International Art: Apollo Magazine – June 2024 Issue
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News: Claudia Sheinbaum Elected Mexico President, Burkina Faso’s ‘Crisis Era’
The Globalist Podcast (June 3, 2024): Why neglect of Burkina Faso’s ongoing crisis is the ‘new normal’ and the results from Mexico’s historical election.
Also in the programme: Samir Puri is in Singapore as leaders discuss security in Asia, Nick Bryant tells us what’s next for Donald Trump in the wake of his conviction and the latest culture news with Amah Rose Abrams.
The New York Times — Monday, June 3, 2024
A Felon in the Oval Office Would Test the American System
Some are wondering how the Constitution’s checks and balances, meant to hold presidents accountable, would work if the next president elected were already a felon.
Netanyahu May Face a Choice Between a Truce and His Government’s Survival
The Israeli prime minister has been put on the spot by President Biden’s announcement outlining a proposal for a truce.
Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them
The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.
Sunday Morning: Stories And News From London, Stockholm And Ljubljana
Monocle on Sunday, June 2, 2024: Emma Nelson, Charles Hecker and Isabel Hilton on the weekend’s biggest talking points.
We also speak to Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, in Sweden and Monocle’s Balkans correspondent, Guy de Launey, in Ljubljana. Plus: Monocle’s Georgina Godwin and Hay Festival CEO, Julie Finch, join from Hay-on-Wye to look back at this year’s event.
The New York Times — Sunday, June 2, 2024
Trump Has Few Ways to Overturn His Conviction as a New York Felon
The judge in Donald J. Trump’s case closed off many avenues of appeal, experts said, though his lawyers might challenge the novel theory at the case’s center.
Democrats Push Biden to Make Trump’s Felonies a Top 2024 Issue
Interviews with dozens of Democrats reveal a party hungry to tell voters that Donald Trump’s conviction makes him unfit for office, and hopeful that President Biden will lead the way.1d agoCREDITCHERISS MAY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Internet’s Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes
Elon Musk’s Starlink has connected an isolated tribe to the outside world — and divided it from within.
How a Self-Published Book Broke ‘All the Rules’ and Became a Best Seller
Keila Shaheen’s “The Shadow Work Journal” shows how radically book sales and marketing have been changed by TikTok.
The New York Times Magazine – June 2, 2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (June 1, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Walnut and Me’ – How my dog helped me accept that someday we will all die…
What My Dog Taught Me About Mortality
Walnut rescued me from death more than once—but not in the way you might think.The Battle Over College Speech Will Outlive the Encampments
For the first time since the Vietnam War, university demonstrations have led to a rethinking of who sets the terms for language in academia.
By EMILY BAZELON
Arts/History: Smithsonian Magazine – June 2024
Journey Into the Fiery Depths of Earth’s Youngest Caves
What Iceland’s volcanoes are revealing about early life on our planetand’s volcanoes are revealing about early life on our planetThis Doctor Pioneered Counting Calories a Century Ago, and We’re Still Dealing With the Consequences
When Lulu Hunt Peters brought Americans a new method for weighing their dinner options, she launched a century of diet fads that left us hungry for a better way to keep our bodies strong and healthy
Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London
Monocle on Saturday (June 1, 2024): Will the conviction of former President Donald Trump affect his chance of winning the US election in November?
And why does Iceland’s election today have more candidates running than ever before? Join Emma Nelson and communications consultant and journalist Simon Brooke as they look through the week’s news and culture. Plus: we look at art and tourism, including co-founder and director of London Gallery Weekend Jeremy Epstein, who joins the show to talk about this weekend’s highlights.
The New York Times — Saturday, June 1, 2024
Biden Calls for End to Gaza War, Endorsing Israeli Cease-Fire Proposal
The president outlined a plan to try to get Hamas and Israel to break out of a monthslong deadlock that has resulted in the killing of thousands of Palestinians.
Trump’s Conviction Binds the G.O.P. Even Closer to Him
Prominent Republicans, including congressional leaders, ex-rivals and potential running mates, basked in the energy, and fund-raising, of an outraged base.
Biden Denounces ‘Reckless’ G.O.P. Efforts to Discredit Trump Conviction
The president broke his long silence over his predecessor’s legal troubles, calling the New York jury’s guilty verdict vindication for the idea that “no one is above the law.”
Will It Matter? Searching for Clues in the Polls About a Trump Conviction.
He may not lose support at all, but recent backing from young and nonwhite voters might be likelier to fade.
Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’
The Week In Art Podcast (May 31, 2024): The publication in April of Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Index Annual Report has provided the art world with much food for thought.
We look at the implications for artists and institutions with Louis Jebb, the managing editor of The Art Newspaper and our technology specialist. As the Centre Pompidou in Paris is taken over on all its floors by what it calls the “ninth art”—graphic novels and comics—we talk to Joel Meadows, the editor-in-chief of Tripwire magazine and a comics aficionado, about the rise of this subculture in museums and the market. And this episode’s Work of the Week is Edgar Degas’ Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando (1879), which depicts a Black circus performer, Anna Albertine Olga Brown, who was briefly known as Miss La La.
She and the painting are the subject of a new exhibition at the National Gallery in London opening next week. We talk to Anne Robbins, the curator of paintings at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and external curator of the exhibition, and Sterre Overmars, the curatorial fellow for post-1800 paintings at the National Gallery, about the painting.
Comics on Every Floor, Centre Pompidou, Paris, until 4 November.
Discover Degas & Miss La La, National Gallery, London, 6 June-1 September.
