The Guardian, “Anarchy at the south pole: Santiago Sierra plants the black flag to destroy all borders”
‘I travel a lot,” says Santiago Sierra. “But entering a country is like going to jail. Borders disgust me – as an idea and as a personal experience. This work denies all of that.” It’s a typically forthright remark from the Spanish artist, who once caused uproar by pumping carbon monoxide into a former synagogue […]
SF Weekly, ” Know Your Street Art: Bound Together”
Anarchists of the Americas and plenty of chalk keep things lively at the anarchist bookstore at 1369 Haight St. In an interview for the 2010 book Satiristas: Comedians, Contrarians, Raconteurs & Vulgarians, comedian George Carlin said “fucking” is a word that — in the right hands — can add “punch” and “effect” to a joke. People who […]
Vice, “Anarchist Black Metallers Dawn Ray’d Want to Spark a Revolution”
“Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, ‘Freedom.’ Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully.” So said writer, organizer, and anarchist icon Lucy Parsons almost a century ago, and her words still ring true over the crumbling dystopia in which those she allied herself with—women, people of color, workers, […]
Chicago Tribune, “‘Haymarket’ back for Underscore’s 2017-18 season”
Closing out the season in May will be a revival of the folk-fueled “Haymarket: The Anarchist’s Songbook,” inspired by true events surrounding the 1886 Chicago bombing and riot. The musical, to be presented at a yet-to-be-announced venue, features book and lyrics by Alex Higgin-Houser and music by David Kornfeld. Continue Reading
The Atlantic, “29 New Albums to Listen to This Fall”
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Luciferian Towers The masters of the gorgeously ominous instrumental epic have an especially anarchist raison d’etre on their sixth album, which arrives with a list of political demands and a three-part closer called “Anthem for No State.” Continue Reading
The New Yorker, “What Would a Museum of Capitalism Look Like?”
Steves, who was wearing overalls and a tool belt, dropped by the boardroom table where we were sitting, on the edge of a gallery that would house Oliver Ressler’s piece “Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies”—which consists of videos of economists and historians discussing systems like libertarian municipalism and anarchist consensual democracy. She produced a small cardboard […]
Metro, “Who you gonna call? A real-life ghostbuster”
“The history of spiritualism in America ties into the history of the suffragette movement, the abolition movement, the labor movement, the anarchist movement,” says Hendrix. “So many people get hung up on the question of whether these mediums were actually talking to spirits or committing fraud, but if you ignore that question you’re still left […]
The Huffington Post, “Temples of Transcendence”
A large collection of the radical anarchist 1960s painter Jean-Jacques Lebel and of 16th- and 17th-century masters documenting the social life of their time seems to create a cross dialogue among people, time, and place. “It’s interesting to see that the way [Lebel] envisioned art is related to the way other artists in that gallery […]
The Washington Post, “He photographed Victor Hugo and Jules Verne — now the spotlight is on him”
Yet Begley doesn’t end “The Great Nadar” here. In a substantial appendix, titled “Mementos of Nadar’s World,” he presents a gallery of the notables who visited the photographer’s studio. These included the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, the former French prime minister François Guizot and the journalist Alphonse Karr, now mainly remembered for his immortal epigram, “Plus […]
Capitol Hill Times (Seattle), “Brush up on your Shakespeare”
Alt-right vs. anarchists: The vendetta between hot-blooded Black Bloc and Proud Boy bravos is escalating from fists to knives and guns. This way madness lies. Continue Reading