Inside Vienna’s public housing with 27 Storeys
Vienna’s Alterlaa is often considered one of the most successful public housing projects to have come from the last century. Built in the 1970s, this series of sky-reaching apartments, shaped in gently sloping pyramids, is a kind of city within the city that manifested a once-thought-to-be-utopic idea of affordable housing, where residents could swim, shop, go to school, live, and achieve what many recognize as the utilitarian ideal, ‘the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.’ In her documentary, 27 Storeys, director Bianca Gleissinger returns to her childhood home in Alterlaa to explore its nooks and crannies, memories, and...
Vienna’s Alterlaa is often considered one of the most successful public housing projects to have come from the last century. Built in the 1970s, this series of sky-reaching apartments, shaped in gently sloping pyramids, is a kind of city within the city that manifested a once-thought-to-be-utopic idea of affordable housing, where residents could swim, shop, go to school, live, and achieve what many recognize as the utilitarian ideal, ‘the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.’ In her documentary, 27 Storeys, director Bianca Gleissinger returns to her childhood home in Alterlaa to explore its nooks and crannies, memories, and...
Through vivid sculptural paintings, Los Angeles-based artist Estefania Ajcip peers in on the fractures families face when split apart. Ajcip spent much of her childhood in Guatemala, while her father worked in L.A. and missed pivotal moments of her youth. In a new body of work titled Folded Memories, the artist contends with this adolescent experience, extrapolating her recollections into poignant compositions filled with a longing for connection. From birch plywood, papier mache, small LED lights, and acrylic, Ajcip constructs a surreal world in which childhood grief and dreams converge. She often works from family photos, pulling scenes and objects from her home and pushing them into a fantastical realm....
Hyper Reality è il titolo-tema dell’undicesima edizione del Festival curato a Forlì da Vertov Project. Prologo alla Fondazione Dino Zoli con la mostra collettiva Interference, che riunisce dodici artiste internazionali nel segno dell’interferenza come forza generativa. Forlì torna a essere una Babele di stimoli e visioni, grazie a Ibrida Festival Internazionale delle Arti Intermediali: l’undicesima edizione, dal titolo-tema Hyper Reality, è in programma dal 17 al 20 settembre. Prologo essenziale e complementare sarà la mostra collettiva intermediale Interference, che dall’1 settembre all’11 ottobre metterà in dialogo le ricerche radicali di dodici artiste internazionali.
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rethinking the city through everyday life
The idea of the city is increasingly being measured not only by what it can produce, but by how it allows people to live. Across Amsterdam, Rome, Taipei, and other cities where OMA works, David Gianotten sees this shift as a changing way of working with the city. For the OMA managing partner and architect, questions of housing, mobility, public space, density, and community cannot be separated from the particular histories and conditions of each place.
That position places him somewhat at odds with the appeal of universal urban formulas. The fifteen-minute city, which has become one of the most influential planning ideas of recent years, proposes a simple...
The idea of the city is increasingly being measured not only by what it can produce, but by how it allows people to live. Across Amsterdam, Rome, Taipei, and other cities where OMA works, David Gianotten sees this shift as a changing way of working with the city. For the OMA managing partner and architect, questions of housing, mobility, public space, density, and community cannot be separated from the particular histories and conditions of each place.
That position places him somewhat at odds with the appeal of universal urban formulas. The fifteen-minute city, which has become one of the most influential planning ideas of recent years, proposes a simple...
“After New York, Aruba,” instructs a subway ad with a video showing waves softly crashing against the rocks of a tropical island. My immediate response is to Google where Aruba is.Oh, yes, of course. It’s a small Caribbean island just 18 miles north of Venezuela and it’s said to belong to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, home to the original Prince of Orange. We’ve been talking at the office about retiring the term “Golden Age” to describe the bloodiest peaks of Dutch colonialism. One land’s golden age is another’s inferno. The Netherlands shone brightest with gold that was never theirs. Our own King of Orange has another island on his mind. It’s in the Persian Gulf and it sits on a sea of...
STONE CARRIES THE MEMORY
French artist and designer Coco Brun joins forces with Mexico City-based Sten Studio for Echoes of Mexico, a collection of sculptural vessels rooted in the country’s lapidary traditions. Hand-carved from red travertine, veined marble and multicolored onyx, the pieces translate references to ancient Mesoamerican architecture and ornament into a contemporary design language. Developed with support from the Institut Français d’Amérique Latine (IFAL), Mobilier National and Galerie Territorio, the project was recently recognized in the fourth edition of Le French Design 100 at Art Paris.
