The two
kinds of alternative space back then had something very much in common, the fierce urgency of now.
Not exact matches
As this issue
of ARTnews went to press, the Pioneer Works
space in Red Hook, Brooklyn, was preparing an «
Alternative Art School Fair,» a
kind of job fair for these types
of schools.
The Sunroom Project
Space provides an
alternative to the
kind of white - box setting a contemporary gallery might typically offer.
Several works here are by artists included in the historic Ninth Street Exhibition
of 1951, mounted by Vicente and other Club members in a building that was slated for demolition — a
kind of proto -
alternative space that shifted attention away from the commercial galleries
of 57th Street to the downtown artists» scene.
Even the Modern's
alternative space out in Queens, P.S. 1, made «greater New York» into a
kind of citywide art shopping mall.
By recording and documenting those on the edges, or outside
of the mainstream, the images in Another
Kind of Life bear witness to how social attitudes change across time and
space, charting how visual representation has helped shape current discourse in relation to marginalised or
alternative communities.
Another was «Macho Man Tell It to My Heart: Collected by Julie Alt,» an exhilarating exhibition
of contemporary works accumulated by Ms. Ault, an inveterate
alternative - art worlder, organized at SoHo's Artists
Space, where, for better and for worse, every show is some
kind of departure from the exhibition form.
«
Alternative space came to mean a particular
kind of organizational structure that is now outdated,» said Mary Ceruti, executive director
of Long Island City's SculptureCenter.
Also in 2017, at the Detroit
alternative exhibition
space What Pipeline, the artist launched a simple but loaded project: He took lead - damaged water from Flint, Michigan, bottled it, and sold the results as a
kind of unhealthy readymade.
WK: Do you see many
alternative spaces that foster that
kind of environment for young activists now, or do you think it's changed?
We believe that this is an
alternative to ICOs that the crypto
space has been looking for, as only serious companies will want to use this
kind of fundraising tool.