How are audience expectations and public participation changing?
Katharina Grosse's epic psychylustro—a five-mile-long "painting" sprayed intermittently along a stretch of train tracks in northeast Philadelphia—challenges a number of assumptions about the role of both painting and public art. Here, urbanist Randy Mason offers his perspective.
Thomas Lax, curator of performance at MoMA, addresses the reality that many museum visitors "lead with their iPads and smartphones."
Composer Judd Greenstein speaks to changing audience expectations in "an era where people are deluged with cultural products."
"What is an author?" It is a question the composer George Lewis asks, via Foucault, in his keynote essay for our Questions of Practice series on co-authorship in artistic practice.
As an increasing number of Philadelphia-area organizations and artists seek funding for projects that involve collaboration and multiple authors, our culture at large has become increasingly participatory.
Experimental theater artist Romeo Castellucci talks about what he calls the "monarchy of the viewer."
An award-winning composer-vocalist, Bielawa has worked with Anthony Braxton, Philip Glass Ensemble, and John Zorn. We asked her: How is technology impacting our expectations of live music?
We ask DeFrantz how changes in technology are impacting the ways in which artists produce narrative.
We asked P. Carl, director and editor of HowlRound: Are excellence and accessibility mutually exclusive concepts?
Song ErRui, the daughter of artists Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, talks about her contribution to her parents' exhibition, "The Way of Chopsticks," her life as a young artist, and artistic collaboration.