Deadlines & Headlines
News on NYFA Fellow David Opdyke, NYFA Fiscally Sponsored artist Jim Bauer, and four NYFA artists who recently were awarded Joan Mitchell Foundation fellowships. Plus, a selection of upcoming grant and...
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NYFA Currents Deadlines & Headlines section regularly provides listings of upcoming grant, award, and residency deadlines as well as information on upcoming NYFA events and news on NYFA artists....
View ArticleArtists on their Work in the 2008 Whitney Biennial
Five artistsFia Backstrom, Joe Bradley, Kevin Jerome Everson, Amanda Ross Ho, and Heather Rowespeak about the work they're including in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
View ArticleMark Boswell on the Decline of White Tower
Artist Mark Boswell, author of the 2001 video Secret Manual of the Soviet Politburger writes on the MIT Press' re-release of White Tower, a classic book of photographs documenting a now-defunct...
View ArticleWendy Walker and Tom La Farge on Constrained Writing
Writers Wendy Walker and Tom La Farge on the notion of constrained writing, something they teach in workshops at Proteus Gowanus in Brooklyn. Inspired by Oulipo writers like Raymond Queneau and...
View ArticleSarah Lehrer-Graiwer on Chris Lipomis CaVe
A report from Los Angeles on artist Chris Lipomi's "retrospective" in an underground tunnel beneath Olympic Boulevard.
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NYFA Currents Deadlines & Headlines section regularly provides listings of upcoming grant, award, and residency deadlines, as well as information on upcoming NYFA events and news on NYFA artists....
View ArticleSteve Lambert on The Great Internet Wikimarathon
Steve Lambert reports on The Great Internet Wikimarathon, his global effort to add more contemporary art content to Wikipedia.com. As word of the event caught on, people from Brooklyn to as far away as...
View ArticleAn Interview with Sam Kim: by David Velasco
Choreographer Sam Kim speaks with David Velasco (critic and dancer in Kims dumb dumb bunny) about Self Surgery, her work-in-progress premiering next month at Brooklyn Art Exchange, as well as horror...
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NYFA Currents Deadlines & Headlines section regularly provides listings of upcoming grant, award, and residency deadlines as well as information on upcoming NYFA events and news on NYFA artists....
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NYFA Currents Deadlines & Headlines section regularly provides listings of upcoming grant, award, and residency deadlines as well as information on upcoming NYFA events and news on NYFA artists....
View ArticleDavid Benjamin on the Beauty of Power, the Power of Beauty
Architect David Benjamin considers the surprising beauty of two clean-energy projectsa sky-high solar-thermal power plant in the rural fields outside Seville, and a kinetic hydropower system hidden...
View ArticleAn Interview with Con Edison
Con EdisonNew York City and Westchester County's energy provider and sponsor of NYFA Currents Green Issuespeaks about the companys environmental innovations and the green actions that individuals...
View ArticleArt as Intervention: A Roundtable
In this roundtable discussion, NYFA-sponsored artists Eve Mosher, Xavier Cortada, and Brooke Singerand E.J. McAdams, board member of the nonprofit iLanddiscuss the makings of social-art projects that...
View ArticleSusanne Cockrell and Ted Purves on Lemon Everlasting Backyard Battery
A surplus harvest of lemons in San Jose, CA, is transformed into Lemon Everlasting Backyard Battery, Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves's installation and tasting event celebrating the potential of...
View ArticleAndrea Polli on Ground Truth
Andrea Polli reflects on a recent trip to Antartica and its impact on Ground Truth, her multimedia work in progress that utilizes sound and visualization to measure and record global climate change.
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NYFA Current: the Green IssueFor this special issue of NYFA Current, artists from around the U.S. speak about their social-art projects that confront global warming and other pressing issues in our...
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NYFA Currents Deadlines & Headlines section regularly provides listings of upcoming grant, award, and residency deadlines as well as information on upcoming NYFA events and news on NYFA artists....
View ArticleMaria Colòn on selections from NMAI's Film + Video Festival
The surprising standouts at last month's National Museum of the American Indian's 2009 Film + Video Festival were low-budget works produced by Native youth under the umbrella of two nonprofit advocacy...
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