Emily May Gives a Hollaback! Against Street Harassment
Emily May offered, “Street harassment will be with us a long as there are streets. It’s as old as the hills.”
Martin O’Malley: Where Is He on the Environment?
The Baltimore Sun has a long history of editorials calling into question O’Malley’s lack of political will around hard environmental challenges — particularly those that could damage his standing with donors and specific constituencies.
Aviation’s Poisoned Air: Aerotoxic Syndrome
The scariest piece of the whole equation is that the toxins being ingested by pilots can result in “cognitive deficits,” thereby putting the safety of the whole plane in jeopardy.
Campus SaVE Act Responds to College Campus Sexual Violence
There is an important backstory to the fight for protecting students from sexual violence. It dates back to 1986, when 19-year-old student Jeanne Clery was raped and murdered in her dormitory room at Lehigh University.
Shifting Sands: New Dynamics in the Bronx Art Scene
The dialogue went far deeper than a mere discussion of the current landscape of the Bronx art scene. It raised questions, and some hackles, about competing community needs, gentrification, constituencies that are too frequently powerless, and big money.
American Petroleum Institute Ads Target Smog Rules
The American Petroleum Institute is disseminating a series of ads that have an Orwellian quality about them.
“Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life”
Adriana Zavala, guest curator, qualified Kahlo’s home as an “extension of her personal cosmology,” saying, “There are still things to learn about Kahlo.”
2016 Presidential Election: The Candidates On Climate Change
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson doesn’t see global warming as a concern because, “There’s always going to be either cooling or warming going on.”
Ellen Weider: Drypoints in a Digital Age
Weider is preoccupied with an examination of domestic objects. Her visual terrain is repeatedly populated with diaristic contemplations of ordinary furniture: dressers, chairs, tables, beds.
Fracking New York: It’s Not Over ‘Till It’s Over
There are approximately forty fracking infrastructure projects in various stages of approval in New York State.
