Good morning. Not immediately after the election but a few days later, I felt a sinister calm overtake my various feeds, not unlike the ominous stillness I sensed growing up in Miami right before a hurricane hit.
Good morning. Not immediately after the election but a few days later, I felt a sinister calm overtake my various feeds, not unlike the ominous stillness I sensed growing up in Miami right before a hurricane hit. The mixture of reality shock, resignation, and urge to take to the streets was temporarily stultifying, yielding only a flood of memes that are among the darkest we’ve seen in a while. Because the images we share on the internet are reflective of a given moment in our visual and collective culture, Staff Reporter Isa Farfan has rounded them up for us along with some much-needed comedic commentary below.
But another Trump presidency isn’t the only scary news, and there is a major story worth your reading time today: Yelena Ambartsumian’s report on the removal of photos of an Armenian monument in Artsakh from Wikimedia Commons under Azerbaijani copyright laws. It’s a testament to the ways in which regimes of oppression control not just tangible heritage but also memory.
Read about a UN exhibition altered to remove pro-Palestine messages, this year’s DOC NYC film festival lineup, a Tamara de Lempicka show at the de Young Museum, and more — and take care of yourselves this week. — Valentina Di Liscia, News Editor | |
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| | | Images of “We Are Our Mountains,” an Armenian monument in occupied Artsakh, have disappeared from Wikimedia Commons in the months since Azerbaijan’s invasion. Yelena Ambartsumian |
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| | | | As we settle into whatever we are all settling into, memes reveal how this election inextricably linked pop culture and American politics. | Isa Farfan |
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