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Cabinet is a quarterly magazine of arts and culture that believes curiosity is the very basis of ethics. www.cabinetmagazine.org

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In her soundscape for issue 70, Rosie Oliver layers extracts from “Webster’s Timeline History: Grumbling, 415 BC–2007” with grumbling-related audio: buzzing bees, somber organ music, and the menacing thwap-thwap of helicopter blades. Listen here: www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/ol...
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Artist Project / Grumbling | Rosie Oliver
For more information about this recording, read Rosie Oliver’s review of Webster’s Timeline History: Grumbling, 415 BC–2007 here.
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We are pleased to share that Shahram Khosravi’s article “Defeat as Method” for issue 71 of Cabinet magazine has been translated into Arabic by Al Janoub: The Palestinian Journal of Liberation Studies for their sixth issue, “writing the unwritten.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/information/...
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Al Janoub, no. 6 (Fall 2026), babelwad.com Read Shahram Khosravi’s “Defeat as Method,” from Cabinet no. 71, here.
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
NOW UNLOCKED! From our issue on gray literature, Sally O’Reilly’s essay examines “a literal peripheral”—wallpaper—by weaving together personal memory and the contextless scraps of information presented in “Webster’s Timeline History: Wallpaper, 1768–2007.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/or...
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Wallpaper | Sally O’Reilly
A memoir
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Will Ozempic finish off the American buffet once and for all? In our latest Ingestion column, Thea Applebaum Licht remembers the rise of the “smorgy” and finds an unexpected parallel to its variety, temptation, and excess in the semaglutide era. cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/li...
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Ingestion / Tempting the Temperate | Thea Applebaum Licht
The smorgasbord in the age of Ozempic
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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Alas, only in German, but this article on a place in Berlin that you can pay to make your book collection look thoroughly read (bent corners, broken spines, beverage marks; premium beverage marks and annotations are extra upgrades) is breaking my brain and needs sharing.
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Schamgefühle wegen ungelesener Bücher im Regal? Das muss nicht sein
Die "Book Handling Agency" macht in Berlin Eselsohren und Absinth-Flecken jeden Band zum Monument der Gelehrsamkeit. Was steckt dahinter?
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
@latimes.com cites George Prochnik’s article from issue 41, “The Orchestra: Listening to Sirens,” a meditation on sirens and their corrupting mythological allusions. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/41/pr...
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The Orchestra | George Prochnik
Listening to sirens
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Haunted DCU Library 👻 @dculibrary.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Me: I really love my job they actually haven't invented a better career Scholars in Berlin: bet shorturl.at/SxQOy @dublincityuni.bsky.social @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social
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Want books to look well-read? Now there’s a service for that
An idea to make books look a bit more used, once jokingly proposed by one Myles na gCopaleen, has been made real in German capital
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I wrote a book that’s part bio of the troupe behind this photo, part Germany’s history fr above, part reflection on how we relate to risk & ruin. Preorder now from the wonderful @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social & support small publishers that give it their all secure.cabinetmagazine.org/store/produc...
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
On the 24th, a team of writers, musicians, & artists will gather at 10 am in Berlin to attempt to make a musical in 10 hours flat. To prepare, we are revisiting Sally O’Reilly’s “On Why Soup Is Bad for Diurnal Rhythms,” written in 23 hours and 23 minutes. cabinetmagazine.org/issues/44/or...
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On Why Soup Is So Bad for Diurnal Rhythms | Sally O’Reilly
The opposite of art
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
To prepare for our Book Handling Agency event on Sunday (more information about that on the site), we revisit Josh Kun’s essay on his mother’s college marginalia in a copy of D. H. Lawrence’s 1923 “Studies in Classic American Literature.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/31/ku...
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Studies in Classic American Literature by Rita Kamins | Josh Kun
Reading with my mother
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
With so many completely ridiculous bookshelf photos and news, check out this brilliant Berlin happening (as satirical as it's full of gravitas) organized by @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social to make books look read and re-read inside and out www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/chaou...
