Groundswell Weekly Review: June 21 – 27, 2009
No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents began June 24 in NYC. Billed as “a celebration of the independent forces that animate contemporary art,” more than 30 art spaces from around the world will be represented. Everyone’s talking about it, and there’s no charge at the door.
Katie Holten’s Tree Museum opened along The Bronx’s Grand Concourse. Her piece celebrates the 100-year anniversary of the Concourse through local stories and details about the intimate lives of trees.
Commemorations of the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots take place this weekend, and our friends in the Tranny Roadshow have a call out for booking their fall 2009 tour.
Jason Laning (ex-friendly/agitate) launched a new webcomic called “For Fuck’s Sake“. My personal favorite: The Great Debate.
Radical illustrator Rockwell Kent turned 127 on June 21st. Meanwhile, contemporary illustrators voiced their dissatisfaction with Google, who asked them to design skins for their browser without pay.
Détournement goes to the zoo: the Steinbrener/Dempf project “Trouble in Paradise” visualizes the worst of human impact on nature for visitors to Vienna’s Schönbrunn Zoo.
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