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'Spiders' in Art  (’Halloween in Art’ Series)

Top:

'The Crying Spider (l’Araignée qui pleure),' (1881),

Odilon Redon (1840–1916),

Charcoal,  H 49.5 cm x W 37.5 cm,

Private collection, Netherlands.

Middle:

Person views Louise Bourgeois' (1911–2010) 'Spider,' at a Christies New York press preview on May 3, 2019, as part of Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale in New York.

Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images.

Bottom:

'Arachne,' (1861),

Gustave Doré (1832–1883).

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Dancers Alex Clayton and Lisa Borres, from the Paul Taylor Dance Company, perform a scene from the 1961 work Fibers

Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images

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Through the Years → Felipe VI of Spain (1,817/∞)

25 September 2015 | Felipe VI, King of the Kingdom of Spain, speaks the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit to the at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. (Photo credit Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

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Timothy A. Clary 

Via

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Lewis Hamilton and Anna Wintour attend the women's final match of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City, on September 7, 2024.

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lewis hamilton attends the women's singles final at the us open - september 7, 2024 📷 timothy a clary / getty

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Charles gets his visor cleaned during FP3 | Canada GP | 17 June 2023

📸 Timothy Clary

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he family of civil rights leader Malcolm X marked the anniversary of his 1965 assassination on Tuesday by announcing plans to sue the FBI, New York Police Department, and CIA for $100 million, claiming they concealed evidence related to his murder.

For more than half a century, the circumstances surrounding the notorious assassination have been shrouded in mystery, fueling long-held conspiracy theories about possible government involvement. Two men who were convicted of murdering Malcolm X in 1966 were exonerated in 2021 after serving decades in prison—and the New York District Attorney admitted that the FBI and NYPD at the time withheld evidence.

“For years, our family has fought for the truth to come to light concerning his murder,” Ilyasah Shabazz, a daughter of Malcolm X, said at a news conference at the site of her father’s assassination, which is now a memorial.

The civil rights leader was 39 when he was assassinated in 1965 at an auditorium in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood. Three gunmen shot at least 21 times, as Malcolm X’s four children and pregnant wife ducked for safety.

At the news conference on Tuesday, civil rights lawyer Ben Crump said: “It’s not just about the triggermen. It’s about those who conspired with the triggermen to do this dastardly deed.” He claims that government agencies had factual and exculpatory evidence that they concealed from the family of Malcolm X and the men wrongly convicted of his assassination. Crump alleged that high-ranking U.S. officials conspired to kill the civil rights leader, repeatedly referencing J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director who died in 1972.

Ilyasah Shabazz (C), daughter of African-American activist Malcolm X, speaks alongside civil rights attorney Ben Crump (L) and co-counsel Ray Hamlin (C, R) during a press conference in New York on February 21, 2023 at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, formerly known as the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was shot dead at 39 on Feb. 21, 1965.

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What we know about Malcolm X’s assassination

Malcolm X was a controversial figure for many Americans—both white and Black. Unflinching when it came to calling out the realities of anti-Black racism, and famously referring to white people as “blue-eyed devils,” he spoke about the need for Black empowerment. He argued for the creation of a Black separatist society, and was a highly visible figure within the Nation of Islam.

In March 1964, Malcolm X announced that he was leaving the Nation of Islam over disagreements with Elijah Muhammad, the group’s leader. He was assassinated a year later as he was preparing to give a speech about the mission of his new group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City on Feb. 21, 1965.

When Malcolm X took the stage to begin his address, an apparent dispute broke out among the audience and a man ran onto the stage, approached Malcolm X and shot him. Two other people then ran up to the stage and also fired. The civil rights leader was shot a total of 21 times.

What we know about the men convicted of his murder

In the more than half a century since his death, what actually happened that day has remained the subject of controversy and conspiracy theories. One man who was shot by a bodyguard and captured, Thomas Hagan (a.k.a Talmadge Hayer and Mujahid Abdul Halim), confessed to the killing and was imprisoned for 44 years. But since his 1966 trial, he has maintained that the other two Nation of Islam members convicted in the murder were innocent: Norman Butler (a.k.a Muhammad Abdul Aziz) and Thomas Johnson (a.k.a Khalil Islam). Hayer did not name any other culprits at the time of the trial.

There was no evidence linking Butler or Johnson to the crime. Butler had an alibi for the time of the murder: He was at home resting after injuring his leg, and a doctor who had treated him took the stand during the trial. Nonetheless, all three men were found guilty in 1966 and sentenced to life in prison.

