Hi all,
Truly can’t imagine a hotter summer.
With heat waves in Europe, an ever changing political sphere, and wars still ongoing abroad, it’s a surreal time to be alive. No one can deny that yet we still find ourselves time and time again drawn back to art of all kinds. We make sense of it every day in the ways we can yet even the art world is chaotic.
New York is in full swing, regardless of what’s going on elsewhere. It almost feels that New York City exists in a space and time of its own, uniquely existing in a bubble while the rest of the world lives on as it does. Well, here’s the week.
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Climate Activists Keep Gluing Themselves to Artwork in Museums |
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This piece by Observer’s reporter Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly on the European climate activist group that has made a splash by gluing themselves to artwork is an excellent write-up. It’s fascinating the ways in which the unheard will make themselves known.
European climate activists have embraced a new method in order to bring attention to their cause—gluing their hands to acclaimed pieces of art.
The most recent case in a series of radical museum protests occurred on July 22 at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, when two advocates glued their hands to a 15th century painting by Sandro Botticelli.
The activists attached themselves to the glass protecting the painting, according to Uffizi spokesman Tommaso Galligani, and no harm was done to the work itself. The glue was removed with chemical cleaner that doesn’t damage glass, he said. |
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TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants
Writer Cal Newport at the New Yorker has delved into TikTok’s foundational power over how social media platforms are choosing to operate, and why this could be its downfall.
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Inside the far right’s growing obsession with art
It’s not surprising that fascists tend to have a tendency to obsess over art, Hitler’s obsession with “degenerate” modern art can be seen as an the earliest cultural culling leading up to the Holocaust. Over at Dazed, writer James Greig dives into the history of the Nazi art obsession and how it is playing out today among fascist groups.
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Some View on the World 
7 thoughts on “The Observer end of July 2022 overview”