In a town where creativity is in the very air that its art-loving residents and visitors breathe, why has it been so difficult to develop even one live-work space for artists?
Even from a distance, it’s clear this massive landscape is deteriorating. Up close, David Opdyke’s mosaic art installation is even scarier. But can this type of intervention—art as environmental activism—make a difference?
Described as “the largest binational metropolitan region in the world,” the cities of San Diego and Tijuana are a study in contrasts. Still, 42 artists are doing their best to foster a cross-border dialogue that underscores historical injustices even as it celebrates human connections.
Based on an in-depth community engagement process, the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission is shifting public funds towards projects that emphasize “the convening power of the arts.”
With the city’s Commission for Arts and Culture in seeming disarray, fixing the funding formula without articulating clear goals might not be the best first step toward.
New York officials want to rezone Governors Island to increase its commercial use, but a group of artists living and working on the island are concerned they’ll be pushed off.
A traveling social art project featured at the NY Art Book Fair celebrates literary works by Black female authors.
Artists and artisans receive help from a nonprofit dedicated to building a national market for works made in West Virginia.
Three Boston artists have been selected to lead six-month projects, each based in a different city department, and each with both art-making and problem-solving goals.
The “art buseum” is a natural extension of the food truck craze—who knew?
