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Tag Archives: October 2022
Cover: The New York Times Magazine – Oct 9, 2022
Risking Everything to Offer Abortions Across State Lines
Doctors and midwives in blue states are working to get abortion pills into red states — setting the stage for a historic legal clash.
What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay
No greater challenge faces humanity than reducing emissions without backsliding into preindustrial poverty. One tiny country is leading the way.
The Climate Novelist Who Transcends Despair
Lydia Millet believes the natural world can help us become more human.
Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’
This week: Georgina Adam joins Ben Luke to discuss the intriguing story of the bankrupt entrepreneur and art collector, the museum scholar and a host of Old Master paintings given new attributions.
We talk to Suzanne Pagé, the curator of Monet-Mitchell, an exhibition bringing together the Impressionist Claude Monet and the post-war American abstract painter Joan Mitchell, at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
And this episode’s Work of the Week is a 1583 painting of Elizabeth I of England, known as the Sieve Portrait, which is one of the highlights of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York’s exhibition The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. The show’s curators, Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker, tell us about this richly layered picture.
Monet-Mitchell, Joan Mitchell retrospective, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, until 27 February 2023. Joan Mitchell: Paintings, 1979-85, David Zwirner, New York, 3 November-17 December.The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10 October-8 January 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Stories: European Energy Crisis, Poland-U.S. Nuclear Weapons, Iran Protests
The energy crisis in Europe continues. Plus: Poland suggests hosting US nuclear weapons, the international community responds to protests in Iran and do we still consider books good value for money?
Front Page: The New York Times – October 7, 2022
Blunt Criticism of Russian Army Signals New Challenge for Putin
An official in a Russian-occupied region of Ukraine suggested Russia’s defense minister should shoot himself because of his army’s failings, an unusually blunt and public rebuke of Kremlin leadership.
In Global Slowdown, China Holds Sway Over Countries’ Fates
The lender of choice for many nations over the past decade, Beijing now has the power to cut them off, lend more or forgive some of their debts.
Cover Preview: Art Review Magazine – October 2022
In ArtReview’s October issue – out now – Chris Fite-Wassilak profiles Jeffrey Gibson, the artist whose works unpick and repattern mythologies around the depiction of native cultures: ‘Dolled up in intricate beadwork and bright kitsch plumes, Gibson’s flamboyant artefacts mock the anthropological impulse, while buzzingly suggesting new rituals’.
Renewal can be a fraught process, as ruangrupa found at this year’s documenta fifteen. ArtReview’s Mark Rappolt and J.J. Charlesworth spoke to the collective’s farid rakun and Ade Darmawan about their hopes for and the results of ruangrupa’s artistic direction of documenta fifteen – and what happens next. Their work confounded many assumptions about how this major survey exhibition should be organised – and who and what it should be for. One thing was certain: they “had to fight for every inch”.
It’s a story that has dominated recent cultural discourse – and is touched on by Naom Chomsky, interviewed by Nika Dubrovsky for ArtReview October. Chomsky, a keen admirer of David Graeber’s work, discusses with Dubrovsky the late anthropologist’s last project, neoliberalism and democracy, Western empiricism and imperialism, free speech, Roe v. Wade, and the war in Ukraine.
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Oct 7, 2022
Entanglement snares prize
Trio helped launch new quantum revolution
Ancient DNA pioneer Svante Pääbo wins Nobel
By sequencing ancient hominins’ DNA, Pääbo explored “what makes us uniquely human”
NASA asteroid test strikes a blow for planetary defense
Observers study debris from DART’s crash into a space rock and wait to see how much the asteroid was deflected
Top New Yorker Cartoons
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Oct 6, 2022
Deflecting asteroids is not enough — we need to know when they approach
After NASA’s DART asteroid-deflection experiment, a fully funded telescope for detecting space rocks is an equally pressing priority.
The oceans store more carbon than thought — but not enough to save the planet
Although the marine ‘carbon sink’ is bigger than expected, it is still inadequate to keep global warming at bay.
Electric cars could break the grid if future drivers stick to today’s routines
The rise in electric-vehicle ownership could overload the electric grid unless charging becomes a daytime activity.
Preview: The Economist Magazine – Oct 8, 2022
A new macroeconomic era is emerging. What will it look like?
A great rebalancing between governments and central banks is under way.
For months there has been turmoil in financial markets and growing evidence of stress in the world economy. You might think that these are just the normal signs of a bear market and a coming recession. But, as our special report this week lays out, they also mark the painful emergence of a new regime in the world economy—a shift that may be as consequential as the rise of Keynesianism after the second world war, and the pivot to free markets and globalisation in the 1990s.
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