In collaboration with Art of the Rural, we continue our Outskirts feature with an essay on art that speaks from our local cultures to the modern economic and global realities of our places.
New World Embassy: Rojava
The Work of the Institution in an Age of Professionalization
Slow Criticism: Art in the Age of Post-Judgement
Movement Building for Beginners
Belaboring the Fringe: in lieu of an Artist Statement
Sustainability is not Solidarity: Superscript & the Economies of Art Writing
Muse as Critic, Returning the Gaze from the Pedestal
No one cares about art criticism: Advocating for an embodiment of the avant garde as an alternative to capitalism
Essays
Articles
The ambitious new Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas offers a complicated and conflicted projection of its public and its collections.
SITE Santa Fe, my home city’s premiere contemporary art exhibition space, has a good track record with moving images.
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.
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.
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.
My idea of the Houston art scene still remains plastic, as I continue to discover new communities. Houston, after all, just recently surpassed NYC as the most diverse city in the United States.
Netta Sadovsky writes that pop-up shows, temporary convergences of artists, communities, and unusual spaces, are on the rise in St. Louis.