Africa

The Crisis of Planetary Urbanization

David Harvey’s essay for the exhibition catalog of Uneven Growth Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities is published here on post to mark the opening of the exhibition. On the night of June 20, 2013, more than a million people in some 388 Brazilian cities took to the streets in a massive protest movement. The largest of these protests, comprising…

Poema Colectivo: Connection at a Distance

The mail art network connected hundreds of artists around the world, heralding art forms based on communication systems rather than objects. In 1981 in Mexico City, the artists’ group Colectivo 3 initiated Poema Colectivo Revolución in Mexico City in 1981 and drew upon the international mail art network, some of whose members had been exchanging artworks and…

The Meaning of “C” in C-MAP

A few remarks about MoMA’s research project “Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives in a Global Age.” Mieke Bal delivered this text as a response during the yearly C-MAP seminar that took place at The Museum of Modern Art in April 2013. Entitled “Global Networks,” this two-day long meeting of members of the three geographically oriented C-MAP…