Turkey-Syria Deadly Earthquake Damages Cultural Sites

February 7, 2023

Good morning. ☁️ A 7.8-magnitude earthquake — and dozens of aftershocks — claimed the lives of thousands in Turkey and northern Syria, and displaced many others. It has also damaged millennia-old cultural sites in both countries, as we report today. It's a natural disaster on a scale not seen for decades in the region, and it's heartbreaking to witness.

Also today: Natalie Haddad on the dark history behind the German Grotesque style, Mebrak Tareke on Miguel Calderón's witty institutional critique, and visual artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka explains why he's done spoon-feeding non-Native viewers. As usual, there's much more.

— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor

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