CUNY Academic Commons | gregory sholette | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/gsholette/activity/ Activity feed for gregory sholette. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 1a81b85e0e21dcdbf1e905631213000f gregory sholette started the topic FYI: REPOhistory: Activist Art and Abortion Rights in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/fyi-repohistory-activist-art-and-abortion-rights/ Sat, 02 May 2020 13:52:42 -0400 Activist Art and Abortion Rights in the Post-Roe v. Wade United States: An Analysis of the Archival Works of REPOhistory, Kerr + Malley, and Andrea Bowers

By Elizabeth S. Hawley

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Department

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

 

Abstract (essay attached)

Feminists in the u.s. viewed the 1973 passage of…[Read more]

]]> 15eaf3c578aaaef0c0d32cc02aca37de gregory sholette replied to the topic No Artist Left Alive by Max Haiven in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=88839 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:21:57 -0400 “In other words, far from demanding all artists produce propaganda, capitalism makes the artist themself (regardless of the content they produce – indeed, the more provocative the better) into a figure of their own propaganda.”

]]> d8da13464b9943f8af683f558fab35ab gregory sholette started the topic No Artist Left Alive by Max Haiven in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/no-artist-left-alive-by-max-haiven/ Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:16:59 -0400 No Artist Left Alive: Speculations on the Post-Pandemic Struggles of Cultural Workers Within, Against and Beyond Capitalism

“Art may get some bailouts precisely so that it can continue to produce nice things for the resurgent financial elite, who would otherwise be content to let artists die, like blithe aristocrats feasting during a…[Read more]

]]> b10114ae9cd04c1aa401d0a76fc7e865 gregory sholette started the topic marketing of blackness as a prized aesthetic in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/marketing-of-blackness-as-a-prized-aesthetic/ Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:52:46 -0400 Authenticity and “Post-Chocolate” Cool in a Rapidly Gentrifying Washington, D.C.How the marketing of blackness as a prized aesthetic often leaves the city’s Black residents behind.

Next City…[Read more]

]]> fe066013457c296987075f63d65aeaf5 gregory sholette started the topic Architect Bill Menking lost to Covid-19 in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/architect-bill-menking-lost-to-covid-19/ Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:14:36 -0400 co-founder William ‘Bill’ Menking passes away at age 72

DEMOLITION IN HELL’S KITCHEN

Located on West 44th Street, the Millennium Premier Hotel stands in a once largely Irish and working class neighborhood formerly known as Hell’s Kitchen but re-christened with the sanitarysounding moniker ‘Clinton’ by real estate speculators in the 1980s.…[Read more]

]]> 29976a22c9871a1d1845b0a6389e4b7f gregory sholette started the topic Beyond the Breakdown Three Meditations on a Possible Aftermath in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/beyond-the-breakdown-three-meditations-on-a-possible-aftermath/ Sun, 05 Apr 2020 16:44:31 -0400 Beyond the Breakdown: Three Meditations on a Possible Aftermath

All of a sudden, what we have been thinking for the last fifty years has to be rethought from scratch. Thank god (is god a virus?) that we have an abundance of extra time now because the old business is out of business.

I’m going to say something about t…[Read more]

]]> 1c2ae7f356361784d346eaf36c32f259 gregory sholette started the topic CULTURAL CENTERS AS NEIGHBORHOOD HAVENS: AN INTERVIEW WITH LIBERTAD O. GUERRA in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/cultural-centers-as-neighborhood-havens-an-interview-with-libertad-o-guerra/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:10:42 -0400 We had scheduled Libertad and her husband Monxo Lopez as special guests…things are of course disrupted:

https://www.latinxspaces.com/latinx-art/cultural-centers-as-neighborhood-havens-interview-with-libertad-o-guerra

]]> ada15f10b6774920f8e9e82365afe559 gregory sholette started the topic Street Art about Covid-19 in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/street-art-about-covid-19/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:20:33 -0400 https://www.boredpanda.com/coronavirus-themed-street-art-around-the-world/?media_id=2141062&fbclid=IwAR3x6GEwsgoO3hueUFSwfG-1zyG5qUI4ZSgFacvXBfZ2K2tH8OUfHXk52S8&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

]]> caa83f85a81f7a8d156d994926ebda1c gregory sholette started the topic social distancing is a privilege: Rana Ayyub on Dem Now in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/social-distancing-is-a-privilege-rana-ayyub-on-dem-now/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 00:25:01 -0400 https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/2/rana_ayyub_india_coronavirus

]]> 46808a33c93bdcfbb1e4e3b5a62bfde1 gregory sholette started the topic Moscow To Launch New Surveillance App To Track Residents In Coronavirus Lockdown in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/moscow-to-launch-new-surveillance-app-to-track-residents-in-coronavirus-lockdown/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 23:33:11 -0400 https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/01/825329399/moscow-launches-new-surveillance-app-to-track-residents-in-coronavirus-lockdown

]]> 34cb4167ebddf033507715b95baa1ba5 gregory sholette started the topic Mike Davis: The Coronavirus Crisis Is a Monster Fueled by Capitalism in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/mike-davis-the-coronavirus-crisis-is-a-monster-fueled-by-capitalism/ Sat, 21 Mar 2020 22:31:57 -0400 http://inthesetimes.com/<wbr />article/22394/coronavirus-<wbr />crisis-capitalism-covid-19-<wbr />monster-mike-davis

