Sophie Haigney
Metro reporter for . Used to write for and . Editor-at-large for .
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Political Memoirs Are Completely Out of Touch With Present Day Politics
Medium 162d 1 tweets
New books by Barack Obama and John Boehner promise a trip down memory lane as the world burns
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Sophie Haigney I judged some book covers for 162d
Net Art FTW
Nytimes.com 191d 1 tweets
With so many museums around the world closed, art made from the internet for the internet has been a saving grace.
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Sophie Haigney For I wrote my opinion, which is that net art is good 191d
Museums Are Struggling to Train Their Mostly White Docents to Talk About Race
Slate Magazine 199d 2 tweets
As one museum education employee said, “It’s not totally this, but mostly, it’s an army of privileged old white women.”
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Sophie Haigney I wrote for about how heavily museums rely on volunteer labor—and the problems that’s causing, especially as largely white volunteer corps are being tasked with talking about race 198d
No pubs, no kissing, no flying: how Covid-19 is forcing authors to change their novels
the Guardian 276d 2 tweets
Never mind newly minted corona lockdown stories, authors are frantically rewriting existing projects to reflect a world turned upside down by the pandemic – or shelving them indefinitely
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Sophie Haigney There is an extremely odd conception of fiction described in this piece by the novelists quoted! One says, “Will getting on a plane feel wildly anachronistic? Will journalists working from an office seem weird?” 277d
A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy
Nytimes.com 699d 102 tweets
The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs.
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Sophie Haigney “‘It is a creature from the black lagoon,’ said Dr. Tom Chiller, who heads the fungal branch at the C.D.C.” 699d
Not All Surveillance Is Created Equal
Sophie Haigney - Pacific Standard 740d 1 tweets
We're all being watched, but immigrants are among the most vulnerable to surveillance.
The Art of the Internet, Restored and Out in the World
Nytimes.com 772d 5 tweets
A show at the New Museum celebrates the completion of Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology, a two-year project to preserve and archive digital artworks that were in danger of disappearing.
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Sophie Haigney I wrote for about Net Art, old and new! 772d
People Are Stacking Too Many Stones
The New Yorker 823d 3 tweets
The proliferation of cairns, fuelled by social media, can cause erosion and damage ecosystems.
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Sophie Haigney I wrote for about stone stacking, which is an ancient tradition, except then someone figured out you can take nice pictures of them, and then other people did, and now people are stacking too many stones!!! It is causing some problems! 823d
When Crypto Meets Conceptual Art, Things Get Weird
Nytimes.com 1003d 5 tweets
Kevin Abosch is turning the technology behind cryptocurrencies into art, stamping blockchain addresses in his own blood and selling a virtual neon Lamborghini.
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Sophie Haigney This story was a lot about art that has no physical presence but it was very exciting that it was on the front page of the physical Arts section! 1002d
City parks belong to everyone. Right?
The Economist 1031d 1 tweets
A trove of pictures from New York in 1978 has just resurfaced, highlighting that the edenic ideal of public green spaces is rarely so simple
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Sophie Haigney I wrote for about New York’s parks: the astounding lost photos from 1978, the complex politics of public space, and the coming of spring and summer. 1031d
Feisty 2-person newspaper overcomes SF auto break-in epidemic
San Francisco Chronicle 1063d 1 tweets
Adrian Fernandez Baumann was getting a burrito and a beer in the Mission last month when someone broke into his car and stole bags containing two computers. But it wasn't losing the laptops to San Francisco's auto break-in epidemic that upset him...
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Sophie Haigney Here's a story about a two-person newspaper that's covering an entire county where most local news sources have been gutted by Digital First Media. 1063d