Sometimes you need a cloak of invisibility, sometimes you need a coat of armor, and sometimes you just need to go naked! I encourage any attempt to provoke positive change.
Social Malpractice in the Age of Cultural Compliance, by Ed Woodham, Hyperallergic, March 25, 2026.
What happens when the language of social practice becomes a tool of the very systems it once hoped to challenge?
We are living in a strangely apocalyptic moment where a perverse logic runs the machinery of public life while insisting everything is just fine. Around the world, political systems are tightening control over commerce, education, culture, and communication. Independent critical thinking is increasingly treated as subversive rather than a civic virtue. Public space, once the laboratory for egalitarian expression, is shrinking under surveillance, privatization, and corporate branding.
So where does socially engaged art fit into a world progressively hostile to independent thought? Read the whole article here.
Before April Fools’ Day 2019 even began, the tech giant 
Of the branded pranks that did go down, the most interesting had satirical or meta-comedic elements.
Others were just plain, dumb, silly, marginally self-aware fun. Here are the best of the rest:
And there was even some good news!
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