In 2014, the Soul Rebels brass band played a musical manifesto facing a monument to confederate leader Robert E. Lee in New Orleans. Artist william cordova shares the story.
Originally published 2015, and refreshed in 2020, this issue includes conversations with curators, artists, and communities involved in contemporary art biennials in Santa Fe, New Orleans, and Montreal. Explore Issue 1 of our Research Guide, to remember the past and imagine the future of biennial-style exhibitions.
An economic and political system that favors private ownership, capitalism has sparked some profoundly creative pushback. In abandoned bank buildings, failed urban development projects and public squares, we discover artists and their communities in the U.S., Western Europe, South America, and Greece taking on the challenge—as whistleblowers, catalysts, educators, moneymakers, evangelicals, and documentarians.
Follow us to industrial sites where artists, curators, and architects have transformed industrial buildings and landscapes into innovative spaces for art.
Cathy Byrd: Fresh Art International presents conversations about creativity in the 21st century. This is Fresh Art International. I’m Cathy Byrd. No matter where we…
Creating Connections/Sparking Engagement, issue 4 of our Fresh Art International Research Guide, delves into the theme of social engagement.
For three days in September 2016, we streamed a 60-minute live radio show with participating artists from inside the 32nd São Paulo Biennial pavilion.
Miami Moves Me is a Spring 2020 podcast brought to you by a team of University of Miami students. Their stories explore the City’s cultural landscape.
Don and Mera Rubell have been collecting contemporary art since 1964. We recorded with the couple in December 2019, to celebrate the opening of their new museum in Miami. Since then, the coronavirus pandemic has shaken our planet. We recognize the very real sense of before and after as we share these conversations about creativity.
Fresh Art International is here to optimize educational technology for distance learning. Over the past nine years, we’ve produced an expansive archive of globally relevant online content that explores today’s vital issues and ideas. Our episodes feature local, national, and global perspectives on cultural flash points—the environment, the economy, technology and more. When you tap into these resources, you’ll find conversations aligned with the subject(s) you teach. Consider Fresh Art International your discovery channel, a vibrant stream of inspiration designed to engage your students in listening and writing, spark class discussions, and inspire active participation across disciplines.
