Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy

By Steve Fraser

NOV 2019 | Field Notes

Living in the age of the 1 percent and the 99 percent, mired in the swamp of crony capitalism where Citizens United makes a mockery of “one man, one vote,” presided over by a felonious billionaire who has most likely never read the Constitution and is not inclined to obey it, the very notion that capitalism and democracy might cohabit the same political universe seems like a bad joke. Capitalism in its current form has become the graveyard of democracy.

Surveying the Demos: Reviving Civic Dialogue in Astra Taylor's What is Democracy?

By Esmé Hogeveen

MAR 2019 | Film

Though the film begins with allusions to rule and justice from Antiquity and the Renaissance, What Is Democracy? is very much about the global present.

Up Space, Down Space: Moving Dancers of New York

By MG Lee

MAR 2019 | Dance

While there’s been a flourish of big name choreographers and residencies cropping up in Upstate New York—Stephen Petronio and Jonah Bokaer, among others— emerging, local groups are also looking upstate for space and solitude to rehearse.

SUE COE:
Graphic Resistance

By Ann McCoy

JUL-AUG 2018 | ArtSeen

In 1986, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, as it was then known, held the first solo museum exhibition of Sue Coe’s work in New York. It was titled The Malcolm X Series. Thirty-two years later, as MoMA PS1, the institution now gives Ms. Coe her second solo exhibition in New York, Sue Coe: Graphic Resistance.