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 features on artist-run spaces and projects.
Great Rivers Biennial 2012 at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

Great Rivers Biennial 2012 at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

Laura Elizabeth Barone surveys the 2012 Great Rivers Biennial, which provides 3 emerging and midcareer artists significant financial awards and a collaborative exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
Parallel Studios

Parallel Studios

Parallel Studios is a venue for new media artists. Currents 2012: Santa Fe International New Media Festival, featuring single channel video, sound and interactive video installations, multimedia performances and more, will run from June 22 through July 7.
Becoming PLAND

Becoming PLAND

In the midst of personal and professional overextension, I agreed to partner on a land purchase with my friends and colleagues, sisters Erin and Nina Elder. We each put up a few hundred dollars at auction and next thing we knew, we were property owners.
The Tan

The Tan

I hope The Tan is a place that people can think differently about. I hope that people are never bored by something we put on here. I hope that the existence of this space changes what people think might be possible with their own art and in this town.
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ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness

ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness

With hundreds of activities throughout the state of New Mexico and the Southwest region, ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness, the 18th International Symposium for Electronic Art will be one of the largest gatherings addressing the future of art, science, technology, and nature in the United States in recent history.
Larry Krone: Here I Am at PSTL Gallery

Larry Krone: Here I Am at PSTL Gallery

Larry Krone takes the intimate and everyday and makes it present and teeming with energy, writes Laura Elizabeth Barone.
The Laughing Dough: Interview with Elwyn Palmerton

The Laughing Dough: Interview with Elwyn Palmerton

Elwyn Plamerton discusses his recent exhibition, "The Laughing Dough," at SouthFirst Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
RoadsignUSA

RoadsignUSA

Rounding out our month-long feature on Houston, TX, RoadsignUSA is a billboard project by June Woest and Urban Artists.
The Incredible Attack on Grammar, a.k.a. ¡Go, Monterrey, Go!

The Incredible Attack on Grammar, a.k.a. ¡Go, Monterrey, Go!

I've been going back and forth to Mexico to participate in many of these types of writer's gatherings since 2006. Most of the writing "encuentros" have programming that tends toward pretty staid or boring affairs...but not this encuentro.
˚ at the Luminary Center for the Arts

˚ at the Luminary Center for the Arts

Clara Van Zanten reviews ˚ (read "Degree") by Stephen Cartwright and Andrew James, at the Luminary Center for the Arts through May 11.
Tommy Becker: Pages of Video–Tape Number One: Side One at Royal NoneSuch Gallery

Tommy Becker: Pages of Video–Tape Number One: Side One at Royal NoneSuch Gallery

Smartly modeled after a “mixed tape,” Tommy Becker presents an unevenly successful series composed of two sides and twenty-five tracks.
John Waters: Neurotic at McClain Gallery

John Waters: Neurotic at McClain Gallery

When I hear that a celebrity is doing art on the side, I assume it’s terrible.
New Installation: Interview with Joel Shapiro

New Installation: Interview with Joel Shapiro

Joel Shapiro and I sat down for an interview in his New York studio the week before his "New Installation" exhibition at Rice University Art Gallery in Houston, Texas.