Grin City Collective
Combining the concept of an artist residency with that of a volunteer corps, Grin City Collective creates a dialogue-rich, socially-driven creative community for everyone, regardless of age, degree, or experience.
Sean Starowitz at the Walnut Place Laundromat
Librarian and collaborator John Helling surveys the current Byproduct project by Sean Starowitz in the second of this two-part series.
Byproduct: The Laundromat – Unfolding socially-engaged art practices
Sean Starowitz discusses his Byproduct series set in a laundromat in Kansas City, which aims to place art in the realm of knowledge, tools and experience by engaging a diverse public in unexpected ways.
Flatlanders and Surface Dwellers at 516 ARTS: An Interview with Lea Anderson
Sage Dawson speaks with curator Lea Anderson about how contemporary artists explore a distinct language of surface, emerging with personal, political, and philosophical surface expressions in her recent exhibition at 516 Arts.
516 ARTS
516 ARTS is an independent, nonprofit arts venue in the center of Downtown Albuquerque. The 5,500 square foot, two-story gallery is a unique, hybrid somewhere between a gallery and museum.
Brett Williams: Memory Old and New at Bruno David Gallery
Memory Old and New continues Brett Williams's abiding interest in the absurdities of contemporary modes of communication in the form of a mini audiovisual monument at Bruno David Gallery.
Art Plus Time
Has economics become the dominant mode of artistic action of our time? From Sotheby's and e-flux, to W.A.G.E. and Free Cooper Union, the market, protest movements, and the model of the artist-as-entrepreneur threatens to overwhelm art’s social and aesthetic aims.
What Post-Artists Make Happen
Artists feel stuck: under-recognized for all the activities they are actually doing and over-commodified as the great force behind “hipsterism." Resistance seems futile.
Michelle Blade and Hillary Wiedemann: A Willing Transfer of Belief at Johansson Projects
In “A Willing Transfer of Belief” at Johansson Projects, Michelle Blade and Hillary Wiedemann present works that investigate the intangibility of being and light.
A Room Without a View?
Architectural Historian Michael Allen addresses the intersections of community art and "placemaking" and the complications these cause when played out on our cities.