Projects tagged
Arts & Culture
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No Home Gallery
Read more: No Home GalleryNo Home Gallery is a traveling gallery that curates exhibitions and happenings in various living and studio spaces in New York City. In an attempt to make contemporary art accessible and inviting, No Home offers emerging artists and art enthusiasts…
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ALT/Space: Teaching Artists Stories from the Field
Read more: ALT/Space: Teaching Artists Stories from the FieldIn this space, Teaching Artist contributors from around the U.S. and the world bring you stories of their work at the crossroads of art and learning. The stories that our bloggers bring to ALT/space are born inside the practice of…
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China’s Underground Hiphop
Read more: China’s Underground HiphopChina’s underground hiphop became an art movement since early 2000s. With characteristics of self-expression, localization and social criticism, Chinese hip hop music quickly gained popularity among students and working-class Chinese. Some notable music groups from Beijing include Yin Ts’ang (隐藏)…
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Potatoe Walkout
Read more: Potatoe Walkout“Potatoe Walkout” is a series of art installations located outside public food venues, featuring potatoes and cucumbers outfitted in sunglasses, picket signs, umbrellas, and other objects (depending on the depicted scene, which varies). Some scenes represent protest, others represent army…
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The Art World’s New Gang War
Read more: The Art World’s New Gang WarThe Nahmads have been dealers in Modern art since Giuseppe Nahmad set up in Milan in 1957. But they have been the Warren Buffetts of the business, sticking to the tried and true. Now Joseph Nahmad, one of Giuseppe’s grandsons,…
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Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
Read more: Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown ArmyTo some, the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) might appear to be but a ragged bunch of activists sporting false noses, a smudge of grease paint, camouflage pants and bad wigs. And those people may be right. But it…
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cheLA
Read more: cheLAMost cheLA activities are organized around a series of workshops, which may act in combination, are designed as areas of aesthetic, technological and theoretical concentration, and structured to promote their development. Its core activities are research and experimentation residences. As…
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The Black Cinema House
Read more: The Black Cinema HouseBlack Cinema House hosts screenings and discussions of films by and about people of the African diaspora, and offers video classes to neighborhood youth, teaching the next generation to make their own films and tell their own stories. External sources:…
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THE BAREFOOT ARTIST
Read more: THE BAREFOOT ARTISTBorn in China in 1941, artist Lily Yeh experienced first-hand the ravages of that country’s civil war when her family became refugees, fleeing to Taiwan as the communists took over. That personal story and the story of Yeh’s global art…
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Art Cannot Provide a Way Out
Read more: Art Cannot Provide a Way OutIn 2006, art historian Claire Bishop lit a fire under the collective seat of the art world with her Artforum piece “The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents.” It set off — as much as any essay in the hermetic…