Category: Dispatch
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Crossing Borders, Looking Over Walls
March 14, 2016 -
The new video “Khaled’s Ladder” documents the journey of multidisciplinary artist Khaled Jarrar along the U.S.-Mexico border and the making of his new work that takes the border wall as its raw material. More -
This Earth Day, Talk to a Praying Mantis
April 22, 2015 -
Academy Award-winning filmmaker and artist Zana Briski has spent the past 10 years documenting insects around the world. For Earth Day, Creative Time Reports features the intimate moments Briski has shared staring deeply into the eyes of praying mantises and other chitinous creatures. More -
From Breadlines to Bling: Romania, 25 Years After the Revolution
December 16, 2014 -
In December 1989 street protests toppled Romania’s Communist regime, establishing a liberal democracy in the place of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s notorious dictatorship. Dan Perjovschi’s witty drawings depict the bittersweet transition from poverty and scarcity to a consumerist society. More -
Y2K: Welcome to the Jungle
December 9, 2014 -
The Y2K scare did not culminate in disaster, but it did bring to light our precarious dependence on technology. Mining his archive of Y2K ephemera, the artist Perry Chen showcases the media, cultural phenomena and thinkers that revealed our anxieties about an intricately networked world. More -
My Death Must Mean Something More: Justice for Eric Garner and Michael Brown
December 5, 2014 -
Sound artist Matana Roberts, musician Me’shell Ndegeocello and poet Staceyann Chin share a song of protest as activists fill the streets of U.S. cities, demanding police accountability. More