2023
THE ART NEWSPAPER: Organisers of billboard art project allege their show in Texas on prison reform was censored
Companies that manage advertising spaces in Houston reportedly called off the project with little warning or explanation.
HYPERALLERGIC: Artists Decry Company’s Decision to Pull Mass Incarceration Billboards
Titled 8 x 5 Houston in reference to the minimum required square footage of a jail cell in Texas, the project featured designs by formerly incarcerated artists.
PAPERCITY: 6 Houston Art World Shows Worth Seeing Before They’re Gone — Harris County Jail Deaths, Art Cars and More Put in Spotlight
The activist-focused endeavor seeks to raise awareness, spark conversation and, above all, make change via artist engagement with the issues of our day.
BroadwayWorld Houston: Art at a Time Like This Launches 8X5 HOUSTON Exhibition
To raise awareness and provide an outlet for community participation, 8x5 Houston will hold a panel discussion at the Houston Museum of African American Culture on November 4th at 2 PM, moderated by the museum’s Chief Curator Christopher Blay.
Houston Style Magazine: Artists Respond to Conditions in Harris County Jail and Mass Incarceration in the US
In early November, Art at a Time Like This will launch 8x5 Houston, a public intervention with artworks responding to the mass incarceration crisis.
Glasstire: 8x5 Houston: Artist speak out against Mass Incarceration
8×5 Houston is a public art project which will saturate the city with images and messages about the mass incarceration crisis and inequalities in the judicial system.
CityBook Houston: Important Houston Artists Create Mobile Billboards to Advocate for Prison Reform
On Nov. 4, the non-profit arts organization Art At A Time Like This will launch 8x5 Houston, a public art endeavor designed to bring attention to prison reform by displaying commissioned artworks by 10 artists on billboards and mobile billboard trucks throughout the city.
Chicago Tribune: 4 Female Artist Mount a Chicago Exhibit on Climate Change
In advance of Earth Day, Ma was one of four female artists who came together earlier this month to present “How On Earth,” an exhibition put together by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the nonprofit Art at a Time Like This.
2022
Art Newspaper: Miami artist billboard project puts justice in the spotlight
The justice-minded non-profit Art at a Time Like This launched the latest iteration of its “8 X 5” initiative, a public art intervention that references the dimensions of a prison cell, just in time for Miami Art Week.
Surface Magazine: Art at a Time Like This reveals billboards raising awareness about mass incarceration.
Five artists selected from an open call will have their work featured alongside established figures, whose art engages with the American prison system, including the Guerrilla Girls, Glenn Kaino, and Dread Scott.
GAGOSIAN QUARTERLY: Artists Agains Mass Incarceration
Page 106-108: Another organization that uses billboards to bring attention to mass incarceration is Art At A Time Like This
EXPO CHICAGO - ONLINE DISPATCH: Gallery Features and Exhibitions
Excelsior—named after the starship led by Captain Sulu of Star Trek and meaning ‘onward and upwards’ – is a public presentation curated by Job Piston for the Art at a Time Like This fall program, featuring artists of Asian descent in visual and live arts.
THE ART NEWSPAPER: Painting for food with Jeppe Hein, toasting Manhattan’s newest galleries and more Armory Week festivities
Later in the evening, independent curator and Performa associate curator at large Job Piston held a screening of “Excelsior”, a programme of video art by eight artists of Asian descent at the Quad Cinema as part of the Art at a Time Like This initiative.
HYPERALLERGIC: Afghan Artists Speak Out Against Oppression
In the online exhibition Before Silence, nine contemporary Afghan artists ruminate on their plight as refugees with targets on their backs.
MIAMI TIMES: Public art on billboards makes statement about prison system
Public art brings art to people where they are. That’s the purpose of a billboard and bus stop billboard exhibition now installed throughout Miami.
MIAMI ARTBURST: PUBLIC ART EXHIBITION ON BILLBOARDS IN MIAMI MAKES A STATEMENT ABOUT JAIL SYSTEM
Creative Boom: Striking public art project '8X5' protests against the US criminal justice system
Created by nonprofit arts organisation Art At A Time Like This in collaboration with SaveArtSpace, 8X5 is a billboard exhibition which aims to provoke a dialogue about America's criminal justice system.
EFE: Traveling Public Art Exhibit Takes Aim at Mass Incarceration In US
(live TV episode)
Yahoo: El arte público intenta revertir el "encarcelamiento masivo" en EEUU
La Prensa Latina: Traveling public art exhibit takes aim at mass incarceration in US
Organized by the non-profit organizations SaveArtSpace and Art at a Time Like This, that project shines a spotlight on a reality that has grown massively over the past five decades.
USA Detail ZERO: Public art tries to reverse “mass incarceration” in the US
The exhibit is distributed across 25 billboards and bus shelters located near courthouses and government offices to spark a dialogue about the US criminal justice system.
Broadway World: Art At A Time Like This Announces Collaboration With Jamaica Arts Society
Art at a Time Like This has announced its collaboration with Jamaica Art Society to present 2021 JAS Fellows in this context of an online exhibition.
