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While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture. Since adopting the party-crashing persona of Mlle Bourgeoise Noire in the early 1980s, Lorraine O’Grady has blurred the lines between performance, politics and conceptual art. This career retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum (5 March–18 July) focuses on 12 ma...

Erkans Field Diary Primary Menu Advertisements First Draft by Chris Looft  prepared for protests by Russia’s political opposition last month, a search of the “Red Square” geotag on Instagram revealed a peculiar sight: a wall of uncanny human faces, maybe too symmetrical to be real. This offered a clue as to one of the novel techniques possibly being used to stifle dissent, push pro-Kremlin narratives and disrupt organic Russian-language online convers...

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This might not go over well with Jets fans. For the first time in his career, ESPNs Mel Kiper Jr. included trades in one of his mock drafts. It just so happens that the very first trade involves the No. 2 pick. Kiper is predicting that the New York Jets will trade down with the Falcons, moving back to fourth overall while Atlanta takes highly-touted quarterback Zach Wilson. Heres Kiper on what the Falcons will need to send New York to pick at No. 2: So for Atlanta to move up two spots, its goin...

NFL Draft 2021: If Jets don’t want to draft QB like BYU’s Zach Wilson, Ohio State’s Justin Fields, here’s what ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. thinks they should do Updated Feb 25, 2021; Facebook Share It’s entirely possible that Jets general manager Joe Douglas gives quarterback Sam Darnold one more shot in 2021, the final year of his rookie contract. And if that happens, Douglas would be wise to at least consider trading out of the second overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft. Sure enough, t...

Journalists and the looming superstorm of climate disinformation The authors is Covering Climate Now’s deputy director. TEXAS HAD ONLY JUST FROZEN OVER. In the wake of a devastating winter storm, millions in the state were without power and struggling to find warmth. They boiled snow for water; some were dying. And against all evidence the anti-climate political right was grousing about windmills and blaming a Green New Deal that doesn’t yet exist. “Unbeknownst to most people, the Green N...

A disturbing glance at the powers-that-be. Tue Feb 23, 2021 In a matter of just five days, two separate incidents demonstrated the collusion used by the powers-that-be to control thought. On Feb. 5, Mike Lindell, who founded MyPillow, released a two-hour documentary, "Absolute Proof," providing detailed evidence of fraud during the Presidential election. On Feb. 10, the House of Representatives impeachment managers showed a video of the bedlam at the Capitol on Jan. 6, bedlam th...

Facebooks news ban experiment is almost over. Heres what weve learnt Posted TueTuesday 23 updated WedWednesday 24 FebFebruary 2021 at 3:12am Australian news sites have seen a drop in traffic due to the news ban, with links shared on Facebook pages down 80 per cent. ( Print text only Cancel Its now six days since the most popular social media platform in the country, Facebook, decided Australians could no longer view or share links to news websites. Key points: New publishers have seen a drop i...

New digital industry code to limit spread of misinformation Tech companies including Twitter, Google, Facebook and Microsoft adopt new voluntary code to help prevent spread of disinformation and misinformation A new industry code has been launched aimed at reducing misinformation on digital platforms. It comes in the wake of the Digital Platforms inquiry, conducted by the Australian Communications and Consumer Commission (ACCC), into the dominance of the platforms and the News Media Bargaining ...

Had her life been more conventional, Lorraine O’Grady would have been, that Thursday in June 1980, at Wellesley College for her 25th class reunion. Instead, she was donning a dress hand-stitched from 180 pairs of white gloves — accessorized with a tiara, sash and cat-o’-nine-tails — and heading to the gallery Just Above Midtown, to carry out a guerrilla-theater intervention. O’Grady, a daughter of Jamaican immigrants in Boston, had a picaresque itinerary already. An economics graduate...