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Accelerationism has been popularized in the past decade by the British philosopher Nick Land, who is part of the so-called neo-reactionary or Dark Enlightenment movement populated by figures including Curtis Yarvin, a former programmer and blogger whose proposals for an American monarchy have enjoyed renewed relevance during Trump 2.0.
On one table was a giant human arm, part of a monument of Father Capodanno bound for Staten Island; in back was a plaster mold of the head of Martin Luther King, Jr., for a bust that sits in the Oval Office.
As we near the National Gallery’s much-anticipated double reveal of its collection rehang and remodelled Sainsbury Wing, here is a curious tale about its instinct to remain closed, at least in spirit.
I would plunk my tricorne hat atop my head and meet the incoming waves of visitors, herding them around the Common and telling them the story of the April morning in 1775 when brave townspeople made their stand against the British and their king in the first fighting of the Revolution.
More than 460 visual artists, dancers, and poets signed a letter in protest of the requirements for grant applications accepted by the NEA this month in compliance with President Trump’s latest executive order, one in a growing list intended to shape what art is made and displayed in America.
In exchange for Adams’s coöperation with Trump’s immigration crackdown, Bove’s memo said, the Justice Department was prepared to endorse the Mayor’s unsubstantiated theory of the case against him: that it was a politically motivated prosecution provoked by his criticism of former President Joe Biden’s border policies.
Fiona Greenland is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, one of several prestigious US institutions that contribute to the Conflict Observatory, and the co-chair of the Cultural Resilience Informatics and Analysis (Curia) Lab, which released a report in January on the environmental impact of Russia’s destruction of the Oskil dam on the Sviati Hory National Park.
The 2,000-year-old ruins, once a public building where major political, economic and administrative decisions were made, were found underneath 85 Gracechurch Street, a commercial office close to Bank tube station and London Bridge, which is due to be demolished.
Begum, who was born in Bangladesh, another country that is highly vulnerable to climate change, told The Art Newspaper: “During my research visits to Oulu, I have been struck by the exceptional beauty of the low Arctic light, along with the wonderful walks along the seafront, where I have observed the many shapes of the frozen and melting sea ice.
“I had my heart set on it because, as an artist, I did a performance in Arnold Circus at the end of the road and I did some community classes in this building too, so it felt the right space for me.” She adds: “I find the Shoreditch art scene really exciting—I’m a big admirer of galleries like Emalin, Kate MacGarry, Maureen Paley.”
In its appeal, the Académie des beaux-arts also denounced “verbal attacks against arts and artists launched by some local politicians” who are seeking to justify the cuts and threatening the “freedom of research and creation, necessary to our democracy”.
A silicone cast of a peach tree from her garden that failed to survive Los Angeles’s heat and drought hangs upside down from the ceiling, with bits of delicate bark clinging to its limp branches.