Get Ready for the Marvelous Black Surrealism Symposium This Weekend February 6, 2013: If you are in or near New York City this Friday and Saturday, February 8-9, the Performa Institute and NYU are hosting "Get Ready for the Marvelous: Black Surrealism in Dakar, Fort-de-France, Havana, Johannesburg, New York City, Paris, Port-au-Prince, 1932-2013," "a two-day symposium focusing on international black artists who were directly or [...] by Harriet Staff

Art Strike Anyone? March 21, 2010: The following is from an essay forthcoming in WIG, an off-line poetics journal devoted to writing and labor practices edited by Kristen Gallagher and Tim Shaner. Given Sina's fruitful posts about poetry and work, I thought I should post it to Harriet with the permission of WIG, which I urge everyone to support. For more information about WIG [...] by Thom Donovan

Commoning part II January 26, 2010: I am still wrapping my head around what happened at Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel this past weekend. Clearly, it was one of those conversations that needed to happen because everyone had something to say about the topic of "commons." In attendance were no less than twenty people, many of whom participated in the discussion including Alan [...] by Thom Donovan

Adam Pendleton at SEGUE series January 9, 2010: For the past two winters I have had the privilege of curating the SEGUE reading series, last winter with Evelyn Reilly, this winter with Sara Wintz. SEGUE has featured innovative writing since the 70s when the series was held at the Ear Inn bar in TriBeCa. Originally identified with Language Writing, SEGUE features a diverse range of socially [...] by Thom Donovan