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As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. July 15, 2021 Production still from the Art21 "New York Close Up" film, "Adam Milner Takes Care of the Details." © Art21, Inc. 2021. If you happen to be near the South Pacific Playground in Brooklyn, keep your eyes peeled for a 2003 Silver Honda CRV. It belongs to someone named Conor, and if you text him (419-971-1233), he’ll direct you right to it. Brooklyn not your home base? Nea...

Ending Anonymity: Why The WEF’s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens The Future Of Privacy Published: July 11, 2021 With many focusing on tomorrow’s Cyber Polygon exercise, less attention has been paid to the World Economic Forum’s real ambitions in cybersecurity – to create a global organization aimed at gutting even the possibility of anonymity online. With the governments of the US, UK and Israel on board, along with some of the world’s most powerful corporations, it is impo...

But there was something else several reporters thought was much more intriguing: a description of a meeting between Carter Page, a Trump aide, and Igor Sechin, a longtime Putin collaborator and head of the Russian energy giant Rosneft. The dossier reported that Sechin “was so keen to lift personal and corporate western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered PAGE/TRUMP’s associates the brokerage of up to a 19% (privatised) stake in Rosneft in return. PAGE had expressed inter...

G. Allen Johnson July 9, 2021Updated: July 9, 2021, 10:34 pm Model and actor Ambra Gutierrez (left), who accused film mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, talks with Ronan Farrow in the HBO documentary “Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes.” Photo: HBO Ronan Farrow’s explosive New Yorker article detailing sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein helped topple the film mogul. Within a month of the article’s publication in October 2017, more than 80 women had acc...

Private Spies Are the Puppetmasters of the Modern Political Smear Colin Freeman, The Telegraph, June 4, 2021 Given that most Western newspaper readers know little of Kazakhstan beyond the Borat movies, feuds within its ruling elite might not be expected to get much coverage. Yet in 2008, numerous column inches were devoted to a vicious power struggle between President Nursultan Nazarbayev and his son-in-law Rakhat Aliyev, alleging corruption on a massive scale in Nazarbayev’s regime. Kazakhs...

A former Obama speech writer travels the world to uncover how we’re seen, and whether it matters

RSVP in advance for Zoom link The final elements of the massive multi-site and multi-project exhibition The Space(s) Between (launched in March by the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) Galleries of Contemporary Art and the University of Denver’s Vicki Myhren Gallery), are rolling out in June in spaces as far afield as Walsenburg and as close as downtown Denver. They include billboard art, installations, digital works and, in one case, an interactive hunt for a real chunk of ...

Awards and Events 4 Add to collection Berlin agency named ADC 100th Agency of the Year and takes Designism Cube DDB Germany Berlin received a number of highest honors in the historic ADC 100th Annual Awards, announced today as part of The One Club for Creativity’s global Creative Week 2021. The agency was awarded the highly-coveted ADC Black Cube for Best of Show for The Uncensored Library, working with MediaMonks Hilversum and Blockworks London on behalf of Reporters Without Borders.  The ...

From the Trump Pee Tape to a Kazakhstan coup, Barry Meier's new book Spooked exposes a dodgy dirt-dishing empire

Rhodes talks with Rich and Jarrod about his new book, the Iran deal and his own definition of Zionism