]]> 59f225ab44a359e6271c122749759e11 gregory sholette started the topic “Coronavirus Propagations” in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/coronavirus-propagations/ Thu, 19 Mar 2020 19:20:03 -0400 “Coronavirus Propagations” by Jonas Staal

“Let’s begin at the beginning. The coronavirus itself is inherently intertwined with global capitalism, which, as Mike Davis argues, “now appears to be biologically unsustainable in the absence of a truly international public health infrastructure.”3 Massive concentrations of livestock, hunting, and meat…[Read more]

]]> 8ed38d589008e1b957c89bfd778cab74 gregory sholette started the topic Thinking back to our last discussion... in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/thinking-back-to-our-last-discussion/ Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:28:28 -0400 Thinking back to our last discussion that seemed to pivot on the role of activism as an embedded part of one’s research and/or practice, I came across something I penned back in 1999 fyi:

 

“For [Lucy R.] Lippard, who was a co-founder of  several important collectives

including: the feminist art collective Heresies, Political…[Read more]

]]> 532e4ca7af995ebae1fb3e904653d30e gregory sholette started the topic Subverting Technology is Still Possible in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/subverting-technology-is-still-possible/ Sun, 15 Mar 2020 22:26:14 -0400 https://radiichina.com/klingon-emojis-morse-code/

Netizens Are Using Klingon, Emojis, and Morse Code to Evade Censors

]]> 523906137121f5d7130f81873b9a3670 gregory sholette started the topic RACIAL COSMOPOLITANISM: TONIGHT in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/racial-cosmopolitanism-tonight/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:06:43 -0400 Pablo José Ramírez: Translation and Racial Cosmopolitanism
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
6:30 – 8pm
ICI 401 Broadway Suite 1620  (below Canal)
New York, NY 10013
FREE and open to the public

How is that non-white Mestizajes transform and expand the artistic canon? What does it imply to speak about an indigenous planetary indigeneity?

 

]]> 12d77584ff0f3eb6fadb62cecf8851be gregory sholette replied to the topic In the secretive art market, new anti-money laundering legislation has landed li in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=85041 Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:28:08 -0500 New Issue of FIELD Journal of Socially Engaged Art:

Learning Art and Resistance from the South

http://field-journal.com/editorial/field-issue-15-editorial

]]> c5a179395b1848f365513d520da7174f gregory sholette started the topic  Art, Anti-Globalism, & the Neo-Authoritarian Turn FIELD JOURNAL 2019 in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/art-anti-globalism-the-neo-authoritarian-turn-field-journal-2019-2/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 05:11:22 -0500 some recent reports about global art & activism:

OVERVIEW PAGE

Grant Kester – Editorial Preface 

 Nkule Mabaso  – S. Africa (Cape Town)

Bo Zheng  – China (Hong Kong)

Heng-Gil Han  – S. Korea, (Seoul /NYC)

Mriganka Madhukaillya  – India (Guwahati)

Katatare Prajapati Collective – Bangladesh

Amin Husain & Nitasha Dhillon  – Palestin…[Read more]

]]> 477d66cfff6ee032878a5438e9d8b43b gregory sholette started the topic After our Feb 26 discussion: art, urbanism & resistance in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/after-our-feb-26-discussion-art-urbanism-resistance/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 05:11:22 -0500 (also emailed) I do hope you enjoyed to lively give-and-take the other day. I certainly did. It’s especially good to know that “art” can still stimulate such debates. Just fyi, my primary aim with that batch of readings was to provide a fairly broad (always room to expand, see below the link to special 2019 issue of FIELD Journal) theoretical and…[Read more]

]]> 3b94b0aea59a6610d1da723f76ed0e21 gregory sholette replied to the topic In the secretive art market, new anti-money laundering legislation has landed li in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=84772 Sat, 29 Feb 2020 14:45:57 -0500 Hi TL attaching the article and another related one…I also sent these in a recent email – g

]]> b875c8273afefc53cde7e3f861be50ff gregory sholette started the topic In the secretive art market, new anti-money laundering legislation has landed li in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/in-the-secretive-art-market-new-anti-money-laundering-legislation-has-landed-li/ Fri, 21 Feb 2020 23:15:32 -0500 https://www.ft.com/content/a5beb8e2-5334-11ea-90ad-25e377c0ee1f

]]> fee1fa892de049cdcdf718f5274645c9 gregory sholette started the topic Hegel, well, not so much laughing as getting ready to chortle at us... in the forum Core Seminar in Urban Studies Spring 2020 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/core-seminar-in-urban-studies-spring-2020/forum/topic/hegel-well-not-so-much-laughing-as-getting-ready-to-chortle-at-us/ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:21:21 -0500 “A large part of my indebtedness is to Jean Hyppolite. I know that, for
many, his work is associated with that of Hegel, and that our age, whether
through logic or epistemology, whether though Marx or through Nietzsche, is
attempting to flee Hegel….But truly to escape Hegel involves an exact
appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach…[Read more]

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