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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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.
Altered Institutions

Altered Institutions

Here is third in our series reports from the “Outer Regions: Roundtables and Public Panel Discussion.” This audio essay focuses on the third roundtable, “Altered Institutions,” which included Nikki Hamblin, founder of PROJEXx Studio and Gallery in Johnson City, TN.
Seed Space

Seed Space

Seed Space is an artist-run, non-profit lab for site-specific installation, sculpture, video and performance-based work in Nashville.
threesquared

threesquared

Located in the historic Chestnut Square building, threesquared is a contemporary art space dedicated to showcasing artists working nationally and internationally in a variety of media.
COOP

COOP

Coop is a curatorial collective made up of artists, curators, thinkers and professors who are committed to expanding Nashville’s dialogue with contemporary art by presenting challenging new or under-represented artists/artworks in the community.
Marginal Utility

Marginal Utility

Marginal Utility is a non-profit gallery that presents the work of locally and internationally recognized emerging and established artists through exhibitions, publications, editions and events.
Vox Populi

Vox Populi

Founded in 1988, Vox Populi is an artist collective that works to support the challenging and experimental work of under-represented artists with monthly exhibitions, gallery talks, performances, lectures, and related programming.
Grizzly Grizzly

Grizzly Grizzly

We are a collective of sharp edges, committed to frank discussion and unexpected pairings. We do not strive for consensus; we do not show our own work in the space. We are artists curating other artists, supporting a community of makers from within.
Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA) is an artist-run, not-for-profit space founded with the goal to connect the Philadelphia art scene to the global art community by showing the work of emerging artists from Philadelphia as well as other cities.