Before 1992, Cabrini-Green, a more than 15,000-person housing project originally built as homes for war veterans, was just another Black and brown community in Chicago that was in decline. It was under-resourced, under-protected, beset by gang activity and police raids, and otherwise dismissed. Still, like many other neighborhoods throughout the country, life for the residents…
Earlier in their careers, mix-ups between the two writers were less common. They had each carved out a distinctive beat, with Wolf on feminism and Klein on corporate exploitation. The problems began, Klein believes, around 2007, when Wolf began to write more broadly on politics, and, at least on the surface, they appeared to be…
New York and federal authorities handed back 12 looted antiquities valued at $9 million to Lebanon on Thursday, including three objects removed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art last year during a flurry of multimillion-dollar seizures there. Taken from the museum were twin marble statuettes of the Greek mythological figures Castor and Pollux, valued at…
The second edition of Frieze Seoul kicked off Wednesday at the COEX convention center in the Korean capital city’s Gangnam district. This edition of the fair saw more than 120 participants from the world’s leading galleries. While it appears most galleries failed to reach single sales grossing in the millions like they did in last…
David Salle likens his studio practice to that of a novelist. He comes in in the mornings and “reads” over what he’s accomplished the day before. Then he sets to work anew. Every day in the studio for Salle is a little bit different, though, the artist says, he likes to wrap his days the…