Economy

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  Subtlety Series

  Ricardo Cortés: The Act of Whitening

  May 7, 2014 - 

  Writer and illustrator Ricardo Cortés presents a series of drawings referencing sugar, the slave labor central to its historic manufacture and the blue delft iconography of its early distributors.  More

  By Ricardo Cortés

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  Subtlety Series

  Tracy K. Smith: Photo of Sugar Cane Plantation Workers, Jamaica, 1891

  May 6, 2014 - 

  Poet Tracy K. Smith responds to a historic photograph of Jamaican sugar plantation workers, on the occasion of Kara Walker’s A Subtlety…, presented by Creative Time at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory.  More

  By Tracy K. Smith

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  Subtlety Series

  Edwidge Danticat: The Price of Sugar

  May 5, 2014 - 

  To accompany artist Kara Walker’s first large-scale public project, A Subtlety…, presented by Creative Time at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory from May 10 to July 6, novelist Edwidge Danticat explores labor conditions on contemporary sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic.  More

  By Edwidge Danticat

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  Op-Ed

  How to Get a Whole Generation to Sell Out

  April 11, 2014 - 

  Today’s twenty-somethings aren’t apathetic or opportunistic. They’re just trying to survive an economic system that has saddled them with inescapable student debt.  More

  By Astra Taylor

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  Dispatch

  Of Crimea and Other Crises: Drawings by Dan Perjovschi

  April 8, 2014 - 

  One of Romania’s best-known artists, Dan Perjovschi, shares drawings that ironically address Russia’s occupation of Crimea as well as today’s worldwide crises of inequality, debt and surveillance.  More

  By Dan Perjovschi