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Participatory Event / “The Book Handling Agency: The Berlin Session,” with Michel Chaouli, Jeff Dolven, Merve Emre, Tom McCarthy, and company | Cabinet
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Please join us in Berlin for an evening with New York’s fabled Book Handling Agency, an organization whose roster of scholars have been trained to transform your unread books into artifacts that will stand as monuments to your cultural erudition and discernment. cabinetmagazine.org/events/chaou...
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Participatory Event / “The Book Handling Agency: The Berlin Session,” with Michel Chaouli, Jeff Dolven, Merve Emre, Tom McCarthy, and company | Cabinet
Date: 12 July 2026, 6:30–8:30 pmLocation: Books of Others, back room of Barettino Bar, Reuterstr. 59, 12047 Berlin (map)Free. No RSVP necessary. Cash payments only for book-handling services Hosted…
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Mathilde Montpetit @mathildegm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Next month, under the auspices of @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social, Sally O'Reilly et al. will have 10 hours to make a musical about the history of hurrying. As proof of concept, she managed to answer over 10 questions from @return2sanders.bsky.social in 10 minutes:
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Hurry! 3:09–3:19, Wednesday, June 10, 2026
A bit over 10 questions in 10 minutes on the musical Hurry, 591 BC–2007
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Berlin readers! Cabinet will have a table at Miss Read on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Come and say hello, buy a book, confess your fears about the heat wave, or simply tut-tut about nothing in particular. . . www.silent-green.net/en/programme...
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MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival 2026
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Book galleys, with tons of illustrations thanks to my favorite people at @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social! Can’t fault the politics of deadly spectacle for not being ever timely
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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
On gray literature, Webster’s Timeline History books, and computerized curation: "The First Tomato to Know Everything" @sosallyo.bsky.social @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social (Plus- Mother's Day proclaimed) Hold on to the human: roughlydaily.com/2026/05/09/e...
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Imagine being named John Smith. Now imagine being the avant-garde filmmaker of that name, maker of “The Girl Chewing Gum” and other gems. Now imagine being asked to write on “Webster’s Timeline History: John Smith, 1580–2007.” cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/sm...
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1996: A Most Productive Year | John Smith
An overachiever remembers
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
In our latest issue, former New Zealand Poet Laureate David Eggleton visits the city of Bristol via antipodal Dunedin in a truly psycho geographical romp. “Let a medley of quotations serve to evoke this aura of sinister criminality clinging to … Bristol.” cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/eg...
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A Guide to Bristol from Antipodal Dunedin | David Eggleton
A truly psycho geographical romp
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
With bombs falling on Iran, Shahram Khosravi examines what it means for the defeated of the earth to face their serial losses with “an open face,” as counseled by his father. How can we understand defeat as critique’s ethical point of departure? cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/kh...
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Defeat as Method | Shahram Khosravi
Thinking from within the ruins
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I should also recommend George Prochnik's truly beautiful and brilliant essay in @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social on Freud's trip to America, his doomed quest to meet a porcupine, and more. it's splendid and moving. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/26/pr...
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The Porcupine Illusion | George Prochnik
Freud’s prickly secret
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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 19/03/2026
I can't stop thinking about this 15-year-old @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social essay www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/42/wi...
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Our discussion with Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard about his attempts to force a state investigation into whether repeated statements on Israel’s Channel 14 amount to incitement to genocide, a crime in Israeli law. cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/na...
