Garden’s of Delight at Pulp, Holyoke, MA.
“… in the 1970s, [Harmony] Hammond was an organizer of lesbian group exhibitions and a founder of the feminist gallery A.I.R as well as Heresies magazine” – Johanna Fateman on Whitney Biennial in 4columns.
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Garden’s of Delight at Pulp, Holyoke, MA.
“… in the 1970s, [Harmony] Hammond was an organizer of lesbian group exhibitions and a founder of the feminist gallery A.I.R as well as Heresies magazine” – Johanna Fateman on Whitney Biennial in 4columns.
Kesner Pharel, one of Haiti’s leading economists, […] wants to talk about what will happen after the crisis ends, and how Haitians living in South Florida and elsewhere can help the country rebuild.
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Haitians abroad, he says, account for nearly $4 billion in remittances sent to Haiti. That’s more than the country’s current budget for this fiscal year, which stands at about $2.5 billion. It is also more than what the international community provides the government, which is less than $1 billion.
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Pharel acknowledges that most of the money being sent by Haitians living abroad ends up paying for food, schooling, medical care and funerals. Still, amid the sacrifices many are making to ensure there’s a social safety net in the country, there are those with disposable income who can invest.
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Among those in attendance will be representatives of Haiti-based firms looking for an injection of cash as well as the representative of the country’s only investment bank, Profin.
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As part of this year’s theme, “Haiti: Engaging the Progress, migration and remittances,” there will also be a look at the country’s relationship with the neighboring Dominican Republic, which exports about $1.4 billion in food and other goods to Haiti that Haitians often purchase with remittances. Haitians also accounted for some of the $10 billion in remittances the Dominican Republic received last year, according to its central bank. “Some of them have their kids going to school over there, or their family is over there because they cannot come to the States. So they are sending them money also,” said Pharel. The Dominican Republic “is benefiting quite a lot, not only from exporting goods to Haiti but also from Haitian families living over there and that is the reason I said, ‘Hey’ we’ve got to have a conversation with the diaspora.”
Miami Herald, Jacqueline Charles, 040624.
Adam Shatz in LRB on Jean-Pierre Melville (2019) via Shatz’s Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination.
A friend, Melville said, is someone you can call in the middle of the night to “tell him, ‘Be nice, find your revolver and come immediately,’ and to hear him respond, ‘OK, I’m coming.’ Who does that for anyone?”
Artists use of LLCs. Example–Christo, also Radiohead, incorporate each project in a LLC; LLC allows investors to support a project.
NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio released maps for the Eclipse, March 8, 2023, updated April 2, 2024. via NPR with safe eclipse viewing tips.
Hua Hsu in NewYorker on Nirvana’s Nevermind.
“The album would eventually go diamond, selling more than ten million copies in the U.S. alone.”
Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York, 1994.
Haiti Inter, 033124.
i am trying to tell you something about how
rearranging words
rearranges the universe
generation of feeling, Marwa Helal
Moira Donegan in Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics; New York Review and Lithub.
“In this sentence—“that a new majority, adhering to a new ‘doctrinal school,’ could ‘by dint of numbers’ alone expunge their rights”—that “dint of numbers” is a scathing phrase. Justices on the Supreme Court are not as mean to one another as I sometimes, as a court observer, would hope they would be. When there is a pointed line like that, it’s something to pay attention to. She’s saying what we all know, which is that the law does not support this decision, the facts do not support this decision, the will of the people does not support this decision, and the spirit of our constitution does not support this decision. You are not doing it because you have real legitimacy to do it. I think that’s a tricky conundrum we find ourselves in as feminists and as Americans: we’re facing organs of political power that cannot be moved by threats to their legitimacy, that are content to be seen as illegitimate in the eyes of the public so long as they have numbers.”
Cecilia Vicuña, What Is Poetry to You? 1980 or 1990(?)(22:30). 23 minutes. Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. via e-flux