The collaboration unfolds through two capsule collections, each limited to a maximum of 10...
French artist and designer Coco Brun joins forces with Mexico City-based Sten Studio for Echoes of Mexico, a collection of sculptural vessels rooted in the country’s lapidary traditions. Hand-carved from red travertine, veined marble and multicolored onyx, the pieces translate references to ancient Mesoamerican architecture and ornament into a contemporary design language. Developed with support from the Institut Français d’Amérique Latine (IFAL), Mobilier National and Galerie Territorio, the project was recently recognized in the fourth edition of Le French Design 100 at Art Paris.
The collaboration unfolds through two capsule collections, each limited to a maximum of 10...
Researcher, writer, and curator Mariam Elnozahy has been announced as chief curator of the second edition of the Ulaanbaatar Biennale. The event, which serves as a nexus for the Mongolian arts and culture sector to engage with audiences and artists from all over the world, is set to take place from June 4–30, 2027, at […]
MoMA PS1, the Museum of Modern Art’s sister museum in Long Island City, Queens, will welcome a new eatery to its restaurant space in the fall, per a press release. In early October, Chef DeVonn Francis will debut Symone, a restaurant inspired by French-African cuisine and fueled by seasonal ingredients. The café, which will be […]
I've applied for the Guggenheim Fellowship for the last five years and got rejected every time. I believe I meet the required qualifications. Is this even worth doing? Please help! —Beverly, LA Almost everyone gets rejected. Almost everyone applies more than once. Is it worth doing? That answer depends on information I don’t have. Let’s start with your time. The application process takes a lot of it. If you don’t have much time, don’t apply. The Foundation requests two four-page documents outlining your art-making plan for the year and your qualifications; three references; a list of significant work; work samples; and other basic information about yourself. You don’t put all of that...
The board of regents will discuss opening the institution inside the historic Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall—a move that could circumvent congressional approval, and president Trump
A scathing report by French government investigators accuses Pierre-Olivier Costa, the recently suspended president of Marseille’s Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM), of sexual and moral harassment, breaching rules for granting public contracts, and putting the southern French city’s only national museum “at risk,” according to a Le Monde investigation. A front-page scoop published Friday evening in France also reveals that Marseille’s public prosecutor has expanded an ongoing criminal investigation into Costa’s time as president of Marseille’s top museum, notably amid allegations that he unlawfully used preferential treatment to award contracts and hire at the...
New information has been released by a little-known Canadian federal agency about its staffers’ years-long effort to contribute to a police investigation into fraudsters selling faked paintings supposedly by Indigenous Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau. CityNews Toronto reports that the largest art fraud case in the history of Canada took at least 1,000 fakes off the market, though there may be thousands more still in private hands. The case made headlines internationally, but the contribution by the Canadian Conservation Institute, an obscure part of the Heritage Department, was previously unreported. The Institute assists some 2,700 museums, libraries, and archival organizations, and, in this case,...
minqa atelier lets the hillside set the section
In Ecuador’s Chocó forest, Minqa Atelier places a 53-square-meter residential refuge on a steep site in Pedro Vicente Maldonado, where heavy rain and difficult access shaped how the house could touch the ground. Chocó Pambil Refuge descends with the terrain as a sequence of raised wooden platforms, keeping the slope visible beneath the floor instead of cutting a flat pad into the hillside. From the forest, its dark timber walls sit behind a lighter teak frame, while glazing opens the interior toward the vegetation.
The plan uses those changes in level as its internal organization. Sleeping and shared spaces occupy separate platforms, yet they remain...
In Ecuador’s Chocó forest, Minqa Atelier places a 53-square-meter residential refuge on a steep site in Pedro Vicente Maldonado, where heavy rain and difficult access shaped how the house could touch the ground. Chocó Pambil Refuge descends with the terrain as a sequence of raised wooden platforms, keeping the slope visible beneath the floor instead of cutting a flat pad into the hillside. From the forest, its dark timber walls sit behind a lighter teak frame, while glazing opens the interior toward the vegetation.
