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• Rebellion show marks 1967 Detroit riot

  22-07-2017 23:00
  Five artist collectives are at the centre of a show organised by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Dia). The Art of Rebellion: Black Art of the Civil Rights Movement (23 July-22 October) includes 34 works by artists such as Wadsworth Jarrell, Elizabeth Catlett and Anthony Barboza, among others, who were variously members of groups such as Spiral and the Black Arts Movement collective in New York. These artists were concerned with politically and socially oriented work dealing with race, which has o
  
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• Have Selfies Gotten In The Way Of Real Experiences?

  22-07-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A symptom of modern living, but a no less inevitable one, require we live in a state of constant negotiation: between the pull of the world and one’s own conditioned desires. The writer Jenna Wortham, in 2013, described selfies as part of “a timeless delight in our ability to document our lives and leave behind a trace for others to discover.” If social media first intended to connect us, its promise has taken a sharp, inauspicious turn inward: the self has become pa
  
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