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
👀 Issue 70 / Gray Literature 👀 featuring David Eggleton, Klara Kofen, Rosie Oliver, Sally O’Reilly, John Smith, Spencer Spencer, and more… cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/in... @sosallyo.bsky.social
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Table of Contents 70 | Cabinet
<em>featuring Sally O’Reilly, John Smith, David Eggleton, Klara Kofen, and more…</em>
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Our discussion with Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard about his attempts to force a state investigation into whether repeated statements on Israel’s Channel 14 amount to incitement to genocide, a crime in Israeli law. cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/na... @michaelsfard.bsky.social
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Inciting Genocide: An Interview with Michael Sfard | Sina Najafi, George Prochnik, and Michael Sfard
The legal case against Israel’s Channel 14
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The arc of desire is frail, and nowhere is this better glimpsed than in the “love lines” of the Yukaghir, which adorn our latest issue’s cover. All articles from issue 69 are now unlocked, just in the very nick of time for Valentine’s Day... cabinetmagazine.org/69
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Carlin Wing’s new book, “Bounce: Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play,” will be published next week by MIT Press: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255321... In the meantime, you can read her essay from issue 56, “Episodes in the Life of Bounce,” here: www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/56/wi...
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Episodes in the Life of Bounce | Carlin Wing
Playing with a rubber ball
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
If @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social says so, it's official! SO excited--they're a writer's dream to work with!
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
New article: Sanders Issac Bernstein (return2sanders.bsky.social) investigates the construction threats to Berlin’s Memorial to the Sinti and Roma of Europe Murdered under National Socialism and the long struggle by Sinti and Roma for public recognition of what was done to them by the German state.
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Syros wasn’t the only pilgrimage spot that seemed, to the Western eye, to have withered on the vine of ancient vitality. When Melville’s ship reached Palestine, his heart sank: “No country will more quickly dissipate romantic expectations than Palestine.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/ta...
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Against Insularity | McNeil Taylor
Hellenism, Zionism, and the Greek archipelago
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Julian Lucas @jcljules.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
A favorite essay on snow, by Charlie Fox, in @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/59/fo...
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A Mind of Winter | Charlie Fox
The feeling of snow
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
“Its appearance (remaking a field as a map gone blank) lays out a space approximating an empty mind.” A magical essay about snow that finds something deserving in everything said about it or made to mimic it. From the magical @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social, obvs www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/59/fo...
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A Mind of Winter | Charlie Fox
The feeling of snow
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Enjoyed Igor Bezinović’s new film about Gabriele D’Annunzio’s creation of the Italian Regency of Carnaro, founded in 1919 and dissolved in 1920? Check out Reinaldo Laddaga’s article on the Fiume adventure from issue 58: “A City for Poets and Pirates.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/58/la...
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
In light of Serbia’s not-at-all-corrupt deal with Jared Kushner to redevelop the site of the monumental former Army Headquarters in Belgrade, we return to Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss’s history of this extraordinary modernist building, bombed by NATO in 1999. cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/jov...
Bombed-out modernist building
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
“Where Western eyes insist on finding Greece and only Greece, Syros insists on showing us the world.” McNeil Taylor on the Crown Iris protests on Syros and the overlapping fantasies, from within & out, that are called on to define “Greece.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/ta...
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Against Insularity | McNeil Taylor
Hellenism, Zionism, and the Greek Archipelago
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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"Amid this transformation, the walls of Berlin, a city often compared to Babylon, go on talking like the work of so many disembodied hands, delivering messages whose ultimate import we cannot fully comprehend, even as political authorities would prefer us not to see them."
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
In our latest article, Alex Cocotas reflects on Berlin, the effacement of Gaza graffiti, and the writing on the wall. “The dream of the West is to grieve tomorrow for what we could have prevented today.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/cocota...
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In Gaza Dies Your Western Dream | Alex Cocotas
Berlin, Palestine, and the writing on the wall
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Heman Chong’s artist project on the back entrances of embassies, with an introductory essay by Adam Jasper, is now online! www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/68/ch...
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Artist Project / Embassies and Consulates | Heman Chong
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
“When I was a little boy, I liked to pick my nose. In fact, I’ve enjoyed picking my nose for most of my life. This is not something to be proud of, but telling you about my nosepicking brings me to the word bice.” Jonathan Ames on bice from issue 1: cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/ame...
