Hyperallergic Includes Americas Society's Performance in Its Required Reading Section
Hyperallergic Includes Americas Society's Performance in Its Required Reading Section
The website highlights an image of Marta Minujín's performance and describes it as "a still-relevant commentary on global capitalism."
This week, a group of performers at New York's Americas Society recreated artist Marta Minujín's 1985 photo with Andy Warhol, "Payment of the Argentine Foreign Debt to Andy Warhol with Corn, The Latin American Gold," a still-relevant commentary on global capitalism.
The weird sales practices of Birkin bags are the stuff of legend and nightmares, so it’s interesting that there’s a class-action suit against Hermès over those same sales practices. For the Business of Fashion, Robert Williams has the story: Counsel for the plaintiffs claim that Hermès is in violation of US antitrust regulations, which define certain practices of bundling goods or tying them to other purchases as an abuse of market power.
“The tying product, the Birkin Handbags, is separate and distinct from the tied products, the ancillary products required to be purchased by consumers,” the complaint reads. “Plaintiffs have alternative options for the ancillary products and would prefer to choose among them independently from their decision to purchase Birkin handbags.” David Friedlander writes for New York Magazine about the “transactional” government of the city’s mayor, Eric Adams...
