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.
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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.
MINT and Young Blood: A Conversation with Erica Jamison

MINT and Young Blood: A Conversation with Erica Jamison

We spoke with MINT founder and new owner of Young Blood Boutique, Erica Jamison, about recently announced plans for the two Atlanta galleries.
The Object Group

The Object Group

The Object Group is an Atlanta-based ensemble devising interactive performance installations starting from resonant objects manipulated in space.
Eyedrum

Eyedrum

Eyebeam is a long-standing artist-run gallery and performance booking organization that works with spaces across Atlanta.
WonderRoot

WonderRoot

Starting off our feature on Atlanta is a profile on regional partner WonderRoot.
A Time for Manifestoes: The Year in Review

A Time for Manifestoes: The Year in Review

The beginning of the year is a time for manifestoes. We look back at 2012 and sketch out what is ahead in our year in review.
Public Functionary: A Prologue

Public Functionary: A Prologue

James McAnally speaks with Tricia Khutoretsky, the Director and Curator of new Minneapolis gallery space Public Functionary, about the gallery's vision of socially-engaged exhibitions that extend beyond the gallery.
Plaster Dust and Polemics: The Other Public of the MDW Fair

Plaster Dust and Polemics: The Other Public of the MDW Fair

This isn't the piece I would want to write, but somewhere there has to be a wager made that perhaps there is a failure on the part of art writers to develop language to address something with a vision alterior to their own.
Ideas of Order at COCA

Ideas of Order at COCA

Curator Jessica Baran conjures a productive disarray of domestic and found objects from St. Louis artists Gina Alvarez, John Early, Wonder Koch, and Peter Pranschke.