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Political Art from the Bottom Up is our monthly e-newsletter which features original coverage of artists, events, works, exhibitions, and more by Groundswell writers and an international network of artists, curators, and critics.

Groundswell Issue 00: Crisis Folklore

Issue 00 contributors respond to the inherent and overlapping crises that form the surface of our smoothed-out world, from the climate to vacant land and home foreclosures.

In places, we imagine the post-capitalist future of the cultures and (infra)structures we're building, while elsewhere we recount the stories we know we'll tell.

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Published August 5, 2011 Artists, Events, Works, Exhibitions
James David Morgan

The Creative Time Summit: Living As Form

The Creative Time Summit: Living As Form

Creative Time will realize its most ambitious project yet this fall, with its third annual summit and the opening of Living As Form, a show by 25 curatorial advisers surveying more than 350 socially engaged projects.

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Published August 3, 2011 Features
James David Morgan

Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance to be Built Atop a Muslim Graveyard

Jerusalem's Museum of Tolerance to be Built Atop a Muslim Graveyard

The Israeli interior ministry recently authorized construction to begin on Jerusalem’s Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance despite protestations that its siting will violate the historic Ma’man Allah, or the Mamilla Cemetery.

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Published July 12, 2011 Features, Topos 01 - Land/Property
James David Morgan

Pro-Bono Design Work as a Protective Layer for Capitalism – Scapegoat Journal’s Issue 01: Service

Pro-Bono Design Work as a Protective Layer for Capitalism - Scapegoat Journal's Issue 01: Service

Scapegoat Journal’s Issue 01: Service charges that the charity acts of designers, artists, and architects are, they claim, a neoliberal stand-in for for the state.

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Published July 6, 2011 Artists, Events, Works, Exhibitions
James David Morgan

Fuse Magazine, Performing Politics for 35 Years

Fuse Magazine, Performing Politics for 35 Years

Fuse Magazine turns 35 this year, and to celebrate, its new edition reviews several decades of the most stirring authorship contributed to Canada’s foremost critical periodical on art, culture, and politics.

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Published July 5, 2011 Features, Work by Groundswell
James David Morgan

Sean Martindale Explores the Politics of Place with Love The Future / Free Ai Weiwei at Whippersnapper Gallery

Sean Martindale Explores the Politics of Place with Love The Future / Free Ai Weiwei at Whippersnapper Gallery

Groundswell was recently invited to contribute an exhibition essay for Sean Martindale’s Love the Future / Free Ai Weiwei, a sculptural installation at Whippersnapper Gallery through the end of this month.

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