COMMONS MAGAZINE
Arts and Culture Arts and Culture highlights creative work in all mediums and disciplines with a special emphasis on artists, writers, performers, and collectives who blur the lines between art-making, personal activism, and community involvement. As they employ new artistic strategies, contemporary creatives continue to expand the role of arts and culture in public life. This section will feature intriguing and often ground-breaking work and explore how it might illuminate the challenges and opportunities we face as we move toward a commons-based world.
(By Dena Flows under a Creative Commons license)
New York's High Line is a popular poster child for Creative Placemaking. (By David Berkowitz under a CC license)
Occupiers of Rome's Teatro Valle want to move Italy's cultural policies in the direction of the commons.
Vong Lee wears two hats at the same time as a Hip Hop artist and community organizer working with an inner city neighborhood in St. Paul.
Manarola, one of five car-free Cinque Terre towns linked by trails and trains. (Photo by Kevin Botto under a Creative Commons license.)
(Photo by College360 under a Creative Commons license)
Photo courtesy of PM Press
(By Dena Flows under a Creative Commons license)
Bob Dylan freely acknowledges his debt to Frank Sinatra, Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie, Kurt Weill and many others
A Day at the Museum-- Two very different different visions of tomorrow
How marketing overlords ruined the charm of my local post office.
