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How One Conservative City Supports Numerous Progressive Artists
Given Colorado Springs’s politics and hyper-conservatism, wouldn’t artists hesitate to make and perform work there?
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Julia Weist’s “Public Record” Probes the Impact of Artists on Cities
As a resident for the NYC Department of Records and Information Services, Weist explored the relationship between the city and its artists as documented in these vast municipal archives.
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On a Brooklyn Playground, Connecting Antigone and Michael Brown
On July 15, NYC Public Artist in Residence Bryan Doerries will explore the resonance between Antigone and the killing of Michael Brown.
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Austin Becomes Newest US City to Introduce Artist-in-Residence Program
The nine-month residency will have the artist respond to specific issues identified by a civic department.
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Boston Builds an Artist-in-Residence Program, Bringing Creativity to City Hall
BOSTON — It's snowing hard outside, and it's a Saturday, but the second-floor hallway of the city's newest municipal building — its school department headquarters — is filled with artists and bureaucrats.
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Neither Under Construction Nor Complete
CHICAGO — We’re now a quarter of the way through Scottish artist Martin Creed’s year-long “residency” at the MCA Chicago. I put “residency” in quotation marks because Creed is only going to be here sporadically throughout 2012. So far, the MCA has put one new work by Creed on display each month, non
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Poetically Mundane Scottish Minimalist Lands in Chicago
CHICAGO — Martin Creed is a Scottish artist who won the British Turner Prize in 2001, but he is less well known in the United States. That might change in 2012, when Creed will be the artist in residence at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) for the whole year.