Dispatches

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  Dispatch Interview

  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

  By Khaled Jarrar

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  Op-Ed Feature

  Notes from Tehran: Art in the Time of Sanctions

  July 8, 2015 - 

  As officials hammer out a nuclear agreement, artist and curator Sohrab Kashani explains the challenges of living under economic sanctions that touch business, health, and creative life in Iran.  More

  By Sohrab Kashani

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  Dispatch

  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

  By Dan Perjovschi

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  Dispatch

  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

  By Perry Chen

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  Dispatch

  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

  By Matana Roberts