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. Yet landlords retain the power…

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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