Scientific illustration of byssus-like carbonate of copper.
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Paul Prudence @mrprudence.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
'In 1953, while working a hotel switchboard, a college graduate named Shea Zellweger began a journey of wonder and obsession that would eventually lead to the invention of a radically new notation for logic' @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/we...
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
For our latest Inventory column, Jim Moske explores a beguiling collection of images from the NASA archives: photographs of flameholders, taken mainly in the 1940s and 1950s, which seem like cousins once removed of Dada experimentation. cabinetmagazine.org/issues/69/mo...
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Amanda Feilding wasn’t only a leading propagandist for drilling a hole in one’s head but also an early advocate for therapeutic psychedelics and drug policy reform. She died last month, aged 82. Read Christopher Turner’s article on Feilding from issue 28. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/28/tu...
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Like a Hole in the Head | Christopher Turner
The trepanation-state
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
NEW ARTICLE: James G. Harper and Philip W. Scher discuss German anthropologist Julius Lips’s groundbreaking treatise on African, Indigenous Australian, and Oceanic depictions of foreigners, “The Savage Hits Back, or, The White Man through Native Eyes.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/69/ha...
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Looking Back at the White Man | James G. Harper and Philip W. Scher
The story of Julius Lips
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
In Berlin? Or within one week’s hiking distance? Come visit Cabinet at the Miss Read art book fair next week hosted by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). We will be selling books, magazines, and posters, and would love to meet our readers!
Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival. June 13–15, 2025.
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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"complicity, wrapped in the cloth of remembrance"... Chilling. Makes one think of what Sarah El Bulbeisi has written on the German taboo on Palestinian trauma in a critique, that is urgently relevant to analyses of current German foreign policy and memory politics cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/el_bul...
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Read the statement by Sara Nadal-Melsió—associate director of the Whitney Independent Study Program—regarding the Whitney’s cancellation of “No Aesthetics Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance.” www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/nadal_...
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Statement by ISP Associate Director Regarding the Whitney’s Cancellation of “No Aesthetics Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance” and the ISP Cohort’s Response | Cabinet
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
In “Shoah,” a Jewish barber cuts hair while recounting the atrocities he witnessed during the Holocaust. In “Route 181,” a Palestinian barber cuts hair while describing a massacre of Palestinians during the Nakba. A trial in Paris turned on how to read these two parallel scenes.
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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
As it’s his birthday, please enjoy David Byrne digging into surprising histories of the colour pink in this article for @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social “Needless to say, suggesting that prison cells be painted pink was not an immediately popular idea…” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/11/by...
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Colors / Pink | David Byrne
Not so sweet after all
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
“What sort of a life is it if we are to rest in shifts and not together as a whole proletariat? It is no holiday if you have to have it alone.” On this May Day, why not read Tony Wood’s “Labor Days: Reinventing the Workweek in the Soviet Union” from issue 61? www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/61/wo...
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Labor Days | Tony Wood
Reinventing the workweek in the Soviet Union
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
We published a new artist project today: “Anchor and Archive: The Uprooting of Palestinian Olive Trees,” a series of photographs taken by @adambroomberg.bsky.social and Rafael Gonzalez in the West Bank, with an introduction by Irus Braverman. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/69/br...
Olive tree in front of wallOld olive tree trunkAnimals peaking out behind an olive treeOlive tree grove
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
NEW ARTICLE: Reed McConnell’s “Academic Discipline,” which investigates the tradition of Karzer, German university prisons where students (such as Karl Marx) were sent for a range of offenses: dueling, making a nocturnal racket, and leading vagabond-like lifestyles. @reedreedreed.bsky.social
Photograph of Karzer interior.Photograph of Karzer interior.Photograph of Karzer interior.Photograph of Karzer interior.
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