Archive - Backbeat

Backbeat: Creative Growth United

We will bargain for BDS.

Apr 2 •

October 2023

Backbeat: Arm yourself against art

and publish your own free pile

Oct 16, 2023 •

August 2023

Backbeat: Non Plus Temps, 'Dark on Harmon'

Save Street Spirit

Aug 4, 2023 •

November 2022

Backbeat: First gigs for years

Album, video releases.

Nov 4, 2022 •

August 2022

Backbeat: Non Plus Temps, 'Desire Choir'

Watch 'Continuous Hinge.'

Aug 31, 2022 •

June 2022

Backbeat: Strike museums, seize endowments, end art

Workplace democracy? Or workplace abolition?

Jun 23, 2022 •

May 2022

Backbeat: Hedge funds with art

Museums play bank to enterprising landlords. Trustees get paid.

May 9, 2022 •

April 2022

Backbeat: Abolish rent

Tenants in Oakland and San Francisco have more rights and protections under the law than in most cities in the country.

Apr 1, 2022 •

March 2022

Backbeat: New work

Introducing: 'A Generous Grift: Museums, Finance Capital, and the Clash of Cultural Workers and Collector-Trustees.'

Mar 21, 2022 •

June 2021

Backbeat: Competing publics and neoliberal enclosure

On the politics of public space in Oakland during the pandemic and uprising.

Jun 8, 2021 •

February 2021

Ruling Class Solidarity: Conflict & Growth at SFMOMA Reexamined

How museum collector-trustees recapture charitable donations.

Feb 15, 2021 •

January 2021

Backbeat: Below the street, a creek

Terrain: Art & Crisis in Downtown Oakland, Dragged Through the Garden, Some Poems

Jan 21, 2021 •

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