Earlier this month, the Guggenheim Museum announced it had received a “a major grant from the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation to support Guggenheim Social Practice, a new initiative committed to exploring the ways in which artists can initiate projects that engage community participants, together with the museum, to foster new forms of public engagement. As …
There’s been a big discussion about “burnout” among activists lately. The people I’ve been hearing from use that word to mean many different things: physical maladies of overwork; depression, a sense of futility—or at least a pervading doubt that one’s efforts matter. Exhaustion, emotional and intellectual. Some of the discussants are immersed in high-pressure races …
If I asked you to name a prodigiously talented, extravagantly flamboyant, African American, sexually fluid musician with a body like an exclamation point and a taste for the rococo whose premature death left the world a little grayer, of course you’d say “Prince,” and you’d be right. Or half-right. Every since Prince’s April 21st death …