A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Leopoldo Méndez: An Aesthetic of Protest
“…a new aesthetic, one of protest, full of popular longings, and that lives in the full multitude of rebellion, is strong and great and captures us with the emotion of battle –…
Isabelle Eberhardt, Writer, Nomad, and Feminist
Writer and nomad Isabelle Eberhardt traversed and explored the Maghreb with a critical eye. She not only condemned French colonialism, but also the established gender roles of her era.
Samuel Oladele’s Bordering Portraits
“When we view the pictures, we are drawn into a region of borders, boundaries, and limits. When asked about this idea behind his photography, Oladele calls it the unique African way of…
Composite Artwork: Communicating Greater Reality?
These paintings symbolise the interconnectedness of all things, and that we live in a unified universe.
He Who Strikes First, Hits Twice: The Urgent Cinema of Santiago Álvarez
“Álvarez’s work … was a shining example of a poverty row aesthetic forged from necessity. His films were … an example of “urgent cinema”, keyed to raising public consciousness about current issues…
Rai Tide Rising
Two Algerian rai tunes made the top ten of the Village Voice music critics’s poll in 1989. Why were post-liberation Algerian pop singers winning a wide Western audience while an earlier generation of popular…
Magpies’ Mix Tape: A different kind of protest song
“Let’s call things by their name! If we don’t break the silence we will die in silence
Against fear is life, against fear is love, against fear we are, against fear without…
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