Broadway World: Art At A Time Like This Announces Appointment Of Board Of Directors And Board Of Advisors͏
On March 30, 2022, Art at a Time Like This - a platform for artists and curators in the 21st century - who confront and address crises-held its inaugural board meeting this week.
Spotify: How Afghanistan’s Artists Are Making Their Way in Exile
Apple Podcast: How Afghanistan’s Artists Are Making Their Way in Exile
ARTNET: How Afghanistan’s Artists Are Making Their Way in Exile
Shamayel Shalizi is one of nine artists featured in the exhibition "Before Silence: Afghan Artists In Exile. For curators Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen, the crisis provided an opportunity for their arts organization, Art at a Time Like This, to help raise awareness about the plight of Afghan artists.
GALERIE: 5 things Galerie editors loved this week
ART FOR CHANGE’s newest collaboration with Art at a Time Like This launches this week. Sales of this limited number of hand-embellished works by groundbreaking artist Judith Bernstein and painter Darryl Westly
2021
HYPERALLERGIC: Why We Think About Art in a Time of Adversity
In launching Art at a Time Like This we felt an enormous responsibility in starting an art platform that responds to crises in the US and abroad.
VOGUE NETHERLANDS: Art Curious,
Last year Anne Verhallen, a Dutch curator who’s based in New York City, started Art At A Time Like This with art critic Barbara Pollack
SWEETPEAGALLERY: Being Human in an Inhumane Time
THINKING OF A PLACE is a virtual exhibition curated by Jesse Krimes, showcasing six artists who use their work to discuss, protest, and respond to mass incarceration within the United States.
BROADWAYWORLD: Opening Today FARMER IS A WRESTLER: A LEXICON OF DISTRESS
A site-specific digital installation by Jiten Thukral & Sumir Tagra.
BROOKLYN RAIL: On Art At A Time Like This
Collaborative artist duo Thukral & Tagra and curators Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen join Rail Editor-at-Large Thyrza Nichols Goodeve for a conversation on Art At A Time Like This.
HYPEBEAST: Coco Capitán, Stefan Bruggemann and More Artists to Present Artworks on UK Billboards
Non-profit organization SaveArtSpace has connected with independent curators Anne Verhallen and Daria Borisova to launch an outdoor exhibition on billboards across the United Kingdom.
THE ART GORGEOUS: Top Curators Activate Public Space In London For World Environment Day
Curators Daria Borisova and Anne Verhallen are now working in collaboration with SaveArtSpace to produce an exhibition across London advertisement spaces – think billboards, kiosks and bus shelters – to bring an intergenerational group of artists together to encourage awareness and provoke action that protects our environment.
FAD MAGAZINE: ‘RESTORATION: NOW OR NEVER’
SaveArtSpace have announced their very first public art activation in London, UK, ‘RESTORATION: NOW or NEVER,’ co-organized by two independent curators, Anne Verhallen and Daria Borisova with support from Hauser & Wirth.
2020
NEW YORK TIMES: Most Import Important Moment in The Arts 2020
In advance of the 2020 election, the online site called “Art at a Time Like This,” founded by Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen, collaborated with SaveArtSpace to place politically pointed billboards by 20 artists — among them Sue Coe, Abigail DeVille and Dread Scott — throughout New York City’s five boroughs.
HYPEBEAST: Leading Artists Create Billboards In Response to The Current U.S. Political State
Art At A Time Like This and Save Art Space have launched an open-air exhibition titled “Ministry of Truth: 1984/2020” across the five boroughs of New York City.
WHITEWALL: Ministry of Truth: 20 Billboards Across NYC Address Politics
The public project comes out of the recent online initiative, “Art at a Time Like This,” and is curated by Barbara Pollack, Anne Verhallen, Jerome LaMaar, Carmen Hermo, Sophia Marisa Lucas, and Larry Ossei-Mensah, in collaboration with Save Art Space.
ART SHE SAYS: Anne Verhallen On The Role Of Artists In The Current Crisis
The Director of the Fine Art Division of Creative Exchange Agency and co-founder of Art at a Time Like This shares her thoughts on the role of art in the current crisis and AATLT’s new public exhibition on billboards across the five boroughs of New York City.
HYPERALLERGIC: An Orwell-inspired Billboard Project Considers the State of US Politics
“Ministry of Truth: 1984/2020” will present 20 artists, including Deborah Kass and Mel Chin, on 20 billboards around New York City.
FORBES: Artists Taking Over Billboards Across America
Art at a Time Like This debuts billboards around the city beginning October 12 through its “Ministry of Truth: 1984-2020” public art exhibition.
NY1: Artists Make Provocative Works As Part of Their Protest
Dread Scott and other artists have seen their voices elevated by renewed interest in activist art. One showcase is a new online platform “Art At A Time Like This,” organized by local curators Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen, which showcases the importance of art during times of turmoil.
