https://newrural.org New Rural Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:35:14 +0000 https://newrural.org en https://newrural.org/Jeremy-Johnston Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:35:14 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Jeremy-Johnston Jeremy Johnston: The Anxiety of the Open Question “It's pure curiosity. It's 95% just constantly asking questions: what's the right direction for this work of art? How should you install it? Will it survive outdoors? By asking these questions, by expressing curiosity, you're in a train of thought that leads to the most interesting places...I think what sustains it, and maybe this is also something of our personality as a studio — is not reaching, not forcing it into one conclusion or another.”More <img width="1600" height="1600" width_o="1600" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f4649ae8ab86708d0f51ec6dfc5c521f5741a8b1d88e3e27cd84c5ac2a47649/JeremyJohnston_Ilustration_NewRural.jpg" data-mid="251709269" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f4649ae8ab86708d0f51ec6dfc5c521f5741a8b1d88e3e27cd84c5ac2a47649/JeremyJohnston_Ilustration_NewRural.jpg" /> https://newrural.org/and-that-has-to-be-enough Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:54:23 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/and-that-has-to-be-enough And That Has To Be Enough I don’t think that people on our side have any right to assume a good outcome. I think that the real, authentic motive for doing what we’re doing is because it’s right. And that has to be enough. If we have to have some guarantee that it’s going to be effective, sooner or later, we’ll become discouraged and quit.Wendell Berry from an interview concerning protests <img width="2000" height="2667" width_o="2000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01400f810938fd391942a96c9e8412ce6188f7a967b94dfb397fe62aa2eda0e2/new_rural_taylor-county_kentucky_eric-hurtgen.jpg" data-mid="244044072" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01400f810938fd391942a96c9e8412ce6188f7a967b94dfb397fe62aa2eda0e2/new_rural_taylor-county_kentucky_eric-hurtgen.jpg" /> https://newrural.org/Shifting-Coordinates Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:59:23 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Shifting-Coordinates Shifting Coordinates <img width="3083" height="1729" width_o="3083" height_o="1729" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74d1123f6c52f8e240fd5b2196ff3bfba58a189cc85210bdfe6466574160b816/AyanAbdi_YounMan.jpg" data-mid="251353435" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74d1123f6c52f8e240fd5b2196ff3bfba58a189cc85210bdfe6466574160b816/AyanAbdi_YounMan.jpg" />Young man from Rocinha (2025) Ayan Abdi Image from the June 2026 exhibition, Shifting Coordinates, at the&nbsp;Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo, Norway.&nbsp; https://newrural.org/Arvo-Part Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:51:12 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Arvo-Part Unknown Territory “If there were no continual effort to start from the beginning there would be no art. I cannot help it but start from scratch. I am tempted only when I experience something unknown, something new and meaningful for me. It seems, however, that this unknown territory is sooner reached by way of reduction than by growing complexity. Reduction certainly doesn’t mean simplification, but it is the way – at least in an ideal scenario – to the most intense concentration on the essence of things. In the compositional process I always have to find this nucleus first from which the work will eventually emerge."Arvo Pärt Interview with Arvo and Nora Pärt The Musical Times, Autumn 1999 <img width="3000" height="3000" width_o="3000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1f08d6fd5d3298713888d4d97e2b13c9f5b320490a93abbf58e4299472ed4a2/ArvoPart_Iluustration_NewRural_01.png" data-mid="251442172" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1f08d6fd5d3298713888d4d97e2b13c9f5b320490a93abbf58e4299472ed4a2/ArvoPart_Iluustration_NewRural_01.png" /> https://newrural.org/Listening-Anenon-Dream-Temperatur Sun, 17 May 2026 19:12:43 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Listening-Anenon-Dream-Temperatur Listening Brian Allen Simon, creator of the avant-ambient musical project Anenon, moves his musical practice forward into a feverish, unfettered space that he’s hinted at mostly in his excellent live shows. Highly recommended—pair with a humid evening and an Alsace Pinot Noir.&nbsp; Dream Temperature by Anenon <img width="700" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/235a43fa580897223568f82355b9472f3ba29fe81366eb57ecc902950dccaf7c/Anenon_DreamTemprature.jpg" data-mid="248413558" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/235a43fa580897223568f82355b9472f3ba29fe81366eb57ecc902950dccaf7c/Anenon_DreamTemprature.jpg" /> https://newrural.org/Dondis Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:34:41 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Dondis A More Tenuous Means of Understanding “The Industrial Revolution brought one dynamic change to all things made by machine, craftsman, and artist; no longer were they produced on commission, but rather on speculation. Here is the product, created or manufactured; will someone want it? All of the give-and-take between maker and user, then, is broken down, giving way to a more tenuous means of understanding"Donis A. Dondis A Primer of Visual Literacy <img width="1400" height="1867" width_o="1400" height_o="1867" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/248ff8e2a0a2ee79640747464cd8c673a15bb12a87e36756336cca5af266d75e/new-rural_industrial.jpg" data-mid="247190181" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/248ff8e2a0a2ee79640747464cd8c673a15bb12a87e36756336cca5af266d75e/new-rural_industrial.jpg" /> https://newrural.org/Listening-Pauline-Oliveros-Andrew-Deutsch Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:34:28 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Listening-Pauline-Oliveros-Andrew-Deutsch Listening A delicate sound collage from 1999 by composer Pauline Oliveros and sound artist Andrew Deutsch. Oliveros was committed to a kind of meditative practice of attention she called Deep Listening and Deutsch is a professor of sound design at Alfred University.&nbsp; Springs by Pauline Oliveros/Andrew Deutsch <img width="700" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7745a843825ad84d7711f195a59eeb2083ea62ac1409974047b24b259d1ec6ef/a1719860210_16.jpg" data-mid="245890332" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/7745a843825ad84d7711f195a59eeb2083ea62ac1409974047b24b259d1ec6ef/a1719860210_16.jpg" /> https://newrural.org/Armajani Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:20:45 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Armajani We Are Out of Place Until 1999, my sculpture was participatory in the sense that I built reading rooms, reading gardens, bridges, workers' lounges, etc. Previously, I knew architecture not as a "thing between four walls in a spatial sense, but as a place for resting, sleeping, working." But since then I have enclosed the sculptures so that people cannot enter; they have to walk around the sculpture and view it. Adorno's ironic statement—"it is part of morality not to be at home in one's home"—now guides my work. Outside of these enclosed spaces, we are out of place, as though banished, estranged, expelled, or as Lukács says, experiencing a "transcendental homelessness."Siah Armajani from Notes on Exile <img width="800" height="638" width_o="800" height_o="638" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71e51da8932c0556b2875681436ba606430052820c740117d3fd6f370e0f5809/100621_mia327_0695_800.jpg" data-mid="245605234" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/71e51da8932c0556b2875681436ba606430052820c740117d3fd6f370e0f5809/100621_mia327_0695_800.jpg" /> An Exile Dreaming of Saint Adorno, 2009 https://newrural.org/Lattimore Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:50:10 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Lattimore Mary Lattimore: The Potential for Experimentation “I really love to go places to make records. I got an art residency at Headlands, outside of San Francisco, for a couple months to record among the redwoods. That’s where I made Hundreds of Days—barely any cell phone service, very rugged beach, and it was in a national park. I got so much inspiration from just being alone there in a cold, misty Northern California barn.” More <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7fb4346f97a9f6a4cc59d615740e92d7a3c1261d5601afc0e5942a2028414aa/NewRural_MaryLattimore_B03.png" data-mid="245276272" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7fb4346f97a9f6a4cc59d615740e92d7a3c1261d5601afc0e5942a2028414aa/NewRural_MaryLattimore_B03.png" /> https://newrural.org/Listening-Susumu-Yokot Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:43:52 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Listening-Susumu-Yokot Listening A lovely track from Sushumu Yakota, a Japanese artist who was born in 1960 in Tachikawa City—west of Tokyo. He studied economics and graphic design simultaneously, moving to Tokyo where he had a successful design practice in the 1990s all while recording and releasing over thirty albums. This particular track is from the late 1980s.&nbsp; Image 1983-1998 (Skintone Edition) by Susumu Yokota <img width="700" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8aae4aa0c4db120fcfbbcf7772119fcd35b53375d7e20fff53187fb764dea43e/a0829595192_16.jpg" data-mid="244378962" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/8aae4aa0c4db120fcfbbcf7772119fcd35b53375d7e20fff53187fb764dea43e/a0829595192_16.jpg" />