Temporary Art Review is a platform for contemporary art criticism that focuses on alternative spaces and critical exchange among disparate art communities. Temporary is a national network, highlighting both practical and theoretical discourse through exhibition reviews, interviews, essays and profiles on artist-run spaces and projects.
Grin City Collective

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.
Molleindustria: An Interview with Paolo Pedercini

Molleindustria: An Interview with Paolo Pedercini

Kim Beck speaks with Paolo Pedercini on gaming, engagement and activism.
Voyage of the Chelyuskin Club: A Conversation with Emily Newman

Voyage of the Chelyuskin Club: A Conversation with Emily Newman

Kim Beck interviews Emily Newman on her project, "Voyage of the Chelyuskin Club," a multi-generational conversation with members of Pittsburgh's Soviet Diaspora.
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Sean Starowitz at the Walnut Place Laundromat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.