In 2002, we proudly presented an evening with Jonathan Franzen. He discussed The Corrections, his novel about the American Family, giving a view on modern western society that is both humorous and poignant.
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Not long after Brian Rose photographed Monument Avenue in Richmond (VA), the city announced that it was taking down all of the Confederate memorials. In November of 2020 he returned to Monument Avenue to photograph the empty pedestals.
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In the exhibition A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be, Kara Walker (1969, USA) opens her private archives containing more than 600 drawings that she has kept hidden for the past 28 years. De Pont in Tilburg is presenting these unknown treasures in Walker’s first major solo exhibition in the Netherlands.
The US supreme court draft ruling on abortion is an assault on fundamental individual freedoms, says Margaret Atwood. In this article for the Guardian, The Handmaid’s Tale author reflects on the issues at stake in case Roe vs. Wade gets overturned by the court as expected. Atwood visited the John Adams twice, in 1994 and 2013.