The plan uses those changes in level as its internal organization. Sleeping and shared spaces occupy separate platforms, yet they remain...
ARLES, France — When the 57th Rencontres d’Arles photography festival opened in the second week of July, its 47 exhibitions filled the ancient churches, modern galleries, and unconventional venues of Arles with contemporary photographs, and almost no air conditioning. Sweaty yet jovial visitors moved through Roman and medieval structures and along bustling streets lined with Parisian-priced cafés, carrying personal Evian misters and plastic spinning fans, new staples of the European summer in the age of climate crisis. Opening week drew 22,000 people, nearly half the population of Arles, a small French city on the Rhône once home to Vincent Van Gogh, yet everyone appeared to know everyone, or at least to...
The Indigenous Art Centre has been unable to locate 111 works from its collection of more than 5,000 pieces by First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists
The Armory Show has announced two new museum acquisition prizes. The awards will debut at the event’s 2026 iteration, which will take place at the Javits Center in New York September 24–27, and will highlight artists from the Caribbean. According to the Art Newspaper, they are the first acquisition prizes to be established in the fair’s thirty-year […]
STOWE, Vt. — Across three adjacent screens, a warrior slathered in black oil and clothed only in dark briefs draws her double-edged sword, carefully, ceremoniously, across another combatant’s. The opponent falls back, both sword arm and sword outstretched to keep her at bay. The warrior grips her blade with her naked left hand, applies force. Her opponent sinks to her knees still holding her own sword like a talisman, like a shield, like a plea for détente. The aggressor pulls back as murky crimson water swims up and around both warriors’ legs. Around them swirl six other performers, all armed with swords and clothed similarly, with their skin wholly coated in a dark lubricant so that only their palms,...
Maya Lin, the architect and artist behind the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, and the Civil Rights Memorial in Alabama, will debut her next public art commission in April 2027 at the University of Texas at Austin. Commissioned by the university's public art program Landmarks, “Floating Landscape” will unfold across a 3,600-square-foot outdoor installation comprising sculptural, architectural, and ecological design elements.“‘Floating Landscape’ is both a work of art and a place people can inhabit,” Andrée Bober, founding director and curator of Landmarks, told Hyperallergic.The commission will be housed on the grounds of the Autry C. Stephens engineering building, within a meadow...
Matthew Barney has been an integral part of the first two editions of the Aspen Art Museum’s AIR festival in Colorado: last year, with a performance in a former military drill hall on a cattle ranch; this year, with a related sculptural installation on a nearby tract of open land. The performance, an abstract sort of musical revue titled TACTICAL Parallax, drew elements from Barney’s previous works Redoubt (a 2019 film and related sculptures engaged with pioneering and alchemical spirits associated with the American West) and Secondary (a 2023 film and set of sculptures inspired by the violence and grace of football and a notorious incident in the 1970s that exposed the sport’s darkest side). Related...
A federal court received an emergency appeal Thursday seeking to block the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from restoring President Donald Trump’s name to the building. The Kennedy Center board, led by Trump and largely composed of his allies, voted earlier this month to engrave the president’s name beneath the signage on the venue’s facade, which would read: “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated By President Donald J. Trump.” If the newly established Trump Kennedy Center Fund reaches $100 million the board would approve a second inscription reading: “Endowed by the Trump Kennedy Center Fund.” Thursday’s emergency request was filed by Rep....
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Latino may make its home in the Arts and Industries Building, which the organization already owns, rather than in a purpose-built one, reports the New York Times, which says the decision may be made at a board meeting to take place August 31. The Smithsonian confirmed the meeting to the newspaper but declined to comment further. The 1881 building is on the National Mall, sited between the Smithsonian’s Castle and the Hirshhorn Museum. The board previously resolved to erect new buildings for the Latino Museum and the American Women’s History Museum, passing over Arts and Industries. The new buildings would have required congressional...