NEW YORK TIMES: 2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home
What I like about “How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This?” is that it’s less of a definitive statement about this challenging time and more of an open-ended platform. Its curators, Barbara Pollack (who has written for The New York Times) and Anne Verhallen, have invited artists to submit images of relevant, though not necessarily new, work as well as an accompanying statement.
THE NEW YORKER: “Art at a Time Like This”
How can we think of art at a time like this? That question, posed by the New York curators Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen in this online-only exhibition, is answered in poignant and provocative ways by an eclectic group of international artists.
Garage Magazine: How Can We Think Of Art At A Time Like This
In the midst of COVID-19 closures, writer-curators Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen debuted a star-studded, online-only art exhibition.
ARTNET: ‘How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This?’: A Star-Studded Online Show Weighs the Triviality—and Importance—of Art in a Crisis
Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen curated the online show in response to widespread gallery closures.
BROOKLYN RAIL: How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This?
Co-curated by Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen as a platform for the exchange of art and ideas at a time of crisis, How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This? is an exhibition without walls, created almost overnight to respond to museum and galleries’ closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a platform for free expression, inviting visitors to post responses on its Comments page.
OFFICE MAGAZINE: ART AT A A TIME LIKE THIS
Within 48 hours of the complete shutdown of the art world, Pollack and Verhallen had constructed what they hope will be a lasting public forum. How long, exactly, is “lasting?” No one knows for sure, and that uncertainty, along with the site’s strictly noncommercial ambitions, are driving forces behind the project.
AIRMAIL: How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This?/
How can we think of art at a time like this? This question is the name of an online exhibition in which co-curators Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen have invited members of their tight-knit circle—artists who are leaders—to take part in a presentation that will change daily.
WHITEWALL MAGAZINE: Anne Verhallen and Barbara Pollack Curate “Art at a Time Like This”
Curators Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen put together the online exhibition “How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This?” as a reaction to gallery and museum closures across the country.
ARTSY: Museums, Curators, and Artists Find Innovative Solutions for Showing Art in a Pandemic
Curated by Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen, the online exhibition “How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This?” launched on March 17th and will grow as the pandemic goes on.
BIJUTSUTECHNO: アートで対話の場を。NY発のオンライン展覧会に束芋やChim↑Pom、アルフレッド・ジャーらが参加
新型コロナウイルスの感染が深刻なアメリカ・ニューヨーク。この地から、アートで対話の場を築こうというオンライン展覧会「How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This? 」が発信されている。
PROTHOMALO: স্থান পেয়েছে বাংলাদেশি শিল্পী ফিরোজের চিত্রকর্ম
বিশ্বজুড়ে বাছাই করা শিল্পীদের শিল্পকর্ম নিয়ে মহামারি সময়ে ‘আর্ট অ্যাট অ্যা টাইম লাইক দিস’ (Art at a Time Like This) শিরোনামে আন্তর্জাতিক প্রদর্শনী (অনলাইন) প্রদর্শনী শুরু হয়েছে। সেখানে বাংলাদেশের শিল্পী ফিরোজ মাহমুদের শিল্পকর্মও স্থান পেয়েছে।
THE JAKARTA POST: ‘Art at a Time like This’ goes online during pandemic
At the time when galleries and museums close their doors to slow down the pandemic, a show, aptly called “How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This?”, goes online to respond to the crisis.
TIMEOUT: New York galleries are creating online viewing rooms to exhibit art
Curated by writer Barbara Pollack and curator, writer and artist agent Anne Verhallen, How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This? calls itself "an exhibition without walls" and a "platform for free expression during a time of crisis."
ELLE DECOR: HOW CAN WE THINK OF ART AT A TIME LIKE THIS?
Così le curatrici, Barbara Pollack e Anne Verhallen parlano del loro progetto "How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This?" nel quale hanno invitato gli artisti a esprimersi rispetto a questo particolare momento; un pensiero-visione che, oltre il Coronavirus, si estende alle crisi del mondo attuale, fra il crescente autoritarismo, il riscaldamento globale, i temi dell'immigrazione, della la discriminazione razziale e di genere e della sconfitta della democrazia.
ART SHE SAYS: ‘How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This?’
In response to the coronavirus and global art crisis, Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen curate an online exhibition meant to serve as a platform for the exchange of ideas and open a dialogue at a time of social distancing, self-quarantine, and global turmoil.
HYPERALLERGIC: In the Time of Social Distance, Galleries Go Digital
As galleries transfer programming online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve noted exhibitions worth checking out.
COBOSOCIAL: The Art World Is Going Digital Amidst Closures. Will it Work?
Across the pond, New York curators Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen are presenting an online exhibition titled “How Can You Think of Art at A Time Life This?” as an opportunity for artists to express themselves during these troubled times.
CAPITAL ETHIOPIA: Keeping Spirits High
This week I received an email from Janet Goldner, a New York-based artist and friend who has exhibited in Ethiopia previously. She was reaching out about an ongoing online exhibition entitled How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This? curated by Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen.