https://newrural.org New Rural Thu, 05 Nov 2026 16:01:12 +0000 https://newrural.org en https://newrural.org/Bill-Richards-1 Thu, 05 Nov 2026 16:01:12 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Bill-Richards-1 Bill Richards: The Process and The Results As I started on my first drawing of the swamp, and looked at the source photograph, I immediately realized that I need to ask myself some questions: “Do I want to capture sunlight?” &nbsp;No. &nbsp;“Do I want a sense of the horizon?”&nbsp;&nbsp;No.&nbsp;&nbsp;“Do I want to activate the entire surface evenly?” Yes. The result I wanted was a surface that would be visually active in every square inch, creating what might be viewed as an abstract composition.More <img width="2202" height="1775" width_o="2202" height_o="1775" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34809ffc853e072f4df0373a7dd33941193ba23299a6caaea83f6463486c9bc8/1976.220Indian20Swamp20Cattails.jpg" data-mid="254034231" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34809ffc853e072f4df0373a7dd33941193ba23299a6caaea83f6463486c9bc8/1976.220Indian20Swamp20Cattails.jpg" /> https://newrural.org/Walter-Benjamin Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:18:22 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Walter-Benjamin Given Heed Already to a Great Many Things Whoever follows traces must not only pay attention; above all, he must have given heed already to a great many things. (The hunter must know about the hoof of the animal whose trail he is on; he must know the hour when that animal goes to drink; he must know the course of the river to which it turns, and the location of the ford by which he himself can get across.) In this way there comes into play the peculiar configuration by dint of which long experience appears translated into the language of immediate experience. Experiences can, in fact, prove invaluable to one who follows a trace—but experiences of a particular sort. The hunt is the one type of work in which they function intrinsically. And the hunt is, as work, very primitive. The experiences &lt;Erfohrungen&gt; of one who attends to a trace result only very remotely from any work activity, or are cut off from such a procedure altogether. They have no sequence and no system. They are a product of chance, and have about them the essential interminability that distinguishes the preferred obligations of the idler. The fundamentally unfinishable collection of things worth knowing, whose utility depends on chance, has its prototype in study.Walter Benjamin from The Arcades Project, Convolue m, Idleness <img width="800" height="956" width_o="800" height_o="956" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b203286d2e450fdab739fa2043bf0908d7d2d00dd0180a9339d187eb600d245e/NewRural_WB.gif" data-mid="253751644" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/b203286d2e450fdab739fa2043bf0908d7d2d00dd0180a9339d187eb600d245e/NewRural_WB.gif" /> https://newrural.org/Delcy-Morelos Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:56:27 +0000 New Rural https://newrural.org/Delcy-Morelos What is Still Unknown Yet Already Exists How can one care for something that one can only think of controlling and exploiting? Feeling separate from nature leads to this interaction, which is so negative and devastating. In some fields of science-and among certain scientists—there's a strong inclination to impose one's will on and control over what's being studied. Some scientific methods are wonderful, but everything we perceive depends on our capacity to listen, relate to others, feel and see the network, and intuit what is still unknown yet already exists.Delcy Morelos from a conversation with Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña, here. <img width="533" height="800" width_o="533" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd1e96f7282cb7de9993290c69af31235774359c44ce9448dea5f52b1d03bf57/DelceyMorelos_Parrish.png" data-mid="252458646" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/533/i/bd1e96f7282cb7de9993290c69af31235774359c44ce9448dea5f52b1d03bf57/DelceyMorelos_Parrish.png" />Delcy Morelos, from &nbsp;the group show Until The Moon Comes Over the Mountain at Parrish Art Musuem 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" />