In 1977, Hayer named four men who were members of the Nation of Islam’s Newark chapter who he said had begun planning Malcolm X’s murder in May 1964. He said that he was approached by two of the four men, who told him that Malcolm X should be killed. They later met with the other two men and discussed how they would commit the assassination, he said.

“I had a bit of love and admiration for [Nation of Islam leader] the Honorable Elijah Muhammed, and I just felt that like this is something that I have to stand up for,” Hayer later said, according to Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, a 2011 biography of Malcolm X written by historian Manning Marable.

But for decades, the new information about the other four alleged conspirators went nowhere. The District Attorney’s office did not reopen the investigation until a 2020 Netflix documentary series Who Killed Malcolm X? and efforts by the Innocence Project renewed public interest in the case and prompted Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. to review the convictions.

Evidence unearthed by Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, a Malcolm X historian and scholar, and investigative journalist Les Payne made a compelling case that the actual killers were members of a Newark mosque, rather than Malcolm X’s former Harlem mosque associates Butler and Johnson. In November, a judge dismissed the convictions of Butler and Johnson after Vance acknowledged that “it was clear these men did not receive a fair trial.” New York City was ordered to pay $26 million to the pair to compensate them for their wrongful murder convictions.

What we know about theories about allegations of CIA and FBI involvement

In addition to the unfair trial, some historians have argued that various agencies including the FBI, NYPD, and CIA were actively involved in the assassination attempt. Experts have said that these agencies viewed Malcolm X as a dangerous Black radical figure who needed to be brought down. Others have suggested that they did not need to plot to murder him since he was already a target.

Nonetheless, Malcolm X was under near-constant surveillance by federal and local authorities—as were many civil rights activists. The FBI first opened a file on Malcolm X in March 1953, and closely monitored him over the next decade using surveillance and informants. On June 6, 1964, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sent a telegram, which later became public, to the FBI office in New York City that said “do something about Malcolm X.”

“Both the NYPD and FBI failed to disclose to prosecutors that they had undercover officers on the scene,” historian Zaheer Ali, the lead researcher for Marable’s biography Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, wrote for TIME in November 2021. “They decided instead to protect their assets; there seemed to be a desire to wrap up the investigation quickly. What paths of inquiry were avoided or cut short as a result? If these two men were unjustly convicted, then who else was unjustly allowed to roam free?”

Crump, the lawyer representing Malcolm X’s family, said on Tuesday that their lawsuit will allege that government agencies were involved in the conspiracy to assassinate Malcolm X. The New York District Attorney’s office has already acknowledged law enforcement’s failings in the case, saying in 2021 that the FBI and NYPD did not honor their obligation to disclose exculpatory evidence to prosecutors and the accused, including “information that implicated other suspects; that identified witnesses who failed to identify defendant Islam; and that revealed witnesses to be FBI informants.” The office also said at the time that FBI records suggested “that information was deliberately withheld.”

According to Crump, these comments from the New York District Attorney’s office—combined with the city’s $26 million settlement—are what opened the door for Malcolm X’s family to build a case against authorities. “If the government compensated the two gentlemen that were wrongfully convicted for the assassination of Malcolm X with tens of millions of dollars, then what is to be the compensation for the daughters who suffered the most from the assassination of Malcolm X?” Crump asked.

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„I had to protect you, Clary. I'm the good guy!“ „No. Look at you, Matt. Look at what you did to yourself; what you did to them. You are a monster, like the ones you've always condemned. You are just like them. You are a Shark.“

Timothy Yale as Matt Coulter in You Seem Nice Season 2 teaser trailer –– Watch season 1 here!

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Soup Cookie Sympathy: NYC Subway Strangler Daniel Penny Raised Over $2 Million For Legal Defense For Killing Jordan Neely -

Soup Cookie Sympathy: NYC Subway Strangler Daniel Penny Raised Over $2 Million For Legal Defense For Killing Jordan Neely

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Last week, BOSSIP reported on the death of a Black man named Jordan Neely at the hands of a white man named Daniel Penny aboard an NYC subway train. Neely was suffering a severe mental health crisis and Penny took it upon himself to enact vigilante violence against him in the name of “heroism.” Despite being released by the NYPD following some brief questioning, Penny was eventually charged with second-degree manslaughter. Although we shouldn’t be totally surprised, the latest update of this story is nonetheless infuriating.

Source: Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty

We cannot confirm this, but we’d be willing to bet good inflated American currency that those who donated to this sick show of public sympathy own at least ONE red hat…

The alleged law firm of Raiser & Kenniff, P.C. initiated the fundraiser on a platform called GiveSendGo at 1o a.m. Sunday morning. Once word got out, people immediately started reaching into their proverbial pockets to donate. Raiser & Kenniff (which sounds fake as HELL but we digress…)claim that any money that is left over after expenses are paid will be donated to a mental health program in NYC.

Individuals who donated to Penny’s fundraising effort left comments backing Penny’s self defense argument: “Thank you for standing up for innocent people that day,” one person wrote.

It’s worth mentioning that Trump boot-licker, Disney damager, Presidential-hopeful, and Florida governor Ron DeSantis also shared the fundraising effort on his social media accounts as hell. Similarly, the National Police Association sent out a tweet soliciting donations for the “good Samaritan.”

Daniel Penny and those who support him can go straight to hell.

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New York, US

Momix dancer Seah Hagan performs a scene from Aqua Flora during a performance of Back to Momix at the Queens Theatre. Momix, a dance company based in Washington, Connecticut, was founded in 1981 by choreographer Moses Pendleton

Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images

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I didn't want to talk about this but I must. The taped banana, Comedian by Maurizio Cattelan, has generated a global debate that is polarizing. The split of opinion ranges from an "amazing monument to the market" to the outright insult to society. In all clarity, the taped banana is not art because it elicits a reaction. It was an elaborately staged and costly satire of the art world and market, which had managed to sell multiple times for millions of dollars. The whole spectacle reflected manipulation: media, markets, promotion-legislating that everyone-I in this case-is participating in the conversation it generated. I had planned to ignore it, but the general scale of controversy is hard to look away from.

Sotheby's auctioneer Oliver Barker overseeing the bidding for Maurizio Cattelan, Comedian (2019) at Sotheby's on November 20, 2024. Photo: Courtesy of Sotheby's.

Historically, the art market has always been a means to take advantage of creativity, hailing truly magnificent and groundbreaking works. However, Cattelan managed to turn things around, getting oligarchs and institutions to spend astronomical prices on a banana taped to a wall. It's not due to the value of the piece alone but rather strategic branding and the pretension of "exclusivity". This same rule applies to luxury brands like Balenciaga when selling chip packet-shaped $1,000 or more bags with cultural elitism.

From a critical standpoint, Comedian certainly echoes the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp. However, even of Duchamp's Fountain-a common urinal signed and presented as an artwork-was couched in deep philosophical investigation into what art can be, it questioned the traditional notions of artistic creation and authorship and perpetrated a discourse that still perturbs contemporary art today. On the other hand, it is necessary to establish that the ready-mades of Duchamp were very controversial. Some even say they were highly influenced by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, a trailblazing artist whose innovative ideas were overshadowed by those of her male peers. Among those, Duchamp himself has been criticized for having stolen the ideas from her and years after her death claiming works as his own that might as well have Elsa's stamp of creativity. This history underlines how female artists have been consistently marginalized and inserts the understanding that credit and recognition of art have been positively biased towards male narratives, often at the cost of erasing women's contributions. But that's another subject.

Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images.

In Cattelan's case, the banana is not making any statement about the nature of art; it is an object commenting on the absurdity of the art market. The famous auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, have legitimized this kind of sale of "objects," thus further obliterating the line that separates art from market manipulation. This is where we have to underline one important difference: art is not the market. Hype, exclusivity, and the wishes of wealthy elites often override the intrinsic value that art is a creative and cultural expression.

David Datuna ate Cattelan's banana

The Comedian by Maurizio Cattelan has positive and negative facets that attribute to its controversial status. On the plus side, the piece indeed continues to stir international conversations on the value and definition of art, serving as a cultural mirror that dares viewers to question the power of media, wealth, and branding in the world of art. Furthermore, it acts as a comment on the absurdity of the art market, playfully satirizing its commodification and elitism. Yet, there are major drawbacks with the work. Its execution is shallow compared to Duchamp's ready-mades, which brought profound philosophical questions about art into the world; instead, this banana on the wall feels more like a calculated media stunt. Moreover, it exemplifies the commodification of art and perpetuates the exploitation of creativity in commercial industries. By achieving sales in multimillion-dollar figures, it runs the risk of diluting the standards of art from one based on innovation and craftsmanship toward shock value and market manipulation.

Image : Art Basel visitors in 2019.(Reuters: Eva Marie Uzcategui)

While the great comedy is a brilliant burlesque of the art market, in and of itself it is not art. It is valuable for exposing the machinations of hype and exclusivity that underlie the market in art. It does, however, demean the integrity of art as an expressive medium, an imaginative enterprise, and a cultural force by conflating this mercantile performance with artistic merit.