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...kind of change called reformism that has not seemed interesting or sexy for artists or critics for a long time.”Whatever societal reforms it might inspire, “Ad Usum” also presents a more concrete possibility for change, at least within the sphere of the University. As Art Forum curator José Falconi notes, “Harvard is not a recognized place for contemporary art. It really means nothing. That being said, we’re tying to change that, at least at the Rockefeller Center.”Reyes concurs, saying...
Anna was a great asset to Russia’s dwindling public sphere. Even her friends say she was not easy to bear, but harsh critics hardly are. Born in New York to Soviet diplomats from Ukraine, she decided to study in the motherland, graduating as a journalist from Moscow State University in 1980. Almost immediately, she focused on the disfranchised: the old, the poor, and refugees. She once declared she aimed at “reviving Russia’s pre-revolutionary tradition of writing about our social problems...
Amidst religious tensions, guerrilla warfare, and human rights violations, Anna was the only journalist unafraid of asking questions and writing answers. She brought the Russian military excesses to the Russian public sphere. Almost raped, almost deported, and almost killed several times, she reported summary executions, torture, and starvation. During the famous Moscow theatre kidnapping in 2002 that ended in tragedy, the Chechen terrorists only trusted Anna to mediate with the police authorities...
Paradoxically, the writer and her subject were doomed to the same fate: Anna became Chechnya. In the outskirts of the public sphere, silence still reigns autocratic and unchallenged...
...economics may be pretty conventional, but in the social sphere, Chile's agnostic, no-longer-married-mother President Michele Bachelet is revolutionizing this traditionally conservative Catholic country. The government is tackling the problem of teenage pregnancy by handing out morning-after pills to 14-year olds without their parents' permission. A bill to allow terminally ill patients to choose a "merciful death" was recently introduced to the legislature, and there is growing momentum behind calls for a civil-union law that would extend the legal benefits of marriage to gay and unwed heterosexual couples. The legal system is struggling under...