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The Lolas Speak and Testify: Lolas’ House by M. Evelina Galang
Written on November 10, 2017 at 1:01 pm, by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron
The Defiant Infanta: a review of Chantel Acevedo’s The Living Infinite
Written on November 4, 2017 at 4:11 pm, by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron
What is an Art Basel: Criticality and Criticism in Miami All Year Round
Written on October 21, 2016 at 1:00 pm, by Michelle Lisa
To Make a Public: Artists’ Publications as Partisan Positions
Written on October 19, 2016 at 2:42 pm, by Michelle Lisa
___________________________ 1. Peter Murray in Beatriz Colomina and Craig Buckley, Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines (New York: Actar, 2011), 30. 2. Stefano Boeri in Colomina and Buckley, 49. 3. Gwen Allen, Artists’ Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011), 3. 4. Stephen Perkins, “Alternative Art Publishing: Artists’ Magazines (1960-1980),” Approaching Continue Reading »
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Written on October 17, 2016 at 3:13 pm, by Michelle Lisa
Part A. The Set Up, A Pitch. The 2008 crash forced Contemporary Art (CA) institutions to restructure their financial dependencies and sources; a process that only exaggerated what had started after economic shifts in the 1970’s dried up public funding for the arts and recalibrated those models toward a dependency on corporate sponsorships. In some Continue Reading »
The Dual Power of Arts Organizations
Written on October 14, 2016 at 1:40 pm, by Michelle Lisa
________________________________ 1. See for example the story of “BHAAAD – Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement,” in Los Angeles: http://observer.com/2016/07/one-la-hood-is-violently-fighting-gentrification-demanding-art-galleries-leave/ 2. Frederic Jameson, “The Aesthetics of Singularity,” in: New Left Review 92, March-April 2015, pp. 130-131 3. See: Max Kozloff, “American Painting During The Cold War,” Artforum Vol. 11, No. 9, May 1973 and: Continue Reading »
Let It Decay: Cultural Precarity in the Anthropocene
Written on October 12, 2016 at 1:00 pm, by Michelle Lisa
_____________________________________ 1. Marginal Ecologies: accidental habitat; The unintended product of human activity and nature’s unflagging opportunism; a weedy cosmopolitan community in the wastelands and margins of the urban landscape from a central business district to the suburban/rural fringe. (From Kevin Michael Anderson, Marginal Nature: Urban Wastelands and the Geography of Nature, 2009) 2. Tsing, A. Continue Reading »
How many sides are there? A Meditation on The Many Headed Janus of Gentrification
Written on October 10, 2016 at 1:00 pm, by Michelle Lisa
______________________ This essay was commissioned by the Miami Rail as part of Field Perspectives-a co-publishing initiative with Miami Rail, Temporary Art Review and Common Field for the 2016 Common Field Convening.
The Spaces of Gentrification
Written on October 5, 2016 at 1:00 pm, by Michelle Lisa
______________________________ 1. Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg, Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism (London: Verso Press, 2000), p. 138. 2. Madeleine Schwartz, “The Art of Gentrification,” Dissent (Winter 2014). https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-art-of-gentrification 3. Sharon Zukin, Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), Continue Reading »