How To End It

four 20 x 16 inch panels hang in a row above a radiator, each one a monochrome: green, red, black, and white. gonzalez-torres forbidden colors 2021- is a repetition of the artist's 1988 work, available to all institutions or individuals who want to show the felix version but can't borrow it from moca

Over the summer Huw Lemmey wrote in the LRB about the implications of the British government’s designation of Palestine Action, a group of activists opposed to the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, and the support provided to the IDF by the UK government and military contractors, as a terrorist organization.

The vagueness of the statute, the Terrorism Act 2000’s definition of “supporting terrorism” is as he and many others warned: since July hundreds of people demonstrating with signs and t-shirts that “oppose genocide” or “support Palestine”. It has truly passed and lapped the authoritarian censorship madness that inspired Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ Forbidden Colors (1988) several times, and seems to show no sign of slowing down, much less reversing.

a spread from financial times how to spend it titled how to shop it features an array of watermelon-related luxury products, either artisanal products depicting watermelons, or clothing or household items in watermelon colors, singly, or in combination. at the center is a photo of a deep green watermelon slashed as if by a machete, standing on end in its various chunks. the spread surely has nothing to do with the common symbolic reference watermelons' red, green, black and white color scheme has to the palestinian flag

In completely unrelated UK news, this weekend’s issue of the Financial Times’ How To Spend It has this colorful How To Shop It feature with “21 mouth-watering watermelon buys,” perfect for late summer! [h/t @JeremyMillar]