Contemporary Art Reviews and Interviews
Dread Scott: To Propel History Forward
"I don't think it's the art by itself that changes the world — but there hasn't been any social movement of progress that I've known of that hasn't had art as a vital component of it."
Beth Lipman on Glass, Abundance, and What We Leave Behind
"To make anything at all is radical. You have asserted something into a discussion that was not there before."
Don't Gentrify the Image: Rick Lowe on Art, Data, and Community
"It didn't make any sense to import artists to live in housing that people in the neighborhood would normally live in. If we could renovate those houses, they should be for the people who live there."
This Past Is Waiting For Us: Kate Haug’s Collaborative Practices at SebArts
By Tamsin Spencer Smith
Suzanne Lacy, Art, Aging, and Accountability
"Have feminists changed the way we think about violence? For sure. Have they changed violence? I don't think so. You keep doing it because you believe in it, not because you think it will."
Caledonia Curry (Swoon) on Art, Trauma, and Healing
"Unconscious and buried pain is like a coiled spring. Most of the time, all that stuff does is ruin your life — but every once in a while, directed the right way, it becomes great art."
