Dispatches

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  Black Radical Brooklyn

  Tempus Fugit in the People’s Republic of BK

  September 17, 2014 - 

  As part of Creative Time’s exhibition “Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn,” a collaboration with Weeksville Heritage Center, the writer and musician Greg Tate evokes a time and place he calls “Original Brooklyn: the radically Black BK of haute culture and avant-cult leaders.”  More

  By Greg Tate

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  Editor's Letter

  Clearing the Air: Artists Take on Corporate Influence in Natural History Museums

  September 2, 2014 - 

  Ahead of the People’s Climate March, Creative Time Reports Editor Marisa Mazria Katz speaks with the artist collective Not An Alternative about their Natural History Museum, a new project that confronts the unsavory influence of corporate cash on science institutions.  More

  By Marisa Mazria Katz and Not An Alternative

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  Dispatch

  Some of My Best Friends Are Scottish

  September 2, 2014 - 

  Frequenting his favorite London pubs, the English artist Paul Davis asked Scottish friends and strangers what they thought about the impending referendum on independence from the United Kingdom. He matched their responses to limned images of a few great Scots, lending some historical heft and a touch of ventriloquism to the project.  More

  By Paul Davis

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  Dispatch

  Running Orders: A Poem for Gaza

  July 28, 2014 - 

  More than 1,000 Palestinians—the vast majority of them civilians—have been killed during Israel’s latest assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, which is home to roughly 1.8 million Palestinians. Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s poem conveys the harrowing experience of receiving Israeli warnings of imminent strikes and having nowhere to run.  More

  By Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

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  Editor's Letter

  Occupying Empty Houses and Airwaves to Fight Foreclosures in Boston

  July 1, 2014 - 

  As members of the Boston-based community group City Life/Urbana Vida moved a homeless couple into an empty house, a collective of artists and activists including John Hulsey set up a pirate radio station inside the house and organized conversations about housing equity using the frequency of a recently shuttered radio station.  More

  By Marisa Mazria Katz