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‣ Last week, Hyperalgic The editor -in -chief Hrag Vartanian and the publisher Veken Gueyikian gathered a group with the Armenian plaque from Grove to Union Square to commemorate the day of the memory of the Armenian genocide. Arun Venugopal reports on Vartanian petition demanding that the mayor Adams recognize the genocide Gothamist::

“We gathered because last year, we were really disturbed by the news that the mayor of New York may have agreed not to recognize the Armenian genocide due to a sort of behind-the-side agreement,” said Vartanian.

Federal prosecutors accused Adams of having used the power of his office in exchange for luxury travel upgrades and illegal campaign contributions from Turkish nationals. In the federal accusation act against Adams, the prosecutors said that Turkish official contacted a member of Adams staff on April 21, 2022, noting that the day of the memory of the Armenian genocide approached and asked for the assurance that ADAMs would not make a statement. The prosecutors said that the staff member had provided this insurance and that Adams had not made a declaration.

Vartanian, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine of the Hyperallergic arts, launched an online petition urging people “to tell the mayor that there is no place for the denial of genocide or the equivasse on the genocide in New York!”

‣ And earlier in April, our editor -in -chief Valentina di Liscia moderated lighting sign For the Abrons Arts Center on increasingly high costs to be an artist in New York – and how the artistic community builds more sustainable systems:

‣ Nostalgia for the comfortable aesthetics of the 90s is very alive, and Harry McCracken revisits the illustrations of Raton Folkloric Folk Folkity on the IT magazine Technologist::

If you inspect art closely, you will spot a few vintage software boxes 1991, including the Microsoft Office (which, like Thefacebook.com, finally lost its “”). But they are Easter eggs in a scene that mainly concerns rawlywashers – assisted by a rabbit and a beaver – and play what I suppose is folk music. The play looks like an illustration of a chic children's book. This made sense, because Ingraham's work in this area helped him secure his PC connection allocation.

What was this beautifully made and homemade scene – partly Beatrix Potter, partly Norman Rockwell – in a correspondence ad for IT products? The text below, by the editor David Bistein, admitted that people could find it confusing. He explained that the PC connection was based in Tiny Marlow, New Hampshire (Population 567) and was proud of good customer service. The goal of the characters, he said, was to add “a human touch to high technology”.

‣ The sculptor Scott Burton approached public seats as a form of public art. For New York Review of BooksJarrett Earnest Mines The radical values ​​integrated in its interest in objects designed for rest:

Throughout the 1980s, Burton turned to facilities specific to the funeral site which seemed to merge all his interests and efforts before. By situating his sculptures in a broader environment, he combined his decades of research on emotional and psychological nuances of body language and the organization of social space, infusing apparently modest furniture with its queer policy and class consciousness. The result was what he considered to be a “public art” really:

“Not because it is necessarily located in public places, but because its content is more than the private history of its creator. It could be called popular art, not because it is a mass art, but because it is not an unpopular art, not a “difficult” or “critical” art.

The fact that Burton lived with AIDS while carrying out its most ambitious public projects adds another valence, the one that was at the heart of the re -engagement with its work and its inheritance today. In his transition from performance to sculpture through public space, his oddity, like his conception of art, continued to develop in scope and involvement. While he was displaying his personal life dressed in leather among friends close to the world of art, the public character of Burton in the 1980s has become one of the teachers consumed, minimizing his more previous and more queer performance work at the service of the realization of his increasingly complex public commissions. There was an undeniable power to make public spaces so that foreigners gather during the AIDS crisis, to touch and be touched by objects, when those who suffered were treated as parias, legally and socially excluded from public life while facing their own mortality and that of their friends. Burton's installations evoke possible communities, the comfort of foreigners crossing but diffusing over time.

‣ Last week, a crowd of around 100 men tracked down and threatened a woman in Crown Heights because they thought she was part of a protest against the Minister of Security in Israel, Itamar Ben-Gvir. Jake Offenhartz reports the horrible incident for AP::

“As soon as I went up my scarf, a group of 100 men came immediately and surrounded me,” said the woman, who spoke after the cover of anonymity because she feared for her safety.

“They shouted on me, threatening to rape me, singing” death to the Arabs “. I thought the police would protect me from the crowd, but they did nothing to intervene, “she said.

While the songs grew in intensity, a lonely police officer tried to escort him safely. They were followed for blocks by hundreds of men and boys who laugh at Hebrew and English.

The video shows two of the men who give him a kick in the back, another throwing a circulation cone in his head and a fourth pushing a trash in her.

“It's America”, can be heard one of the men. “We had Israel. We now have an army. ”

‣ Ice released the Palestinian student from Columbia yesterday, Mohsen Mahdawi, two weeks after stopping it for his activism. THE InterceptJessica Washington reports this important step in the middle of the wave of kidnapping and deportations of the Trump administration:

“It is a kind of death sentence,” said Mahdawi to The Intercept. “Because my people are killed unjustly blindly.”

Although his legal battle is underway, the decision marks a clear victory for international students at the center of the Trump administration against the Pro-Palestinian organizers. “We hope he will take momentum for the publication of Mahmoud (Khalil), Rumeysa (Öztürk), Dr. Bader Khan Suri and other students and academics detained for their speech in the support of the rights of the Palestinians”, Noor Zafar, a lawyer for senior staff from the ACLU legal team, the rights of immigrants and a member of Khalil's Legal, wrote to the intercept.

‣ I know that we are all tired of the tests on the perils of Chatgpt, but the last of Saachi Koul for Slate On the discovery of a biography generated by AI, his life offers frank information on paternity, risk and human touch:

Earlier this year, I read One day, everyone has always been against it, By Omar El Akkad, on Palestine, the failure of neoliberalism and the claustrophobic realization that the West did not hold its endless promises. “There is nothing terrible that comes for you in the distant future, but know that a terrible thing happens to you NOW. You are asked to kill part of you that would howl otherwise in opposition to injustice. You are asked to dismantle the machines of a functional conscience, “he writes.” Who cares if the diplomatic opportunity prefers that you raise the shoulders of dismembered children? Who cares if a great distance from the bloody blood allows forgetting? Forget pity, even forget the dead if you have to, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

It is an almost perfect book, but what is remarkable on this subject is not only that it exists – as if someone could write it, robot or man – but in particular that someone as El Akkad wrote, now, at this time when it is risky to write with such clarity on the Palestinians and fascism. He is Muslim, born in Egypt, raised in Qatar and Canada, now living on the west coast. Inevitably, his work is often filtered by white leaders and the white public, not to mention Canadian artistic subsidies formerly funded by, for example, a bank with a participation in an Israeli weapons manufacturer. His art, focused on the essential question of human freedom, is a risk for him. The point of A day Is it not only that the work is stirring and the prose is excellent. The fact is that it has held the neck, which also allows me to stick mine more easily. The context is what makes art impressive beyond a simple technical success – the medium is the message, and therefore the messenger is also part of the story. A book without author is only a brochure. There is no real value in a drawing made by the hands that I do not see or do not know. It is not enough that something simply exists.

‣ A new episode of Countless earth Survey of science behind the crackling sounds generated by the Northern Lights: