Che Applewhaite’s film A New England Document will have its world premiere this month at the Sheffield Doc/Fest (https://sheffdocfest.com/films/6964). A New England Document is an essay portrait of Lorna and Laurence Marshall, told by the filmmaker and their daughter Elizabeth, through their diaries, writings, and visual archive, which the Marshalls began collecting in the 1950s as they embarked on the first of four decades of anthropological expeditions to the Kalahari Desert.... Read more about A New England Document, by Che Applewhaite, premieres at the Sheffield Doc/Fest

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How global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present, combating modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism.

If European modernism was premised on the new—on surpassing the past, often by assigning it to the “traditional” societies of the Global South—global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present. In this account of what globalization means for contemporary art, David Joselit argues that the creative use of tradition by artists from around the world serves as a means of combatting modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism.... Read more about New book by David Joselit, "Heritage and Debt"

Valerie Werder, a first-year PhD student in Film and Visual Studies, is the winner of the 2019 Fence Modern Prize in Prose for her autofiction novel, Thieves. Werder has previously published short fiction in BOMB and staged theatrical performances at Participant Inc, New York, and Artspace, New Haven. Thieves will be her first book, and will be published in fall 2021.... Read more about Valerie Werder’s first novel is the winner of the 2019 Fence Modern Prize in Prose