Dr Sarah Feinstein
@1000plateaus.bsky.social
used to work in museums, now works at School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds (she/her)
With everything going on in the UK (and the world) today... Events like this are needed more than ever. You should join @myfanwytristram.bsky.social and @rickardsisters.com at the @leedslitfest.bsky.social PLACARDS & PANELS event. Get your ticket here: www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/placa...
Join us from 6–14 June for a city-wide celebration of words & imagination. Our biggest collaboration yet as we bring together more than 50 events across 16 venues. Lots of the city’s best writers joined together with friends from afar. LLF 2026 PROGRAMME 👇👇👇 www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/
I'm looking forward to reading Leigh Raiford's new book When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World (also great 40% discount offer available via @dukepress.bsky.social) www.dukeupress.edu/when-home-is...
When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World
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BREAKING: Second Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Liam Shrivastava has been elected Mayor of Lewisham – huge congratulations!
Workers at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City joined three dozen UAW Local 2110 organizers to picket the museum’s annual gala, demanding higher wages and better benefits.
American Folk Art Museum Workers Picket Gala, Calling for Higher Wages
Staffers say they were forced to take action after negotiations for a new contract remained stalled for nearly two years.
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On May 11, join Dean Spade, Autumn Brown, and R. Jessica Rosenberg for a virtual panel to celebrate the new edition of Mutual Aid, discuss how efforts have changed between 2019 and 2026, the repression of Stop Cop City activists, and much more. RSVP below! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/m...
Mutual Aid in 2026: How Minneapolis Fights Back
On May 11th at 6pm (EST), Verso will be joined by Dean Spade, Autumn Brown, and R. Jessica Rosenberg to celebrate the new edition of Mutual Aid, discuss how mutual aid efforts have changed between 201...
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A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher Walter Benjamin emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/faPpUP
What Walter Benjamin Knew
A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience.
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Today marks the launch of our Theory Sale! Don't miss out on your chance to save 40% on a selection of key texts both old and new.
Announcing: The Verso Books Theory Sale
"Theory becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses." Our annual Theory Sale runs now through April 10th at 11:59pm. Don't miss out on your chance to save 40% on a selection of key t...
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The UK's biggest conference for arts, culture and heritage marketers returns this summer, heading back to Leeds for three days of learning, connection and inspiration.
AMA Conference 2026 - Together - Arts Professional
Arts Professional is proud to be Media Partner for the AMA Conference 2026.
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Independent venue closures, social media algorithms and the rise of generative AI are all part of an ecosystem that artists say is becoming increasingly difficult for working musicians to weather.
As the Live Nation trial continues, how do artists actually feel about touring?
Independent venue closures, social media algorithms and the rise of generative AI are all part of an ecosystem that artists say is becoming increasingly difficult for working musicians to weather.
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DePaul University’s decision to close its campus art museum has sparked outrage in Chicago, including an open letter that criticized the move as “short-sighted, wrong-headed, and grounded in some deeply disappointing principles of prioritization.”
Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash
Over 2,000 faculty and students have called on the Chicago school to reverse its decision, which came after budgetary concerns and layoffs in December.
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After 14 years, the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan will terminate its master of arts degree in curatorial practice when program founder and chair Steven Henry Madoff retires in May 2027.
School of Visual Arts Shutters Its Curatorial Practice MA Program
The 14-year-old program is no longer accepting applicants, the school said.
hyperallergic.com
Before In the Wake, there was Monstrous Intimacies. A major work.
Monstrous Intimacies At 15@monstrousat15.bsky.social · 6mo agoMark your calendars! Monstrous Intimacies at 15—a colloquium dedicated to Christina Sharpe's monograph—will be held in Toronto, Ontario on June 22-24, 2026! @hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Join us on March 2 for an exclusive conversation with artist and Hyperallergic contributor Damien Davis, whose distinctive voice challenges the power structures and inequities of the contemporary art world.
