In this tenth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, with the US Midterm elections less than a week away and in the immediate aftermath of elections in Serbia, Brazil and Israel, each telling their own stories about representative democracy and its limits, this episode follows the money and looks for value in democratic […]
This post documents the action Such Despotism (Final Version, 4th of July, 2026) by minus plato? on July 4th, 2026, outside the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland. Such Despotism is a project that engages the resonances of the 1970 composition Jefferson by Frederic Rzewski for the current dire state of the United States of America […]
David Plylar: I’d like to start with something that’s a bit unusual for me, which is not a question, but rather a statement, and this is that I had the opportunity in 2012 to put together a chamber concert in South Africa at the Grahamstown Festival, which is kind of an obscure part of South […]
No president has ever been subjected to the incessant slander leveled at him, the relentless daily assault that would drive most mortals to a permanent fetal position. Much of it has been outright lies. But he shrugs it off and spends every waking moment addressing the nagging problems we face and combating the forces who […]
Do you remember gathering at the Tiki-Room to talk about time and lawlessness?
When he visited An American City, the inaugural FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art in September 2018, my librarian attended an evening reception for the launch of the second volume of the exhibition catalog at an event at the Cleveland Public Library amid Yinka Shonibare’s The American Library, a both dazzling and sobering installation […]