Biweekly roundup about the PFAS crisis in the Great Lakes region.
A two-part series on heat islands located in six cities within the Great Lakes region, including the U.S. and Canada:
Part 1, Heat Islands in the Great Lakes: The human health cost
Part 2, Heat Islands in the Great Lakes: Community, infrastructure and fresh water solutions
It Follows could be an allegory about STDs. I’ve certainly joked it is about a “sexually transmitted demon.” It could be about growing up in the shadow of the AIDs crisis. It could be about sexual violence and how the trauma of that can follow a person, muddling time while impacting every following person they are intimate with and passing on the hurt like a game of tag. It could be about Detroit and what it represents, a city that cannot hide its ruins in proximity to a failing empire, the death and destruction of its drawn-out fall — it follows.
What are wetlands for, anyway?
On May 25, the Supreme Court ruled 9 to 0, changing wetland protection in The Clean Water Act. The Sackett family, who took on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), were being fined $40,000 a day for building their Idaho property too close to an unnamed tributary. That tributary feeds into a creek, and that creek feeds into Priest Lake.
Artforum International Magazine
MAYA STOVALL, Cranbrook Art Museum. “In Detroit, there are no bodegas, just liquor stores. This is part of why Maya Stovall’s 2014– video series “Liquor Store Theatre”—eighteen installments of which are currently on view at the Cranbrook Art Museum—could not have been made anywhere else. For Stovall, who is a Motor City native, these windowless mom-and-pops are neighborhood sanctuaries. With foreclosures of other types of businesses, liquor stores have expanded to become mini superstores additionally selling clothes, food, toys, cleaning supplies, and smoking paraphernalia.”
Selected works from Artforum International Magazines’s newsdesk
“Abortion,” “Miscarriage,” or “Untitled”? A Frida Kahlo Lithograph’s Complicated History
An investigation into the Detroit Institute of Arts decision to avoid the topic of “abortion” in the exhibition.
