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Laura McLean-Ferris

@lmcleanferris.bsky.social
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Writer and curator. Past contributions to: 4Columns, Artforum, Bookforum, ArtReview, Frieze, e-flux, Mousse. Formerly chief curator at Swiss Institute, New York

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Billionaires are consolidating around Cuomo because they know he will preserve the broken status quo. New Yorkers are rallying behind our campaign because they're ready for change. In two weeks, we will shock the political establishment and win a city we can all afford.
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Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Such important attentiveness to language in this essay, which includes both “pretty ideas” and a commitment to generous disagreement. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/m...
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The Old Idea That Could Give New Life to Progressive Politics
During the first Trump era, the resistance engaged in soaring rhetoric about unity — then fell apart. Will this time be different?
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Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Speculations on our new AI friends: I’m in 4Columns this week reviewing ‘Luminous’ by Silvia Park, a cyberpunk-noir novel which reenvisions love and relationships in a futuristic unified Korea. 4columns.org/mclean-ferri...
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Luminous
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Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Why Israel’s Raid on a Palestinian Bookshop Matters
The real threat posed by detained booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna is their willingness to engage with Jewish-Israelis amid a state narrative that presents all Palestinians as terrorists
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Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Nice to see that they set the dance scene in Wicked at La Caverna
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Aruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Lorraine O’Grady, 1934-2024. A formidable and brilliant artist. Editing her collected essays and co-curating her first full retrospective when she was 86 yrs old was the honor of a lifetime. We’re only now starting to understand the depths of her work and genius.
A photograph of Lorraine O’Grady at age 86, wearing a leather jacket and leather pants and looking badass.Lorraine O’Grady in the 1980s during her public performance of “Art Is…” during the African American Parade in Harlem.
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The year in books: Beyond the marketing trends, 2024 offered a refreshing reminder that the life of many texts is cyclical, writes Helen Charman artreview.com/we-deserve-m...
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We Deserve More Than Novelty from the Publishing Industry
The year in books: Beyond the marketing trends, 2024 offered a refreshing reminder that the life of many texts is cyclical
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Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Haven't seen such a good show of this scale in a very long time ! Here's a review of Meriem Bennani, 'My Best Family' at Fondazione Prada, Milan www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/mer...
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Meriem Bennani, “For My Best Family” at Fondazione Prada, Milan — Mousse Magazine and Publishing
I was not alone in having a surprising and immediate reaction to the first tiny episode of Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki’s 2 Lizards series when I saw it on
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Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Though the occasions to do so are very rare I do enjoy writing a rave every now and again because I love to write drama
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Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The best
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Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Mary Gaitskill: when thoughts behave like "discordant bits of mental detritus borne along by boiling feelings like lawn furniture in lava" marygaitskill.substack.com/p/the-lovely...
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The Lovely and Loveable World
...which quietly persists
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Oliver Basciano @olibasciano.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Overjoyed with the opportunity to tell the 4000 year history of leprosy, and report the stories of those affected past and present. Out June 2025 with @faberbooks.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/rights/faber...
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Faber signs journalist Basciano’s 'captivating' book on the history of leprosy
Faber has signed journalist Oliver Basciano’s "captivating" first book, Outcast: A History of Us Through Leprosy.
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Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I thought this was really interesting and at certain moments parallels some of the tensions in Dean's Harper's essay and its reception: www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
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Why Do We Talk This Way?
Technology is dramatically changing political speech, rewarding quantity and variety over the neat messages of the past.
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Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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James Bridle: ‘The Denial of Genocide Is on the March Everywhere’
The artist addresses the ‘duty of institutions to act ethically’
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Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Have been writing about Meriem Bennani’s show at Fondazione Prada in Milan this week, and revisiting ’Two Lizards’ made with Orian Barki. Found this perfect image of summer 2020 in New York:
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Laura McLean-Ferris @lmcleanferris.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
was on Twitter for 17 years & nothing to show for it
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