It’s Thanksgiving Eve — in other words, your Friday, if you’re a nine-to-fiver, and your time to get drunk, if you’re shirking cooking duties and like to face family with a raging hangover. Yes, since All of Nightlife convened for a round-table meeting some years ago, the Wednesday before Turkey Day has been dubbed one [...]
Theaster Gates might be an artist, but he is absolutely an urban planner. At a talk for the opening of Soul Manufacturing Corporation, his current exhibition at Locust Projects, he explained, “I don’t think that I’m engaged in artistic production at all. I am involved in meaning-making. Systems-making.” While he’s exhibited at museums and galleries, [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