Blank Forms has announced plans to shift base from its current Clinton Hill, Brooklyn premises to an 8,000-square-foot open plan loft on the sixth floor of 151 Lafayette Street in SoHo. The nonprofit experimental performance and art space founded by Lawrence Kumpf in 2016, is expected to complete the move this fall. Before Blank Forms, […]
The Art Newspaper is looking for an enthusiastic candidate to lead its commercial efforts in Asia
At ICD Brookfield Place in Dubai, a vibrant collection of smiling inflatables sprouts from a vaulted ceiling, creating a suspended pool party of colorful forms. The spirited installation is titled “Under the Sun” and the latest project by duo Craig & Karl. “We wanted to capture the warmth, vibrancy, and joy of summer—distilled into one space and experienced from within the expansive summer garden atrium. A way to bring the season indoors,” the pair write about the project. Included in the installation are hot-weather staples like flowers, beach balls, inner tubes, and of course, a radiant sun. The immersive work is a new installment in Craig & Karl’s Mateys universe, populated by a vivid array of...
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WHAT HAPPENS TO MATERIALS AFTER THE EXHIBITION?
Japanese designer Takuto Ohta explores the afterlife of temporary architecture with log x, a furniture project developed from approximately 200 Yoshino cedar logs originally used for an exhibition. Sourced from Nara Prefecture, the timber had been milled with a kerf — a deliberate slit intended to reduce cracking as the wood dries — and was left without a clear purpose once the installation came down. Ohta acquired the entire batch, irregularities included, and brought it to SKWAT in Kameari, Tokyo, where the material became the basis for a two-month design experiment.
Instead of beginning with a predetermined collection, Ohta worked directly with the...
Japanese designer Takuto Ohta explores the afterlife of temporary architecture with log x, a furniture project developed from approximately 200 Yoshino cedar logs originally used for an exhibition. Sourced from Nara Prefecture, the timber had been milled with a kerf — a deliberate slit intended to reduce cracking as the wood dries — and was left without a clear purpose once the installation came down. Ohta acquired the entire batch, irregularities included, and brought it to SKWAT in Kameari, Tokyo, where the material became the basis for a two-month design experiment.
Instead of beginning with a predetermined collection, Ohta worked directly with the...
Rock, Paper, Scissors will bring together more than 200 works by people in criminal justice settings
Enter The Magician’s Room, and you’ll encounter a brawny horse with a serpent coiled on its back, a flock of headless birds diving into a central star, and a fluffy white rabbit framed by an unblinking circle of eyes. This surreal, liminal space is the setting for a new body of work by Paris-based Lou Benesch. On view through August 22 at Hashimoto Contemporary, the solo exhibition takes the tarot’s Magician card as a starting point. Known as a trickster-wizard who connects the heavens and earth, the mysterious figure is primed for movement and change. Benesch translates the Magician’s inclination for action and mysticism into a collection of dreamy works on found and antique materials. “The...
To make a success of the Empress in Frau ohne Schatten, it is not enough to be a fine singer and a great actress.
Il 23 novembre 1962, in una chiesa sconsacrata nel centro di Copenaghen, Alison Knowles eseguì Nivea Cream Piece for Oscar Williams. Una fotografia di quella sera è oggi al Museum of Modern Art di New York. Nella stessa serata Dick Higgins interpretò il Drip Music di George Brecht salendo su una scala – un’invenzione esecutiva che gli interpreti ripetono ancora oggi. Era la prima delle sei sere del Festum Fluxorum, il secondo festival Fluxus della storia dopo quello di Wiesbaden, pianificato da George Maciunas e organizzato sul posto da Arthur Köpcke, dalla sezione danese della società di musica contemporanea e da Knud Pedersen, che dentro quella chiesa teneva la propria biblioteca d’arte.
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From the late 18th century through the end of the Civil War, the Underground Railroad was a network of safe houses where freedom-seekers from the South could find safety and shelter as they traveled north, sometimes all the way to Canada to escape capture and prosecution. It’s possible that there may have even been a secret code in the shapes of quilt blocks, which when arranged or displayed in a certain way could have helped direct people to stops along the route. This has never been confirmed with solid evidence, but even if it’s a thing of legend, the folk narrative is a powerful instrument for meaning in the oft-erased history of African American experience. From 18th-century hand-appliqué cotton...
We all have one, or at least some version of it: the junk drawer. Mine is a jumble of charging cables, old nails, a lanyard, matchbooks, a few key rings, scissors, an expired bottle of vitamins, every Allen wrench from every IKEA shelf I ever assembled, a few rubber bands, and frankly, who knows what else at this point. For artist Grace Baldwin, the junk drawer is a repository of memories and nostalgia, where common items end up in a place that’s simultaneously accessible and out-of-sight, out-of-mind. Lately, she’s been constructing a lifelike one at a monumental scale, drawer and all. “I typically create giant nostalgic but functional pieces, mostly through woodworking,” Baldwin tells Colossal....
