Tributes to Uvalde Shooting Victims

June 8, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤️ Today, Texans pay moving tributes to victims of the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, a documentary about the desperate state of New York City’s subway, reviews of Lorraine O’Grady, Zoe Beloff, and much more.

— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief

Through Art, Texans Memorialize Victims of Uvalde Shooting

From murals to a front-yard installation featuring rows of backpacks, the community is channeling its grief and rage at gun control inaction. | Elaine Velie

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Lorraine O’Grady Still Won’t Play It Safe

Much like her writing, O’Grady’s photomontages pressure binaries until something other, something “both/and” emerges. | Ela Bittencourt

Scenes From a Refugee Childhood

As a coming-of-age memoir during World War II, Zoe Beloff’s Reminiscences of a Refugee Childhood is a document of a generation rapidly fading from living memory. | Chelsea Haines

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The Value of the "Anchor Artist"

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A Frightening Doc About the NYC Subway

End of the Line captures five years of failed efforts to fix the city’s disastrously bad train infrastructure. | Dan Schindel

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