March 8, 2013 panel discussion at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, featuring Archivist and historian Jason Scott, and Wolfgang Staehle founder of The Thing BBS in conversation with Digital Conservator Ben Fino-Radin.

Families standing in the flooded Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, holding photos of their disappeared, 1983. Photo by Daniel García.

Raymond Roussel

Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz by Cynthia Carr
Illustrated Hardcover, 624 pages
Published by Bloomsbury USA
ISBN 1596915331 (ISBN13: 9781596915336)
$35

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There's a roundtable at Housing Works Bookstore this week put on by OWS Arts & Labor called “Art Writing as Craft, Labor, and Art.” It harks back to the time when critics were also called “art workers,” a term that encompassed everyone in the art world system.

*Invitation to take part in the
“Celebration of the Living (who reflect upon death)”
3rd edition, November 2, 2012*

10am New York; 11am Buenos Aires; 12pm São Paulo; 3pm London; 4pm Cairo,
Rome; 5pm Addis Ababa; 9pm Phnom Penh; 10pm Shanghai

In early November people in many parts of the world celebrate the Day of

Shell Blocks Employee Access to Activist Website

http://murderisbad.com

71,010 employees blocked from tweeting Oprah about Supreme Court murder case

Houston, TX (October 2, 2012) — Early Monday morning, 71,010 Shell employees received an email from the company's "Grassroots Employee Empowerment Division" providing information on Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, a pivotal human rights case being argued in the U.S. Supreme Court. The email contained links to news stories, as well as a tool to help employees tweet their feelings about the case at key US news anchors (and Oprah Winfrey).

The only thing is, Shell has no "Grassroots Employee Empowerment Division," and they don't want publicity for the case. The email was in fact the work of an activist group called People Against Legalizing Murder (PALM), who received the list of Shell emails from what they believe to be a group of disaffected employees. (A similar leak occurred two years ago.)

Within minutes of the email being sent out, Shell internally blocked the site, preventing employees from accessing it.