“Invisible Cities presents a selection of artists’ interpretations of the built environment and its reflection in our emotional, psychological, and intellectual lives while musing on the city’s extended life in the imagination and in our dreams, conjuring up new images of both our past and future.” - exhibition at Mass MoCA — “*Invisible Cities* presents a selection of artists’ interpretations of the built environment and its reflection in our emotional, psychological, and intellectual lives while musing on the city’s extended life in the imagination and in our dreams, conjuring up new images of both our past and future.” - exhibition at Mass MoCA

Gustave Caillebotte: Paris Street, Rainy Day. 1877

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

The artist traveled with a blue neon billboard that read ENJOY POVERTY and worked with Congolese photographers, teaching them how to sell images of suffering to Western media and aid agencies.

Review of Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization

(via We Make Money Not Art)

In exchange for struggling in the crowded city, the poorest artist can be enriched by the ideas circulating for free. from “Art and Urban Density” by James Panero

ArtPlace believes that art, culture and creativity expressed powerfully through place can create vibrant communities, thus increasing the desire and the economic opportunity for people to thrive in place. “About” - ArtPlace

Psychasthenia: a physical and mental state wherein the body is incapable of distinguishing itself from the space it occupies. The borders of the body, where it meets space, are no longer defined and one perceives oneself as “swallowed up” by space and transparent to the point of invisibility.

Excerpt from: “Walking Los Angeles: From Documentation to Performance”

by Sara Wookey

› DoTank: Brooklyn

Direct action and creative-oriented urbanism