Smack Mellon
Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States
Hours: Wed – Sun 12-6pm
(718) 834-8761Smack Mellon presents solo and group exhibitions in their singular 6000 square foot gallery space, providing technical and financial support for the creation of new and ambitious projects by emerging, under-recognized mid-career and women artists.
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Laugh Back
On January 10, 2017, CODEPINK activist Desiree Fairooz was arrested and later convicted for laughing during Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s Senate confirmation hearing. As Senator Richard Shelby commended Sessions for his record of “treating all Americans equally under the law,” Fairooz let out a quick, sharp cackle before being escorted from the courtroom and arrested for “disorderly and disruptive” behavior. Fairooz’s reflexive outburst is just one scenario conveying the transgressive potential of laughter to threaten authority, as power and control…
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