Jacob Chamberlain deliberates on public art and integrity at Provisions Library
Built to Thrive | We often wonder how and why some terrible ideas manage to stick and survive. Shareable is hosting a forum to get at how good ideas can do the same. [Shareable]
Speaking of Thriving | Red Sun Press, our local movement print shop, did a short video protesting the Chamber of Commerce. [Red Sun Press]
Urban Bumpkins | The Berwick Research Institute has put out a call for a summertime art encampment, in which homesteaders will create public art installations on the Boston Harbor Islands. [Bumpkin Island Art Encampment]
Put that Where? | Art in Odd Places, a festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life, is accepting submissions. [AIOP Blog]
It’s Just Seeds | Our friend Josh MacPhee is at Red Emma’s in Baltimore tonight at 7PM to talk about Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today. [Red Emma's]
Public Process | Cambridge, MA, is commissioning ten public artists for a mile-long installation on busy Cambridge Street. Proposals range from real-life Twitter birds to the world’s largest potluck. [Cambridge Arts Council]
Get Lucky | Since capital is in crisis, UK-based artists have joined forces, in hopes of hitting the big one. [Artists' Lottery Syndicate]
Repeat Offenders | A favorite project around here, Trade School, (previously) finished in February, but the organizers are hoping for a comeback, and they need the funds to re-open in September. [Donate to Trade School]
Go Practice | Scientists now say that street art “elicits meaningful discussion.” [UPI]
This week’s review is a pop quiz! Sharpen your #2 pencils, open new browser tabs, and breathe a sigh of relief because we’re giving you the answers.
Q: Do you know where Marx wrote Capital?
A: In a museum.
Q: What does anti-fascist photomontage look like?
A: This is what anti-fascist photomontage looks like.
Q: What is the PostNatural Organism of the Month?
A: E. Coli x1776
Q: How do you hack corporate culture?
A: Take the advice of the Yes Men.
Q: Who was the recipient of the Anne Elizabeth Moore Award for Excellence in Awesomeness?
A: The venerable Laurie Jo Reynolds!
For the last two months artists have been floating around New York City on the Waterpod, a 3,000-square-foot experiment in community living and artistry. Just don’t call it Burning Man – that happens later this month.
Apropos of the recent discussions of right-wing street art, the LA Times opines about KKK quilts, the veritable antithesis of radical cross-stitch.
Trevor Paglen makes the invisible visible and fashionable.
Critical Network is “keen to promote critical and contextual art, events and discussion,” just like we are. Highly recommended – great work!
Teenage Texans crafted an impressive living newspaper on immigration, and Katie Kurtz put forward the first part of her Proposal Toward Visual Eco-Criticism.
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