ROT THE MAP: Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin’s WHETHER LINE at the Fondazione Prada
032c Dossier: A Museum for James Baldwin
The novelist, essayist, and social critic James Baldwin has been dead for more than 30 years, but he is still a Jeremiah: a mournful prophet whose warnings about the health of the world appear to have gone unheeded. His 1963 book The Fire Next Time has reemerged as a discomforting guide for those bewildered by the global ascendance of the populist right, by the persistence of wealth disparity in the world’s most developed countries, by the deportations, by attacks on the free press, by police killings. Those seeking reassurance in the present through the belief that things “used to be worse” will find little comfort in his words. But perhaps they will find direction in his things . . . READ MORE ➡️
COMMON GENDER: Secret Codes
💥🏛 ARCHITECTURE’S LOST HEROINE 🏛💥
Madelon Vriesendorp, painter, sculptor, and OMA co-founder, welcomes the Guardian’s Nell Card (plus daughter Betsy) into her London home, a playground “perfect for five-year-olds.” The multi-hyphenate artist has been sidelined and uncredited throughout her career, though a 2018 Ada Louise Huxtable Prize-win suggests she is finally getting her due.
📲 READ MORE @ the GUARDIAN.
Opening Friday (April 12) at David Zwirner, London, William Eggleston 2¼ showcases square-format photography from California and the American South in the 1970s – saturated figurative statements that exist somewhere between portraiture and landscape. More info: www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/
032c Sales Director Nunguja Kisalya (aka GUCCI) wears 032c COSMIC WORKSHOP leatherwear.
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The Sources of Far-Right Radicalization are All Around Us 👩💻👨💻
“When it comes to the threat of Islamist terrorism, no one doubts the role of radicalisation. The internet, hate preachers such as Anjem Choudary and Abu Hamza, and the western-armed, extremism-exporting state of Saudi Arabia: all play their part in radicalising the impressionable. When it comes to the far right, however, this consensus is absent. The reason for this is as obvious as it is chilling: the hate preachers, recruiting sergeants and useful idiots of rightwing extremism are located in the heart of the British, European and American establishments. They are members of the political and media elite.”
Read: OWEN JONES @ the Guardian 📲
I STILL LIKE TO MOW IT ALL DOWN: Harmony Korine
DO STREETWEAR BRANDS PURPOSEFULLY EXCLUDE WOMEN? 🤷♀️🤷♀️
“In my experience . . . the industry has unintentionally pushed women out by creating barriers to entry. Investment capital, retail stores, e-commerce platforms and social media communication have been controlled by men for the last two decades.
If [brands] don’t commit to growing and serving their female audiences, they’re going to be left behind.”
READ Reggie Casagrande’s Op-Ed
at the Business of Fashion
🔦 A MAP TO THE DARK: FRANCO “BIFO” BERARDI READS HITO STEYERL.
“Duty Free Art, in my view, is a psychomantic book. Sadness, depression, panic, attention disorders, the dementia epidemic: these are the symptoms that we need to interpret in order to act prophetically, to interpret the enigma of ‘future’. We will not discover some secret, necessary truth, only the symptoms of possibility.”
Read: “Prophecy and Computation” on the VERSO BLOG 📕
Visit: Hito Steyerl at ADK BERLIN and THE SERPENTINE GALLERIES LONDON 🛰
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY: On his last day in the 032c WORKSHOP, our high school intern Lenn got dripped in 032c apparel and skated off into the sunset 🌅 💰 You’re welcome for the best two weeks of your life Lenn. 😭
