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Shadowshop: Recipe for Boiling Water
Shadowshop: Recipe for Boiling Water – by Renny Pritikin on SFMOMA Open Space. On rare occasions an event—a talk, a blog post, an exhibition—raises an issue that had been slowly making the local water hotter, but gone unremarked. Suddenly with this event the pot is boiling and everyone has something to say. It makes for [...]
Notes on Alternative Autonomy: by Christian L. Frock
Notes on Alternative Autonomy: by Christian L. Frock Originally posted on Art Practical This article is presented in conjunction with “Shop Talk,” a three-part series of conversations beginning on March 24 to be held at SFMOMA and organized collaboratively with SFMOMA’s Open Space blog. The series will focus on survival strategies artists develop and adopt [...]
Callie Curry aka Swoon
From Printeresting Right before the new year, Brooklyn-based street artist/punk rock raft designer Callie Curry, better known as Swoon, gave a presentation for TEDx at Pratt. A little over a decade ago, Callie began her art career at Pratt studying painting. Though she loved the art form, she was more than a little uneasy about [...]
Dark Matter: Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere
Dark Matter: Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere by Gregory Sholette Contemplate the destabilizing impact on high art if hobbyists and amateurs were to stop purchasing art supplies. Consider also the structural ”darkness” within which most professionally trained artists actually exist. Yet, given the proportionally few individuals who achieve visibility within the formalized institutions of [...]
Terra Cotta Heritage Museum, NC
Dennis Waddell, who lived in Terra Cotta as a boy, has opened the Terra Cotta Heritage Museum in a brick house at 504 Norwalk St, Greensboro, NC. Soon, The Super G Experiential Residency Program will be coordinating a public tour with Dennis so that we can see the Museum and learn more about his mission [...]
Girl Chewing Gum
John Smith was strongly influenced by the Structural Materialist ideas which dominated British artists’ filmmaking during his formative years, but also fascinated by the immersive power of narrative and the spoken word, he has developed a body of work which deftly subverts the perceived boundaries between documentary and fiction, representation and abstraction. Drawing upon the [...]
Notes On Social Architectures As Art Forms – Sal Randolph
The term ‘social architecture’ is used by Beuys briefly and interchangeably with ‘social sculpture’ but the two metaphors have interestingly different implications.

