Conversations & Resources
We envision a world where art and artists take up an expanded role in society as catalysts for social change. Here, we offer critical insight into how we are creating that world.
Explore our collection of essays, conversations, goings-on, and practical resources for artists.
Readings
Greg Sholette: Public Art, Protest, and 21st-Century Politics, Part II
“The dream of direct digital democracy did not die so much as deflate.”
Readings
Ernesto Pujol: Building Consciousness and Community Amid Crisis
An excerpt from an interview with Ernesto Pujol on vulnerability and ethics.
Readings
Jessica Lynne: Autobiography, Photography, and Moving Beyond the Singular ‘I’
“To be concerned with the self or the autobiographical is inherently to attend to the relationships of power around which we negotiate, that impress upon us.”
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Greg Sholette: Public Art, Protest, and 21st-Century Politics, Part I
“We are witnessing today the full-on return of socially engaged cultural activism.”
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Kirk Savage: What Kind Of Monuments Do We Want?
“Each time we pass by, the monument tacitly calls for a choice: do we accept and obey its supremacy, or do we reject and resist it?”
Project Extra
A Year of Public Water
More Art launches a Year of Public Water, a project by artist Mary Mattingly that examines the complex history of NYC's drinking watershed, bringing attention to the often unseen labor that people, along with our broader ecological community, undertake to care for our water.
