Category: Editor’s Letter
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Occupying Empty Houses and Airwaves to Fight Foreclosures in Boston
July 1, 2014 -
As members of the Boston-based community group City Life/Urbana Vida moved a homeless couple into an empty house, a collective of artists and activists including John Hulsey set up a pirate radio station inside the house and organized conversations about housing equity using the frequency of a recently shuttered radio station. More -
We Will Show You Fear in a Handful of Dust: Artists Build Drone at President Obama’s Alma Mater
May 1, 2014 -
Artist collective Finishing School built a model Predator drone on the campus of President Obama’s alma mater, Occidental College. In an interview with Creative Time Reports Editor Marisa Mazria Katz, the artists explain why. More -
Editor’s Letter – April 2014
April 1, 2014 -
Artist Ahmet Ögüt speaks with Creative Time Reports Editor Marisa Mazria Katz about withdrawing from the 19th Biennale of Sydney, along with several other participating artists, until the biennale’s board severed ties to a corporation profiting from Australia’s mandatory detention policies. More -
Editor’s Letter – March, 2014
March 1, 2014 -
It’s a rare media cycle when an American publication goes to press without a story on Russia. In recent months, subjects including Sochi’s Olympics, laws that would prohibit “gay propaganda” or annex Ukrainian land and the arrests and releases of artists and activists, among them members of Pussy Riot and Greenpeace, have regularly splashed across […] More -
Editor’s Letter – February, 2013
February 3, 2014 -
The polar vortex pummeling much of the American Northeast has, for the most part, been reviled. Black ice mixes with wind chills in the single digits. Only tears from the frigid winds moisten chapped faces and lips. I have tried to use the drop in temperature, though, to prepare for an upcoming trip to Russia’s […] More
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Editor’s Letter
Five years after Creative Time Reports’ inception, the project is coming to a close. Editor Marisa Mazria Katz reflects on some of the most moving pieces that solidified CTR as a unique platform that elevates artists’ voices.