Arts & culture writer/editor + visual anthropologist. Bylines: Guardian, BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, Slate, Dazed, Interview, etc. | 🇨🇦 in 🇫🇷| moharding@gmail.com
Paris, France
Joined October 2009
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Is Jeff Koons' 33-tonne sculpture, gifted to Paris post-2015 attacks, symptomatic of a culture where the spectacle of commemoration eclipses the tragedy being commemorated? Art historians, sociologists & Paris city hall opine in my latest for @BBC_Culture bbc.com/culture/story/201910…
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« En tant que Noir, pour réussir dans la société québécoise, il faut éviter le mot racisme. Éviter l’ardente prophétie de James Baldwin. (...) Il faut invisibiliser les pensées qui éclairent et défont la parole qui exclut, discrimine, déshumanise. » ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/5…
« Quand Legault ose dire qu’il n’y a pas de racisme systémique au Québec, je m’inquiète pour mes cousins. Pour ceux qui ont une autre culture, un autre pays et qui sont trop visibles, selon certains, de par leur couleur de peau, leur nom, leur religion. » plus.lapresse.ca/screens/7de…
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Photographer Marco Anelli offers a fascinating window into the ateliers of artists including Marina Abramović, Nate Lowman and Shirin Neshat. trib.al/C52nG0P
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There's a lot to be anxious about, so I understand if media is not your first concern. But if you're as saddened as I am about the folding of The Outline, or are confused about why media is fucked rn, thought I'd share some thoughts on both. If for no other reason than catharsis.
🚨Montréal: Les organisations de première ligne rappellent l'urgence d'agir pour prévenir la transmission communautaire chez les Montréalais en itinérance. Lisez et signez ici➡️
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"The dream of class mobility dissipates when society locks down, the economy stalls, the death count mounts and everyone’s future is frozen inside their own crowded apartment or palatial mansion. The difference between the two has never been more obvious." nytimes.com/2020/03/30/arts/…
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Yes, because every Canadian I know is rushing to flee free healthcare and a PM who believes in science. 😒
Trump looking to put troops near Canadian border amid coronavirus fears - National | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/6735064/c… #COVIDIDIOT #uspoli
“I honestly feel like it’s a public service. I’m being paid for my public service.”
His utter lack of shame or self-scrutiny about the whole “fixing inefficiencies in the marketplace” schtick is what frightens me most.
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In Mogul Mowgli, actor-writer-rapper #RizAhmed explores ancestral trauma, a molecular identity crisis and Pakistan’s disco-Islam aesthetic buff.ly/2TCXJN1
"We used to obsess about celebrities and then started obsessing about one another." Funny, frank and refreshingly unsentimental rendering of our modern online antics. 👏👏👏nytimes.com/2020/02/27/opini…
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Another great German word or, rather, concept: der Feierabend! But can it last? No surprise this is being questioned as smartphones are simply commonplace, making it harder to put an end time to a day’s work. bbc.com/worklife/article/202…
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isn't it funny how so many of these glossy editors enjoyed unbelievable opulence and leeway while helping steer the magazine industry into free fall, at which point they got to walk away and land book deals writing about how good they used to have it? nytimes.com/2020/02/12/style…
Digging everything – musically and otherwise – about this fully forthright and unshackled iteration of La Roux. Great interview, too. independent.co.uk/arts-enter…
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A production requiring 30 background actors. Bananas. "China’s state broadcaster reported on the proceedings, including images of the pretend protesters. 'Locals gathered outside the courthouse, calling for Wanzhou's release,' a voice said in Mandarin." theglobeandmail.com/canada/b…
“The problem with extracting someone raised in a cult is that they don’t understand that how they live isn’t normal or healthy. But someone who has navigated the equally toxic environment of Hollywood is ideally suited to the task.”😂#Megxit thebeaverton.com/2020/01/loc…
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Pierre et Gilles recall their Palace days (the Studio 54 of Paris), the heartfelt notes they still receive from gay youths everywhere & why @LanaDelRey would be their dream collaboration. Would love to see this happen :) edition.cnn.com/style/articl… @villecannes @philharmonie
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"While arguments rage about plant- vs meat-based diets, new technologies will soon make them irrelevant. Before long, most of our food will come neither from animals nor plants, but from unicellular life." Keen to sample one of those unicellular pancakes. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Suite à la polémique #Matzneff, j'ai finalement revu ce moment d'anthologie de la télé 🇫🇷 de 1990. youtube.com/watch?v=TjZmJkLd… Encore plus infect que ce à quoi je m'attendais. La complaisance de B Pivot + sa bande est ahurissante. La défense de ce Matzneff à l'ego meutri? Risible.
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Elle avait dénoncé #Matzneff chez Bernard Pivot il y a 30 ans. Denise Bombardier, la romancière canadienne écrit une tribune courageuse dont le titre est "La «mal baisée» | Le Journal de Montréal journaldemontreal.com/2020/0…