Billie Anania

New York

Regular Contributor at Hyperallergic

Art Critic, Writer and Senior Editor at Freelance

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Articles

House of the Rising Hun

1 month ago | thebaffler.com | Alexander Wells |Gábor Schein |Billie Anania |Shilpa Jindia

On Andrássy Avenue, the most elegant shopping strip in central Budapest, there is one four-story building that is not quite like the others. It is called the House of Terror, and you can tell, because its metallic awnings have the word terror stamped into them. Behind an art installation made of chains and a piece of the Berlin Wall, the building’s facade is decorated with pictures of victims of the Communist regime that once controlled Hungary.
Revolutionary Communism vs. Institutional Banality

Feb 15, 2024 | lux-magazine.com | Billie Anania |Rachel Mendelsohn

Who does Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues really speak to? The great novel of working-class politics and trans struggle turned 30 this year, and after being long relegated to cult classic status, it’s finally achieved mainstream recognition. Particularly since Feinberg’s passing in 2014, publications like the New York Times have praised the novel as an important contribution to trans, nonbinary, and intersex visibility.
Pintar a la clase obrera

Sep 18, 2023 | ctxt.es | Billie Anania

Culturas /Artes y letrasCaja de HerramientasarteEn los años previos a la Gran Depresión, los pintores de la Escuela Ashcan rechazaron las normas culturales del mercado del arte. En su lugar, optaron por un realismo inspirado en la vida de los trabajadoresBillie Anania (Jacobin)18/09/2023En CTXT podemos mantener nuestra radical independencia gracias a que las suscripciones suponen el 70% de los ingresos. No aceptamos “noticias” patrocinadas y apenas tenemos publicidad.
The Victims of Communism Museum is a Propaganda Machine for Normalizing the Hard Right

Mar 14, 2023 | historynewsnetwork.org | Billie Anania

SOURCE: The Baffler 3/15/2023 Breaking News tags: Cold War, Communism, museums, public history, propaganda by Billie Anania Billie Anania is an editor, organizer, and journalist in Brooklyn whose work focuses on political economy in the cultural industries and the history of art in global liberation movements. “THERE IS NO WAY he is a victim of communism,” my partner quips, pointing to a photo of the late Pope John Paul II.
Shalom and Pass the Joint

Feb 13, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Billie Anania

Congresswoman Claims to Be Jewish, Revealed to Be Granddaughter of NaziIn a prior interview with the Jewish Insider in November 2022, Florida Republican congressman Anna Paulina Luna was exposed by The Washington Post for misrepresenting about her Jewish origin.
Shalom and Pass the Joint

Feb 13, 2023 | hyperallergic.com | Billie Anania

Are we finally ready to admit that the War on Drugs is a massive scam? From “reefer madness” to racial stereotypes, the United States government has long perpetuated vague counternarratives around marijuana use to curb immigration, discipline workers, and expand the prison-industrial complex. With recreational weed now legal in New York City, one Manhattan exhibition is reframing cannabis as an integral component of Jewish cultural heritage.
Truth-Telling Confronts the Colonial Gaze

Feb 7, 2023 | hyperallergic.com | Billie Anania

On November 24, 2022, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier published a heartfelt letter commemorating the National Day of Mourning. Incarcerated since 1977, the former American Indian Movement organizer called out the contradictions in the United States government’s occupation of Native land, which has systematically hindered any form of tribal sovereignty.
The Argentine Artist Making Paintings on Devalued Currency

Jan 31, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Billie Anania

The Contemporary Women Artists Reclaiming Motherhood“There are good artists that have children. They are called men,” Tracey Emin famously remarked, explaining that motherhood would “compromise” her work. She’s not alone in this belief: Marina Abramović similarly told the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel that she had three abortions, because she was certain having children “would be a disaster” for her work.
The Argentine Artist Making Paintings on Devalued Currency

Jan 31, 2023 | hyperallergic.com | Billie Anania

An Argentinian artist is combating his country’s ongoing inflation crisis by selling miniature paintings on depreciated banknotes. Sergio Guillermo Diaz, a painter and museum worker from the northern province of Salta, has been raising the value of increasingly valueless currency to support his family.
Artist Romare Bearden’s Reckoning With the South

Jan 28, 2023 | jacobin.com | Billie Anania

Bearden’s great-grandfather Henry Kennedy was likely born into slavery but became a railroad worker after emancipation, eventually saving enough to open a small grocery in Charleston, North Carolina. Bearden’s childhood was defined by financial struggles as his family tried in vain to uphold the business during segregation. They fled north just before young Romy’s fifth birthday. Gilmore’s central thesis is that Bearden remained transfixed on the Reconstruction South throughout his career.