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05/20/2015

Great news for the Brooklyn Museum

Ms. Pasternak, the president of Creative Time, will be the first woman to head one of New York City’s encyclopedic art museums.

05/18/2015

On view at Flux through tomorrow, May 19: Hands Up, "an interactive installation that explores law enforcement’s relationship with people of color" by simulating gunfire when participants raise their hands over their heads. Note the NYPD union's violent response: http://nydn.us/1HctZXT

07/31/2014

Just released: the second edition of What We Want Is Free, edited by Ted Purves and Shane Aslan Selzer. Thrilled to have an essay included among so many insightful pieces, and excited to feature projects by Lucas Murgida, Christopher Robbins, Ghana ThinkTank, Michael Parker, Alyse Emdur, the Los Angeles Urban Rangers, Brindalyn Webster, Llano Del Rio Collective, and Paul Ramirez Jonas.

Explores how contemporary artists use gifts, barter, and other forms of nonmonetary exchange as a means and medium of artistic production. This revised edition of What We Want Is Free examines a twenty-year history of artistic productions that both model and occupy the various forms of exchange w...

05/23/2014

It's time! Landfill Issue 4 ships now. It's a good one, thanks to Piero Passacantando, Shannon Finnegan, Jessica Gath, Gabriel Saloman, Christopher Robbins, Ven Gist, and Nick Hurd.

05/17/2014

Issue 4 artists and co-presenters Piero and Shannon in the Landfill Reading Room at Open Engagement. Post-it brainstorm byproducts in the background 👍

05/14/2014

The new guide from Llano del Rio maps utopian communities in Southern California. LA-based friends of Landfill: you'll want one of these, and they're free!

Free Guide #4 Available Now- Utopias of So.Cal. Also Related events at Santa Monica Museum through July As the present moment appears fixed in the destructive-ideology of hyper-capitalism this gui...

05/13/2014

Landfill relaunches this weekend with a new site design by Ven Gist. Sneak peek at the "read more" button here—more to come soon!

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05/10/2014

Getting ready for Open Engagement next weekend. Less than a week 'til the Issue 4 release!

05/01/2014

New today on the Archive: stress balls from MyNerva, Piero Passacantando's nomadic research center devoted to exploring corporate structures. Get yours as part of Issue 4, forthcoming this month.

To cultivate introspection and connection in a space known for engendering anxiety and detachment, MyNerva variously took the form of an office party, corporate retreat, and collaborative brainstorming session.

04/10/2014

This Saturday: a symposium on the terms of engagement within social practices. Looking forward to hearing from Sally Szwed, Marc Herbst, and others:

The symposium responds to the urgent need to build on the very rich and prolific contemporary discussions about such practices by carefully examining how, to what end, and on whose terms engagement with communities outside of art takes place.

04/10/2014

If the recent issue of Art Practical rings true, register now for the practicum organized by the Arts Research Center:

In April, ARC will present Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Practicum. This event will include a series of artist-led workshops that develop exercises, prompts, or actions that engage questions of art, labor, and economics; it will also include a series of commissioned writings by critics and researcher...