, 2020
A photo worth more than words: Police officers kneel as peaceful demonstrators march by the Trump International hotel. There was an immediate outburst of joy and fist bumping. pic.twitter.com/oilp4U5zaE— Julia Boccagno (@juliaboccagno) June 1, 2020
A controversial new study suggests that the United States of America could benefit from having a President.
The study has raised eyebrows by claiming that a President could be helpful in unifying a country and, in a best-case scenario, providing moral leadership.
“At a time of crisis, a President could be a galvanizing figure who leads a country to a better future,” the study theorizes. “He or she could bring a nation together rather than tear it apart.”
In one of the study’s most radical proposals, it argues that a so-called Justice Department could include an Attorney General appointed by the President to uphold the rule of law.
“Additionally, a President, by scrupulously obeying the law himself, could set an example for the rest of the country,” the study claims. “As improbable as it might seem, citizens would look to the President as someone to admire and emulate in their daily lives.”
While many in the United States remain resistant to the concept of having a President, the study says that desperate times may lead them to consider such an unorthodox measure.
“We have ample evidence of what happens when a country does not have a President,” the study concludes. “It’s a shit show.”
The Borowitz Report
The Borowitz Report
"Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey" by Haruki Murakami
Illustration by Hisashi Okawa
“Shall I scrub your back for you?” the monkey asked, his voice still low. He had the clear, alluring voice of a baritone in a doo-wop group. Not at all what you would expect. But nothing was odd about his voice: if you closed your eyes and listened, you’d think it was an ordinary person speaking.
“Yes, thanks,” I replied. It wasn’t as if I’d been sitting there hoping that someone would come and scrub my back, but if I turned him down I was afraid he might think I was opposed to having a monkey do it. I figured it was a kind offer on his part, and I certainly didn’t want to hurt his feelings. So I slowly got up out of the tub and plunked myself down on a little wooden platform, with my back to the monkey.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2020
No one can ignore a black woman on a horse
Why can't we leave them alone?
From high in the Latin American rainforest, the absurd mammal is the focus of a frenzied obsession that shows no sign of abating. Sloths are on bank notes, adverts, T-shirts, internet memes and Instagram fan pages.
“People are obsessed,” says Costa Rica’s president, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, when asked why people have fallen in love with the creature. “The sloth is quite a unique animal. It’s also very related to the forest. I believe it’s the elegance of the movement.”
But as with many examples of anthropomorphised wildlife, the trappings of fame have started to cause problems for the humble sloth.
Monday, June 1, 2020
“Babel Tower” by Shirin Abedinirad
Artist Christo has died at 84
Shakespeare told us 'all the world's a stage', Christo showed us all the world's an art gallery.
The Bulgarian-born artist wasn't interested in the sterile white walls of the modern museum where objects exist apart from everyday life. He wanted to turn everyday life into art, to make people look again and think again about their surroundings. He did this by way of intervention - either by wrapping a building such as the Reichstag in Berlin in blue material, or a section of the Australian coastline in one million square feet of fabric - in both cases turning cold, hard structures into sensuous, fragile sculptures. He worked in collaboration with his wife Jeanne-Claude, whom he met in Paris in 1958. They made their first major outdoor work three years later in Germany, covering oil barrels stacked in Cologne harbour with material. Jeanne-Claude died in 2009 leaving Christo to continue alone, which he did, with a plan to wrap the L'Arc de Triomphe in Paris next year - a project that will probably still be realised.
By Will Gompertz
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