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giancarlovolpe: leseanthomas: There are few young artists I’ve encountered in the last 10 years who, upon meeting has instantly inspired me. Like, seriously. Whenever I see Toronto resident/ born and raised Accra, Ghana, West African creative wunderkind, Gyimah Gariba’s work, I am reminded that in some small way, the future of art/animation will be okay for us,…
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Now, it seems as if there’s a perception that going to art school is part of a clear career path that you can follow towards a respectable profession. The market is bigger and can support more people, sure, but if it seems as if there is a clear path, that’s an illusion. Academicism, professionalism, bureaucracy,…
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I decided to stop using the word “work” as an experiment. It was very difficult! I had to compensate by substituting a more specific description of the activity. For example, instead of “I’m going to my studio to work,” I’d have to say, “I’m going to make some drawings.” Or instead of “I’m going to…
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75 books that Jorge Luis Borges thinks you should have in your bookshelf
observando: 1. Stories by Julio Cortázar2. & 3. The Apocryphal Gospels4. Amerika and The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka5. The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton6. & 7. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins8. The Intelligence of Flowers by Maurice Maeterlinck9. The Desert of the Tartars by Dino Buzzati10. Peer Gynt and Hedda…
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katfajardoart: As a Latina growing up in the U.S. “fitting in” can be quite challenging. Gringa! express years of personal struggle with cultural identity through assimilation, racism, and fetishization of Latinx culture. Debuted at RIPExpo, now this 17 page pdf is available thru Gumroad for just $3! And please feel free to share your experiences dealing…
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emergentfutures: How High School Students Use Instagram to Help Pick a College It was easy to find schools’ official Instagram accounts. (“What does one semester on campus look like?” prompts Duke’s admissions website. “Follow @DukeStudents on Instagram.”) But Barnett soon realized that if he clicked on an Instagram photo’s geotagged location, he would be able…
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Neoliberalism is a governing rationality through which everything is “economized” and in a very specific way: human beings become market actors and nothing but, every field of activity is seen as a market, and every entity (whether public or private, whether person, business, or state) is governed as a firm. Importantly, this is not simply…