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News
This week, the Whitney Biennial opens but Occupy Wall Street's Arts and Labor working group has already started to question the usefulness of the exhibition for artists and cultural workers, many of whom are unpaid to participate.
Opinion
In their quest for a unified logo, the Occupy Movement sifted through 8,319 submissions from 1,591 designers until they agreed upon a minimal design by maspoji™ — and no, we're not sure if the trademark symbol is ironic or not.
Interview
Walking through galleries filled with reproductions of posters, flyers, takeaways and other ephemera rather than torn and yellowed scraps of archival materials, I spoke with Gran Fury member and artist Marlene McCarty and 80 Washington Square East Gallery assistant director and curator Michael Cohen
Art
Yesterday, the Occupy Wall Street Arts & Culture Working Group, facilitated by the Space Team, began a 2-mo residency at Hyperallergic HQ in Williamsburg. The first activity will be a potluck event that takes place tomorrow, Friday, February 3.
News
Last Friday, January 27, an otherwise uneventful evening of art-gazing was interrupted when Occupy Museums, a subgroup of Occupy Wall Street, made its way to midtown Manhattan to give MoMA visitors a lot more to see than they paid for when the movement infiltrated the institution's atrium.
Opinion
Let the class-based anxieties begin! The New York Times has published a useful tool to quickly and easily to figure out where you fit into the great pyramid of wealth in this country.
News
Occupy Wall Street's Arts and Culture group has so far been able to align itself with prominent artists and organizations around New York, and now Yoko Ono, a major inspiration for OWS you could say, will join the ranks.
Opinion
What is so common that it can be a platform for your work? One project, Occupy George (as in Washington), has found their solution, money.
Art
Last night, I attended Feeling the Shape of the Arts Economy, a forum for discussion organized by Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) at Artists Space.
Interview
This Wednesday, January 11, Arts and Culture groups from Occupy movements around the country will have the chance to meet over the phone. In a national conference call planned for 7pm, the groups will introduce themselves, propose projects and join forces on plans for the future of Occupy.
News
Since the raid on Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park last month, the movement and related working groups have been searching for a new space to call home. Many have had their eye on Duarte Square, a vacant lot on Sixth Avenue and Canal Street that is comprised of both public and private land. While
Art
Since the raid on Occupy Wall Street's home in Zuccotti Park, news on the Arts and Culture front of the movement has slowed down a bit. Yet one OWS art topic that has yet to receive much attention are the films created by protesters and affiliated artists that express and document the uprising of th