In Review: Cultural Elites and their Paychecks, Interference 2010, DIYing the Work Projects Administration, The Arts Politic Contemplates Bias

In Review: Cultural Elites and their Paychecks, Interference 2010, DIYing the Work Projects Administration, The Arts Politic Contemplates Bias

James David Morgan

Adam Friedman’s “No Vestige of a Beginning, No Prospect of and End” (2010) Big Shots | Take a look at the rich, white men at the top rung of the NYC cultural ladder. [NYTimes] DIY WPA | The Work Projects Administration is experiencing a revival, at the hands of public artists and community organizers. [WPA] [...]

Art, Autonomy, and Resistance: The relationship of art to politics today

Art, Autonomy, and Resistance: The relationship of art to politics today

James David Morgan

In the spirit of their mission, Platypus is turning its attentions to the questions we address here: Can art really have a stake in making political change? If so, has contemporary art been at all successful in doing so? How must art’s relationship to politics be understood, and what must be rethought in light of [...]

In Review: Red Sun Press Retrospective, Papercut Zine Library Re-opening, and NYPD Raids Anarchist Film Fest

In Review: Red Sun Press Retrospective, Papercut Zine Library Re-opening, and NYPD Raids Anarchist Film Fest

James David Morgan

Emily Larned’s Stock Project More Repression | NYC cops and Federal agents raided the headquarters of the fourth annual Anarchist Film Fest. [Infoshop] Reason to Celebrate | Our friends at Red Sun Press celebrate 35 years with a retrospective show this May.  Here’s the video (Facebook required) for those who can’t make it to Boston. [...]

In Review: GenderArtNet, Critical Strategies in Art & Media, and Sheepless

In Review: GenderArtNet, Critical Strategies in Art & Media, and Sheepless

James David Morgan

Heather and Ivan Morrison’s How to Survive the Coming Bad Years Sweet Release | Autonomedia’s dropping their new book, Critical Strategies in Art and Media, and throwing a big party. [Eyebeam] Eponymedia | The conference that inspired the book, also titled Critical Strategies in Art and Media, featured Steve Kurtz, Bifo, Brian Holmes, and more.  The [...]

In Review: UK Denies Iraqi Artists, UC Regents Target Ken Ehrlich, and Groundswell Journals Sold Out

In Review: UK Denies Iraqi Artists, UC Regents Target Ken Ehrlich, and Groundswell Journals Sold Out

James David Morgan

The scene at DS4SI’s At Work conversation Wednesday night Oh, so Democratic | The UK Border Agency has denied visas to five artists participating in a group show at Cornerhouse Art Gallery. [Animal] Not One, but Two | Not only Ricardo Dominguez, but also Ken Ehrlich is targeted by the UC Regents, just when it [...]