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"On some blocks 'unity' reads like we got this, on others it sounds like calm down. Some wood panels burst with color and Black faces, some simply with the nearest spray paint say 'Black Owned, Minority Owned, Kids Live Here.' Murals and graffiti jewel the city as it thinks about what it would mean to shed the things that hunt our skin." Twin Cities–based poet Danez Smith reflects on the Minneapolis storefront art, and commerce, responding to the police killing of George Floyd.

Minneapolis Street Art During and After the BLM Protests The poet and writer on how activism creates art.

"This repatriation is symbolic in that it’s not often, or perhaps has never happened, where the owners just hand over a building to a Native organization." After 10 years as a contemporary art center, Yale Union in Portland, OR has announced that it's shutting down and transferring ownership of its land and its 1908 building to the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation.

Arts Center in Portland Gives Its Building and Land to a Native Organization This "perhaps has never happened, where the owners just hand over a building to a Native organization."

"There's something virus-like about social media, in the way it operates, in the way it taps into our physiology on a chemical level in our brain." Labor Camp—aka Minneapolis-based artist Piotr Szyhalski—talks with the The Brooklyn Rail's Elise Armani about , viral media, and his daily COVID-19 Reports.

Elise Armani with Piotr Szyhalski Piotr Szyhalski is a Polish-born, US-based artist. Trained in Poland as a poster designer, Szyhalski has been living in Minneapolis since 1994, where he teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In 1998, Szyhalski began Labor Camp, an ongoing artistic framework that transcends medium and...