The Complete Guide to 2018 Artist Grants and Opportunities
Making art can be an expensive and, at times, unpredictable living. Securing grants can not only give you an extra line or two on your CV, it can provide the stability and resources you need...

The Complete Guide to 2018 Artist Grants and Opportunities 

Making art can be an expensive and, at times, unpredictable living. Securing grants can not only give you an extra line or two on your CV, it can provide the stability and resources you need to be your most creative self. To help you get started, we’ve rounded up some amazing grants to apply for in 2018, with details like amounts, deadlines, and specific artist fields included. (via Artwork Archive)

What Does the Next Wave of Development Mean for Bushwick Artists?
As the neighborhood’s commercial real estate turns over to lure tech companies, many artists will have to look further east for affordable studio space.
Bushwick’s art scene is no...

What Does the Next Wave of Development Mean for Bushwick Artists?

As the neighborhood’s commercial real estate turns over to lure tech companies, many artists will have to look further east for affordable studio space. 

Bushwick’s art scene is no longer its primary attraction — not when restaurants like Roberta’s and Bunker draw diners from Manhattan and beyond, while the Knockdown Center and House of Yes quickly build a global following.

Tensions have simmered for much of the past decade between Bushwick’s longtime Latino and African American residents and artists who moved into the area. But as more people discover the neighborhood’s charms, investors pour money into projects that increase property values and eventually force long-time residents and artists to leave for good.

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An Unflinching Meditation on the Violence Perpetrated Against Black Americans

In addition to the centuries of trauma that artists are exploring and attempting to reconcile with contemporary reality, there is also an underlying solidarity that weaves itself into the fabric of Non-fiction at the Underground Museum. Hyunjee Nicole Kim of Hyperallergic explores the Underground Museum of Los Angeles.

Non-fiction continues at The Underground Museum (3508 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles) through March 2017. 

Your Concise Guide to the 2016 Bushwick Open Studios

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Bushwick Open Studios is entering its tenth year. Here is a handy guide via Hyperallergic to all of the openings and events.

BLACK BODIES, WHITE CUBES: THE PROBLEM WITH CONTEMPORARY ART’S APPROPRIATION OF RACE
By Taylor Renee Aldridge — In December 2015, while at Art Basel Miami Beach, I was scrolling through my Instagram feed when I found a video of a large inflated...

BLACK BODIES, WHITE CUBES: THE PROBLEM WITH CONTEMPORARY ART’S APPROPRIATION OF RACE

By Taylor Renee Aldridge — In December 2015, while at Art Basel Miami Beach, I was scrolling through my Instagram feed when I found a video of a large inflated object. The object was a body, lying face down, on its stomach. It was a black subject, male, and large. The sculpture, I learned, was called Laocoön , by artist Sanford Biggers, and was part of a solo exhibition at the David Castillo Gallery in a wealthy neighborhood of Miami Beach. The work depicts Fat Albert, from Bill Cosby’s Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, and so it was dressed in a red shirt and blue pants. I watched the video for a moment and saw that the body was inflating and deflating slowly, like a person who was having trouble breathing, or perhaps experiencing his last breaths. I thought of Michael Brown. I thought of black lives. I thought of death. Then I noticed that in the video, the body was surrounded by a festive group of gallery goers, sipping wine, taking pictures of the panting body. The scene was grotesque. I thought, Not again.

Many contemporary artists respond to instances of police brutality, racism, xenophobia, and homophobia through their creative practices. In the wake of the recent attack on the LGBT community in Orlando, for instance, the art community rallied around the victims. Pioneer Works in Brooklyn held a vigil concert.Terence Koh recited the names of the Orlando victims in a meditative performance at Andrew Edlin gallery. Hank Willis Thomas posted a photo on his Instagram of an enormous flag he’d made featuring some 13,000 stars—one for every victim of gun violence in the U.S. in 2015.

As new political movements like Black Lives Matter have gained influence in recent years, social practice has risen in stature and popularity in the art world. This has contributed to the hypervisibility of cultures that have, for a long time, operated along the margins—consider how integral the work of Theaster Gates has become to at risk communities in the South Side of Chicago, or how Project Row Houses by Rick Lowe, taking inspiration from Joseph Beuys, has helped revitalize a section of Houston’s Third Ward. But there is a new wave of contemporary work influenced by racial injustices, one that has arisen in the last two years and is decidedly more sensational, predominantly focusing on pain and trauma inflicted upon the black body. Artists have made systemic racism look sexy; galleries have made it desirable for collectors. It has, in other words, gone mainstream. With this paradoxical commercial focus, political art that responds to issues surrounding race is in danger of becoming mere spectacle, a provocation marketed for consumption, rather than a catalyst for social change. (full article here)

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From Eric Garner to Philando Castile: Subway Mural to the Victims of Police Brutality

A reason to write. A reason to protest. More reasons to change the system, to confront institutional racism and brutality.  #Love it! this series, #Hate it! the reality that continues to feed it.

Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition

Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition

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Lister in Chelsea