The art group Asco was like an errant comet that hit L.A. — a performance group that shaved their eyebrows, staged faux film stills and tagged LACMA. But disputes over attribution could affect how Asco’s work is displayed and its story ultimately told.

latimes.com

These '70s East L.A. Chicano artists are having a major revival — but infighting threatens their...

The ’70s art group Asco was obscure until a LACMA exhibition turned its members into art world darlings. Now, they are locked in a struggle over attribution.

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NY Friends: For the last 5 years I've been working on a campaign to bring public banking to NY. We're fighting big Wall Street opposition but have a chance to advance our bill next week. Please take literally 2 minutes and use the tool below to email your state legislators.

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NYS Community Equity Agenda

@EquityAgendaNY

May 5

URGENT ACTION ALERT

The NYS Senate decides NEXT WEEK if they'll advance the NY Public Banking Act to a committee vote. Use this tool to email your legislators and tell them it's time to put public $ to use for the public good, not Wall St. greed.

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Wow, CDMX cops raided a Coca-Cola bootlegging laboratory

proceso.com.mx

Desmantelan sitio donde clonaban Coca-Cola y aseguran más de 100 cajas con botellas para venta

Según el vocero de la institución, Ulises Lara, el sitio fue descubierto durante un cateo en seguimiento a una carpeta de investigación iniciada por el delito de encubrimiento por receptación.

true story: one of the only pieces of my own writing i've put on a syllabus

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@maxpearl

May 2

With the writer strike raging, it seems appropriate to repost @gavinmuellerphd's history of automated art, and the artists who rose up against it (from my long defunct magazine, Cluster Mag) web.archive.org/web/2014092405

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@maxpearl

May 2

When the phonograph came along, musicians bombed movie theaters that used recorded music instead of live players. Just saying

With the writer strike raging, it seems appropriate to repost

@gavinmuellerphd

's history of automated art, and the artists who rose up against it (from my long defunct magazine, Cluster Mag)

web.archive.org

Art Without Humans - The Cluster Mag

When movie houses bought phonographs, they were bombed by the orchestra. Now that software is making the DJ obsolete we download Serato and screw the world.

Polish May Day poster from Roman Cieślewicz, 1957.

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Typical West Coast - East Coast correspondence

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@maxpearl

Apr 28

“Chapa remembers hearing that BLOOD IN BLOOD OUT became the most stolen tape at Blockbuster ever.” Great piece on the legacy of a Chicano cult classic

@carlos_film

latimes.com

Disney neglected it. Critics panned it. 'Blood In Blood Out' became an L.A. classic anyway

The film stumbled at the box office 30 years ago but was saved from obscurity by Latino audiences, who reclaimed it as a cornerstone of their representation in cinema.

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@maxpearl

Apr 27

Crazy news out of AMLO's Mexico: “The armed forces will now have more decision-making power in the National Council on Humanities, Science and Technology than the actual constituents of the scientific community"

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Aristegui Noticias

@AristeguiOnline

Apr 27

Y ahora, Militares decidirán sobre ciencia y su presupuesto

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@maxpearl

Apr 26

Behold: the "upside-down house" or "inverted pyramid" of Ecatepec, Mexico—a feat of vernacular engineering

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@maxpearl

Apr 26

Am I the only one for whom the term "lyrical" is actually kind of a literary red flag?

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@maxpearl

Apr 25

Anna Cassel, "No. 19." 1913, oil on canvas

Here’s the statement from New York City’s three library systems about Mayor Eric Adams’s proposed budget cuts: “We would need to suspend Saturday service at a number of locations… and completely eliminate Sunday service.”

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@maxpearl

Apr 21

The new supermarket by my house has set a world record for gentrified seltzer options

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@maxpearl

Apr 21

What bothers is me is not that it's AI-generated but that it is simply not a good photo

artforum.com

Sony World Photography Award Winner Reveals Entry Was AI-Generated, Rejects Prize

German photographer Boris Eldagsen, who won the Creative category of the prestigious Sony World Photography Award, has refused the prize on the grounds that he used an artificial intelligence image...

Hey, we invaded your country, super-charged sectarian violence, fostered a terror group in our prisons that almost took over, intervened again, and left you with an ongoing threat of assassinations, kidnappings and intimidation. BUT... there's this. So let's call it square.

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Samantha Power

@PowerUSAID

Apr 19

Great to hear from Basma & Jad about the new friends they’re making in Iraq through Ahlan Simsim—a @USAID & @SesameWorkshop early learning activity that promotes inclusion, respect, and understanding by showing children from all different backgrounds coming together.

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@maxpearl

Apr 14

Coatcheck season is officially OVER folks

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@maxpearl

Apr 13

*watches a movie about LA* are you suggesting… there’s a sordid reality hiding behind California’s thin veneer of placid perfection

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@maxpearl

Apr 11

Wayne Thiebaud, 'Delicatessen Counter,' 1962

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@maxpearl

Apr 8

I have decided not to engage any further with the Picasso discourse. Except for $1 a word or above

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Crazy factoid: BBC DJs used encoded musical messages to coordinate resistance bombings during WWII

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@maxpearl

Apr 5

Can’t believe I’m reading a history book about a scene that I personally participated in

hey, it's working - they've delayed the hearing - please use the link to email the mayor and make calls tomorrow actionnetwork.org/letters/people

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The People's Plan #PeoplesBudget #CareNotCuts

@PeoplesPlanNYC

Mar 7

@NYCMayor is cutting libraries, schools, pre-K for 3-year-olds, CUNY & core social services. Unless New Yorkers fight back, there will be major cuts by June 2023. Email the Mayor & your Council Member TODAY to demand #CareNotCuts! We want a #PeoplesBudget! tinyurl.com/peoplesbudget2

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@maxpearl

Apr 4

Then there's ¡Ah chinga! for when you realize you left the stove on at home

In honor of today’s English-language release of This is Not Miami from

@NewDirections

, the good people at

@european_review

brought my essay about Fernanda Melchor out from behind the paywall. Please check it out! 📚🚣🏾🎍

europeanreviewofbooks.com

A sangre fría

Fernanda Melchor’s prose hits you square in the face, but its lyricism works differently in Spanish. On Veracruzano modernism, lyrical slang, and worlds so new that style falls apart.

In love with these Miyoko Ito paintings, which seem to hum like a high-voltage cable nybooks.com/online/2023/04

Trying to explain "y la 🧀" to a gringo

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@maxpearl

Mar 30

Gone are the days where you could get out of a bribe by insisting you don't have cash

restofworld.org

Mexicans say some police officers are taking bribes with mobile payment services

Victims of extortion say reimbursements are extremely difficult since apps and banks say they handed over their cards voluntarily.

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@maxpearl

Mar 30

Martin Lewis, "Spring Night, Greenwich Village," 1930

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@maxpearl

Mar 28

Just sent my next essay off to copyedit 🍾

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens

@PP_Rubens

Mar 27

Natives pour molten gold into mouths of greedy Spaniards. Which they totally deserved. Theodor de Bry, a Protestant, was none too keen on Spain & its Inquisition. And today is his day.