Traveling by car across the country the terrain along the main highways all begins to look more or less the same; the first thing to change is the weather, closely followed by the companies and businesses noted on billboards, in store windows, at gas stations. A difference between either coast and the states that [...]

  Staring upward into Anish Kapoor’s queasily municipal Bean, we begin to wonder whether we’re getting our point across. In Chicago, as was the case in Pittsburgh, the Q & A following our presentation quickly devolves into the bitter battles of institutional politics. The plight of the adjunct professor, the exclusionary expense of art school [...]

We rolled up to a rolling campus teaming with teams playing soccer and engineering students attempting cricket and lone gunmen noodling acoustic guitars in fair weather, banners for professional conferences and posters for our best friends’ bands’ gigs at the Brillo Box. This is Carnegie Mellon. Black and yellow, black and yellow. Jon meets us [...]

Two hours outside of New York City, our fair nation’s commercial fine art mecca, Philadelphia’s art scene is built on the backs of non-profits, alternative spaces, and a few prominent art schools. As we learned from the conversation generously hosted by Vox Populi, a twenty-three-year-old collectively organized exhibition space, most of the funding for these [...]