In Review: Cultural Elites and their Paychecks, Interference 2010, DIYing the Work Projects Administration, The Arts Politic Contemplates Bias
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] [...]
In Review: GenderArtNet, Critical Strategies in Art & Media, and Sheepless
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 [...]
They Are All Our Daughters! / Todas Son Nuestras Hijas!
In commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Toward Women and Girls, five SF Bay Area artist/activist groups are staging a public multi-arts performance, including appearances by Judy Grahn, MamaCoAtl, SF Mayor Mayor Gavin Newsom, and Nina Serrano, among others. Image source. They Are All Our Daughters! / Todas Son Nuestras Hijas! [...]
The Advantage and Disadvantage of Zine
(Anne Elizabeth Moore is an author, editor, artist, teacher, and Groundswell guest blogger. She divides her time between Chicago and Cambodia, where she teaches young women the art of self-publishing.) Perhaps by accident, Groundswell has invited someone who thinks obsessively about text and vocabulary and dialogue and communication to contribute to its mostly visual pages. [...]
EveryBody!: Visual Resistance in Feminist Health Movements, 1969-2009
Christa Donner‘s work will be on display at EveryBody! Chicago’s I Space Gallery will host a retrospective of the visual culture of the United States Women’s Health Movement this September 11-October 10, 2009. EveryBody!, curated by Bonnie Fortune, includes contemporary and historical works, beginning with posters, ephemera, and literature of the late 1960s-1970s. The show [...]
