@papapapararo.bsky.social
Curator, writer, tired of exceptionalism
I need to see NAZA
Gaza documentary NAZA beats Avengers Endgame: Encore to top Italian box office
Award-winning, Guardian-produced film focused on Israel’s mass killing of civilians extends run after sold-out screenings
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2026 at 11:17 AM
I need to see NAZA
how is Israel is deporting flotilla activists when they captured them? Shouldn’t it be releasing them?
Israel deports foreign Gaza-bound flotilla activists after global outcry
Move comes amid condemnation of Itamar Ben-Gvir after video posted showing detained protesters being taunted
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2026 at 1:48 AM
how is Israel is deporting flotilla activists when they captured them? Shouldn’t it be releasing them?
For those of us who work in public art institutions - Espoo’s model of longer more sustained support of artists seems a good path forward.
Finnish museum creates a new and radical support model for artists
Espoo Museum of Modern Art has committed to supporting four artists over the next several years with financial, practical and institutional backing
www.theartnewspaper.com
May 18, 2026 at 1:08 PM
For those of us who work in public art institutions - Espoo’s model of longer more sustained support of artists seems a good path forward.
Bravo and thank you Rinaldo Walcott who exposes Bienstock’s prejudices and the biases she lays bare in her doc speechless.
April 30, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Bravo and thank you Rinaldo Walcott who exposes Bienstock’s prejudices and the biases she lays bare in her doc speechless.
Universities and art schools acting like corporations has been true for decades, but it seems most relevant now. Article is NYC centred but broadly relevant, too real, and sadly reflective of my experience.
The Death of the Art School
The rampant corporatization and "administrification" of American higher-education institutions has turned students into mere consumers.
hyperallergic.com
April 28, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Universities and art schools acting like corporations has been true for decades, but it seems most relevant now. Article is NYC centred but broadly relevant, too real, and sadly reflective of my experience.
Slowly compiling art work about protest. And this grand work by Jeremy Deller always rings even though it has an unsettling register I. It depiction of violence. www.artangel.org.uk/project/the-...
The Battle of Orgreave - Artangel
The artwork made in 2001 by Jeremy Deller about the 1984 confrontation between police and picketing miners at a British Steel coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire.
www.artangel.org.uk
March 26, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Slowly compiling art work about protest. And this grand work by Jeremy Deller always rings even though it has an unsettling register I. It depiction of violence. www.artangel.org.uk/project/the-...
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Meta's latest offering: an AI powered Ring of Gyges, paid for as a monthly subscription
March 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Meta's latest offering: an AI powered Ring of Gyges, paid for as a monthly subscription
‘Men retire, women get fired’ — the quiet crisis gripping museums
March 12, 2026 at 4:52 PM
‘Men retire, women get fired’ — the quiet crisis gripping museums
Demand transparency! Call out the Barbican for its decision to curtail Devyani Saltzman’s tenure as Director for Arts and Participation. Please sign and share in solidarity.
Open Letter to Barbican
Dear Chair of the Barbican Board and Members of the City of London Corporation,
We are writing as a group of global majority creative and cultural leaders and allies to express our profound disappoin...
sites.google.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Demand transparency! Call out the Barbican for its decision to curtail Devyani Saltzman’s tenure as Director for Arts and Participation. Please sign and share in solidarity.
Such short sightedness. More silencing of strong cultural voices.
Barbican arts director to leave, months after revealing creative vision for centre
Shock departure of Devyani Saltzman comes weeks after new CEO joined and before major refurbishment
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Such short sightedness. More silencing of strong cultural voices.
Aruna DSouzas’ Whitewalling-Art-Race-Protest-in-3-Acts deserves a reread
Aruna D’Souza’s Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts | The Brooklyn Rail
Centering public protest as the platform of the oppressed—and, in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words, “riot as the language of the unheard”—author Aruna D’Souza offers an uncensored look at the role ...
brooklynrail.org
January 9, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Aruna DSouzas’ Whitewalling-Art-Race-Protest-in-3-Acts deserves a reread
I was fortune to curate “In the Near Future” by Sharon Hayes. A performance and photo work where Sharon staged lone protests holding slogans from historic mass protests.
shaze.info
January 6, 2026 at 12:21 PM
I was fortune to curate “In the Near Future” by Sharon Hayes. A performance and photo work where Sharon staged lone protests holding slogans from historic mass protests.
Thinking about art that examines mass protests. Will post here starting with this work by Ahmet Öğüt, which posits art as part of it’s strategy
Bakunin's Barricade — Ahmet Öğüt
Bakunin’s Barricade 2015-2022 Frist version Eindhoven 2015 a barricade inspired by Bakunin’s never realized proposal in 1849 using works from...
ahmetogut.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Thinking about art that examines mass protests. Will post here starting with this work by Ahmet Öğüt, which posits art as part of it’s strategy
I am humbled by faculty, student and community support
York University faculty, grad students, alumni push admin to reinstate terminated curator
Termination coincides with administration’s ‘resistance’ to artwork dedicated to student movement for Palestine, says letter from 117 signatories
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I am humbled by faculty, student and community support
Important read that sums up the political and class divides and contradictions in the artworld. Gaza its breaking point www.equator.org/articles/how...
How Gaza Broke the Art World • EQUATOR
The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence
www.equator.org
December 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Important read that sums up the political and class divides and contradictions in the artworld. Gaza its breaking point www.equator.org/articles/how...
Enjoyed reading this. Starts with the banger that the cyber truck’s only success is its perfect symbolism of the decay of the USA
Making Do
Glenn Adamson revisits Charles Jencks’s 1970s book Adhocism, arguing this improvisational approach to design is enjoying a renewed relevance today.
www.artforum.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Enjoyed reading this. Starts with the banger that the cyber truck’s only success is its perfect symbolism of the decay of the USA
