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Christening a Film Festival’s New Old Home With John Waters

by Michael Anthony Farley on May 24, 2017
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The Maryland Film Festival has a glorious permanent home in a formerly abandoned theater. Of course, as with all developments in Baltimore, it’s restoration hasn’t been without controversy.

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Greetings from Little Haiti: The Common Field Convening Starts Tonight

by Michael Anthony Farley on October 20, 2016
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I’m in Miami for the Common Field Convening, where I’ll be both speaking on a panel and posting updates to the blog all weekend long. When I tell people this, the first question I get is almost always “What is Common Field?”
Short Answer: Common Field is great.

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A Month Inside Russia: Dispatches from Flux Factory’s Field Trip Abroad

by Nat Roe on September 21, 2015
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Across the street from where I’m working is a hundred foot tall iron screw, which I’m told will drill the foundation for some lux apartments. Six residents of Flux Factory and I are at Yarky, a new artists’ hostel & exhibition space that’s struggling to finance completion of construction, while a bit nervous about what their new neighbors could mean. In other words, St. Petersburg, Russia does share some of the same woes as NYC.

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If a Tree Falls in the Forest and There’s No New York Art Critic to Review it, No One Cares

by Paddy Johnson on August 27, 2015
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I like looking. It’s why I write at Art F City, and why, every summer, I chose to vacation in the wilderness. I don’t want to stop looking, but I need a break from the rest of the job.

Spending a bunch of time on a trail makes that easy. This year, I spent part of my vacation at Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia. One of the best qualities of visiting a national park: admission doesn’t come with a press release telling you what to think about your experience and why it’s important to humanity. Nobody expects visitors to theorize their experience in the woods or even reflect on it. The job is just to enjoy it. (Which I did.)

More after the jump.

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