Keeping a Critical Eye on the Art World With Damien Davis
Join us on March 2 for a virtual conversation with artist and Hyperallergic contributor Damien Davis.
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Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....
If art institutions want to stand with people whose lives have been upended by detention and deportation, their solidarity has to show up as time, protection, and material support that outlasts a social media post.
After the Strike, Will Art Galleries Be Allies?
If deleting the social media post tomorrow would change nothing about how artists are paid or how resources are allocated, the gallery’s allyship is disposable.
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Next mixer alert: join us at City Screen Picturehouse York on 18 February with pals York Filmmakers! This is your chance to meet potential collaborators and share ideas. Attendance is free, but you’ll need to sign up in advance: bit.ly/fhn-mixer #Filmmaking #YorkEvents #FilmNetworking
The BFI Film Audience Network conference is coming to Newcastle in September 2026! Join us to connect with colleagues, learn from peers behind some of the most innovative BFI FAN projects, and discover fresh ideas for reaching and engaging audiences. Registration coming soon rb.gy/dnw3bu ⏳
Cultural organizations across the US closed today in solidarity with immigrants. Public gestures of support are unfolding in NYC, where two weeks ago, a group of Tribeca galleries met to address an influx of street vendors in the area, many of whom are immigrants under threat.
Tribeca Galleries Discuss Reporting Street Vendors, Drawing Criticism
A group of galleries met to address the “increasing number of vendors” on and near Broadway, many of whom are immigrants under threat.
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On a trend us film professors have seen. Free link to “The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films” from THE ATLANTIC yesterday. archive.ph/GFWzW
A gem of a conversation on persistence in organisaing @deathpanel.bsky.social Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (01/22/26)
Podcast Episode · Death Panel · 22/01/2026 · 1h 1m
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Philadelphia is suing the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service after officials removed artwork and panels about the history of slavery from Independence National Historical Park on Thursday.
Philadelphia Sues Trump Administration Over Removal of Slavery Exhibits
The city is pursuing legal action after artwork and panels about the history of slavery were removed from a historic park.
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Panahi's latest film, It Was Just an Accident, won three Gotham Awards on Monday. The filmmaker has been imprisoned in Iran before — but continues to make movies. n.pr/4oAZ5o5
Filmmaker Jafar Panahi is sentenced again in Iran as Hollywood's awards season starts
Panahi's latest film, It Was Just an Accident, won three Gotham Awards on Monday. The filmmaker has been imprisoned in Iran before — but continues to make movies.
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Antonia is an amazing photographer and this project is fierce. Please consider backing it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/reb...
BE MY REBEL
Protest Photographs through art, music, action, and essays by Antonia Tricarico
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Ruth Asawa—a child of immigrants persecuted for their national origin—forged an art of connection that expressed a determination to be, and to make others feel, at home in the world. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wdv39J
Ruth Asawa’s Art of Defiant Hospitality
A retrospective at MOMA puts forth a persuasive case for an artist who saw making her work and living with others as inextricably entwined.
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A stunning response (i.e., more than just a review) of GHOSTING, by Tyran Grillo. If you don't have the time or inclination to read the book, this serves as an excellent bluffer's guide to something we all deal with, at some point.
Dominic Pettman: Ghosting (Book Review)
Ghosting: On Disappearance is a treatise of nonbeing—or, perhaps more precisely, of unbeing. It is not merely about disappearance but about the existential tremors that ripple outwar…
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We’re teaming up with @balticgateshead.bsky.social for Uncommon Voices, a special evening of short films exploring how working-class filmmakers are capturing class experiences in Britain today. 4 December | BALTIC, Gateshead Book your ticket: bit.ly/3JDO336 🎟
I fear that many more of us will find ourselves asking the same question unless we can end this nightmare soon.
Kumar Rao@kumar.bsky.social · 9mo agoFifteen-year-old Miguel Vazquez was one of the people who took off running when federal agents arrived. “I thought, ‘Wait, why am I running? I’m a citizen,’” Vazquez said. newrepublic.com/post/203321/...
