The Independent School of Art, Courtesy Jon Rubin

In the September 13, 2009 edition of The New York Times, art critic Roberta Smith lamented the “academicization of the art world” (see Artists Without Mortarboards) and, went as far as to write that the growing interest among art schools in offering Ph.D.s in art “makes the blood run cold.” However, what warmed Smith’s cockles was the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, a newly launched insurgent, artist-run school that “is being made up as it goes along.” Read the rest of this post on my new blog, We Have The Technology on Glasstire.org.

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Jon Rubin and I have organized another exhibit together called Never Been to Tehran. NBTT opened this week at several exhibition spaces around the world, including Tehran. The project asks participants to take photos in their own environment of what they think Tehran, Iran might look like. There are 29 international participants who are uploading 3-5 photos per week to a universal photosharing site; the slideshow of the photos is projected from an internet connection into the exhibition spaces. Over the next 4 weeks, the exhibit will evolve from a few dozen photos to a few hundred, while the participants continue to research Tehran and respond (in some cases) to the other photos contributed. Visit the Never Been to Tehran website here.

Image by NBTT participant, Heidi Hove Pedersen, Copenhagen, Denmark