Though, really, the young artists of the Merola Opera Program were more than alright in their annual showcase.
For those with Odyssey fever, this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag item features a performance of another ancient epic: Les Troyens with Russell Thomas.
Il corpo è stato uno dei grandi dispositivi attraverso cui la modernità ha costruito immagini, identità e gerarchie dello sguardo. Per secoli il corpo femminile è stato soprattutto una superficie sottoposta alla rappresentazione: osservata, idealizzata, frammentata secondo codici estetici definiti dall’esterno. Intimate Anatomies, la mostra presentata da Hauser & Wirth a St. Moritz, propone una prospettiva diversa: indagare l’instabilità della presenza fisica e la sua resistenza a ogni definizione definitiva.
Cathy Josefowitz, Maria Lassnig, Carol Rama, “Intimate Anatomies”, installation view at Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz © Estate of Cathy Josefowitz / © Maria Lassnig Foundation / © Archivio...
Cathy Josefowitz, Maria Lassnig, Carol Rama, “Intimate Anatomies”, installation view at Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz © Estate of Cathy Josefowitz / © Maria Lassnig Foundation / © Archivio...
Lou Benesch
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In Bayreuth, a confident Magnus Vigilius and luminous Jennifer Holloway attempt to elevate Wagner’s populist Rienzi.
Raccontare un artista significa, prima ancora che ricostruirne la biografia, confrontarsi con ciò che la eccede, ovvero con quella zona liminale in cui la materia si fa esperienza, memoria e pensiero. È in questo spazio, compreso tra la concretezza dell’opera e ciò che essa continua a generare nello sguardo, che si colloca la ricerca di Pietro Lista. A questa stessa dimensione appartiene Omaggio a Picasso, l’opera grafica realizzata da Lista per sostenere la produzione del docufilm dedicato alla sua ricerca. Trenta esemplari numerati e firmati che assumono un significato ulteriore rispetto alla semplice raccolta di fondi: l’opera entra nel processo di trasmissione della memoria, trasformando il...
Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
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The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...
Masanori Ushiki
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Caleb Stein
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Le sculture di Anna Maria Maiolino (Scalea, 1942) si accumulano. Si ammucchiano per ripetizione e sono costruite da gesti infiniti e dal tatto. Ma questi piccoli gesti quotidiani non sono solamente pratica artistica: visualizzano come la vulnerabilità e la sensibilità, il tatto e la cura, possono essere un atto di resistenza. La Galleria Ovale del Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) di Lisbona, Portogallo, racchiude queste sculture create con modalità ripetitiva. La mostra si intitola Poetic Earth. Alcune delle opere sono state realizzate decenni fa, altre sono state create in situ, proprio in questo spazio a forma di foglia.
View of the exhibition “Anna Maria Maiolino. Poetic Earth”,...
View of the exhibition “Anna Maria Maiolino. Poetic Earth”,...
By Betty Ann Brown "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—Sol LeWitt Dean De Cocker creates richly conceived, exquisitely crafted, and visually delightful artworks that shuttle between abstraction and conceptual representation. He has long been drawn to machines, from bicycles to motorcycles, cars to airplanes, and formal echoes of these devices appear in his current body of work, exhibited at the Visual Arts Center in the small Central California town of Visalia. Welcome to the...
Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here. Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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By Victoria Thomas Photographer and ceramic artist Catherine (Cathy) Opie first shocked and rocked the fine art world with her self-portraits during the late 1990s. Today, her decades of work — often termed confessional — now serve as context for the far more enigmatic Holding Blue installation, on view at Regen Projects through July 3. The Los Angeles-based artist identifies as a leather dyke, lesbian cowboy, an elder, and as "Mama Cathy," with a mustachioed male alter-ego named Bo. Opie is...
“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...
By Victoria Thomas There's something about a hanging. Whether legal or not, the visual experience seems mythic, supernatural, theatrical, and ritualistic, versus the efficiency of a swift kill. If local authorities greenlight the killing, it's called a hanging. If they don't, the hanging is extrajudicial, and it's called a lynching. Anyone with even the scantiest grasp of American history will know that our country has a sordid romance with lynching — a romance which persists. And unless...
