George Kafka
@gkafka.bsky.social
Interdependent architecture/design curator, writer, editor | georgekafka.co.uk | London
Bad photos of the Gregg Bordowitz show at Camden Art Centre - for me an essential artist (the poem is H.D.)
January 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Bad photos of the Gregg Bordowitz show at Camden Art Centre - for me an essential artist (the poem is H.D.)
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Today I learned that there is a Wikimedia Commons category "animations of shoes" with 86 gifs, all but one of which are rotating animations created by a guy named "Karl Martini" who calls his signature rotation style the "Martini Spin." I will never be bored on this website
January 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Today I learned that there is a Wikimedia Commons category "animations of shoes" with 86 gifs, all but one of which are rotating animations created by a guy named "Karl Martini" who calls his signature rotation style the "Martini Spin." I will never be bored on this website
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Berlin looms large in the fecund imaginations of the international Anglophone creative class, so in Baffler no. 77, Alex Cocotas examines the microgenre of expat Berliterature.
thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
Breaking Glass | Alex Cocotas
The cosmopolitan creative class has exhausted their bohemian version of Berlin.
thebaffler.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Berlin looms large in the fecund imaginations of the international Anglophone creative class, so in Baffler no. 77, Alex Cocotas examines the microgenre of expat Berliterature.
thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
Good this
On the new episode of our podcast, On the Nose, editor-at-large @peterbeinart.bsky.social speaks with Mahmoud Muna, Matthew Teller, and Juliette Touma, three of the editors of the new anthology Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture.
Voices from Gaza
Peter Beinart speaks with the editors of the new anthology Daybreak in Gaza .
jewishcurrents.org
January 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Good this
Me when i'm thinking about buildings
January 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Me when i'm thinking about buildings
Short texts on sabotage, with interstitial paintings and subtly interactive web design, nobody does it better than Triple Canopy: canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/sch...
Scheming on a Thing | Triple Canopy
Seven episodes of sabotage. With artwork by Sam Keogh....
canopycanopycanopy.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Short texts on sabotage, with interstitial paintings and subtly interactive web design, nobody does it better than Triple Canopy: canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/sch...
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"The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world." (via The Syllabus Project) quiltindex.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:57 PM
"The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world." (via The Syllabus Project) quiltindex.org
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After having their Schelling Architecture Foundation award rescinded for signing an open letter supporting the Israeli cultural boycott, James Bridle addresses the award’s refusal, Strike Germany, and the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’ artreview.com/james-bridle...
James Bridle: ‘The Denial of Genocide Is on the March Everywhere’
The artist addresses the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’
artreview.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:50 PM
After having their Schelling Architecture Foundation award rescinded for signing an open letter supporting the Israeli cultural boycott, James Bridle addresses the award’s refusal, Strike Germany, and the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’ artreview.com/james-bridle...
Detail and display structure of Nilima Sheikh's Shamiana, on display at The Imaginary Institution of India show at Barbican
November 19, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Detail and display structure of Nilima Sheikh's Shamiana, on display at The Imaginary Institution of India show at Barbican