Four years ago, on the weekend before the presidential inauguration, we launched Drawing in a Time of
| Four years ago, on the weekend before the presidential inauguration, we launched Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies, a series of images and texts that appeared every Saturday for two years. The title was derived from a quote by Malcolm X: “I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth—you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear.”Nearly 56 years after Malcolm’s violent death, truth is splintered and fear has filled in the cracks. The inauguration on Wednesday, 14 days after an attempted coup, can’t come quickly enough. — Thomas Micchelli, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend | |
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| | Trump’s Last Act The most incandescent of invectives now feel like simple statements of fact. Thomas Micchelli |
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| Rudy Burckhardt’s Innocent Eye Burckhardt was never surreptitious; he did not hide his camera, and his subjects often knew they were being photographed. John Yau |
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| Poems in the Language of Death Paul Celan’s truest homeland, paradoxically, was the German language — the language of the Nazis who imprisoned him in a forced labor camp and murdered his parents. Mark Scroggins |
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| Required Reading This week, Lorna Simpson’s Rihanna take, a fascism historian gives us some perspective, unlocking Bitcoins, Lou Stovall, archived Parler videos from the DC insurrection, and more. Hrag Vartanian |
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