About
Creative Time Reports strives to be a global leader in publishing the unflinching and provocative perspectives of artists on the most challenging issues of our times. We distribute this content to the public and media free of charge.
Asserting that culture and the free exchange of ideas are at the core of a vibrant democracy, Creative Time Reports aims to publish dispatches that speak truth to power and upend traditional takes on current issues. We believe that artists play a crucial role as thought leaders in society, and are uniquely capable of inspiring and encouraging a more engaged and informed public, whether they are addressing elections or climate change, censorship or immigration, protest movements or politically motivated violence.
In an era of unprecedented interconnectedness, Creative Time Reports provides artists with a space to voice analysis and commentary on issues too often overlooked by mainstream media. We believe in the importance of highlighting cultural producers’ distinctive viewpoints on world events and urgent issues of social justice to ensure a livelier, more nuanced and more imaginative public debate.
Editorial Team
Editor
Marisa Mazria Katz @MarisaMazriaK
Marisa is a New York-based writer who has covered culture and politics in cities that include Casablanca, Kabul, Port-au-Prince and Istanbul. Her work has been featured in several publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Time, Vogue and the New York Times. In addition to her writing, she runs a U.S. State Department-sponsored program in Casablanca that teaches journalism and blogging to marginalized youth.
Marisa graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1998 with a BFA in Film and Television and in Drama. She has worked on several documentaries and television shows, including Channel 4′s The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall, a docudrama that detailed the killing of a peace activist by an Israeli army sniper; HBO’s By The People: The Election of Barack Obama; and DreamWorks’ Spin City.
Editorial Director
Laura Raicovich @LauraRaicovich
Laura is director of Global Initiatives at Creative Time. Devoted to bringing the ideas of cultural producers who directly engage with issues of social justice into public discourse, Global Initiatives comprises this website; the Creative Time Summit, an annual conference on the intersections of art and social justice; and a Global Residency program that enables artists to address their burning questions by posing them in locations around the world.
Laura’s work at Creative Time follows a decade at Dia Art Foundation, where she served as deputy director, as well as experience at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Public Art Fund. Laura graduated from Swarthmore College and holds a master’s degree in Liberal Studies from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She is also the author of At The Lightning Field, a lyric essay that functions in parallel to Walter De Maria’s renowned artwork of the same name, which will be published as a book in 2013.
Associate Editor
Kareem Estefan @KareemEstefan
Kareem joined Creative Time in summer 2012 after completing an MFA in Art Criticism & Writing at the School of Visual Arts. In addition to his work for Creative Time Reports, Kareem writes about contemporary art and performance for publications including Art in America, Art-Agenda, BOMBlog, and The Brooklyn Rail, and he gives performance-lectures on, and with, conceptual poetry and video art. He is also Program Associate at the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program. Previously, he worked as an editorial assistant at NPR’s Talk of the Nation and hosted a WNYU radio show for conceptually innovative poetry, Ceptuetics, archived at UPenn’s PennSound.
Social Media Editor
Todd Florio @ToddFlorio
Todd believes in the vast educational potential of social media, especially in the hands of arts nonprofits. He holds an M.A. in Museum Studies from New York University and worked in museums for nearly a decade before joining Creative Time.
Creative Time Reports Interns: Lacey Coover, Jennifer Eun and Polina Dubik.
Editorial Advisors
Nato Thompson, chief curator, Creative Time
Since January 2007, Nato has organized major projects for Creative Time such as The Creative Time Summit (2009 and 2010); Paul Ramirez Jonas’s Key to the City (2010); and Jeremy Deller’s It is What It Is, with New Museum curators Laura Hoptman and Amy Mackie (2009). Previously, he worked as Curator at MASS MoCA where he completed numerous large-scale exhibitions. His writings have appeared in numerous publications, including BookForum, Frieze, Art Journal, Art Forum, Parkett, Cabinet, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. The College Art Association conferred on him as award for distinguished writing in Art Journal in 2004. He curated the exhibition for Independent Curators International titled Experimental Geography, with a book available by Melville House Publishing. His forthcoming book, Seeing Power: Socially Engaged Art in the Age of Cultural Production, will be published by Melville House.
Anne Pasternak, president and artistic director, Creative Time
Anne Pasternak joined Creative Time in the fall of 1994. Since that time, the organization has collaborated with hundreds of artists to ignite the public’s imagination, explore ideas that shape society, and bring groundbreaking public art to millions of people around the world. Under her leadership, Creative Time has produced such renowned projects as Playing the Building, during which the Battery Maritime Building was transformed into an interactive musical instrument; Tribute in Light, the twin beacons of light that illuminated the former World Trade Center site six months after 9/11; Waiting for Godot in New Orleans, a restaging of Samuel Beckett’s play in the streets of post-Katrina New Orleans; and a Global Residency program that supported artists’ processes in exploring questions central to their practice. Along with her work at Creative Time, Pasternak curates independent exhibitions, consults on urban planning initiatives, and contributes essays to cultural publications. She lectures extensively throughout the United States and Europe, and has served as a guest critic at Yale University.
Advisory Committee
Paola Antonelli, director of research and development, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art
Negar Azimi, senior editor, Bidoun magazine
Shumon Basar, writer, editor and curator
Sunny Bates, president and chief executive officer, Sunny Bates Associates
Andy Breslau, president, The Nation Institute
Jeff Chang, journalist, music critic and executive director, Institute for Diversity in the Arts + Committee on Black Performing Arts, Stanford University
Ken Chen, director, Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Michelle Coffey, executive director, Lambent Foundation
Malkia Cyril, founder and executive director, Center for Media Justice
Beka Economopulos, co-founder, Not An Alternative
Jordan Flaherty, journalist and author, Floodlines
John Forte, chief executive officer, Le Castle
Kate Fowle, executive director, Independent Curators International
Gridthiya Gaweewong, independent curator and co-founder, Project 304
Mariam Ghani, artist, Kabul Reconstructions
Wayne Koestenbaum, poet and cultural critic
Liz Manne, executive director, Film Aid International
Leonidas Martin, artist
Cuauhtémoc Medina, art critic, curator and historian
László Jakab Orsós, director, PEN World Voices Festival and Public Programs
Max Osterweis, creative director and founder, SUNO
Jack Persekian, director, Al–Ma’mal Foundation
Alessandro Petti, Decolonizing Architecture
Favianna Rodriguez, printmaker and digital artist
Jack Rosenthal, president emeritus, The New York Times Company Foundation
Dan Rothenberg, founding member and co-artistic director, Pig Iron Theatre Company
Rasha Salti, writer, independent curator and international programmer, Toronto International Film Festival
Clay Shirky, writer and assistant arts professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Joshua Siegel, associate curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art
Ivan Sigal, executive director, Global Voices
David Weiner, editorial director, Digg.com
Hank Willis Thomas, photo and conceptual artist
Eddie Torres, associate director, The Rockefeller Foundation
Anton Vidokle, artist and founder, e-flux