About Joseph del Pesco is an independent curator, art journalist, and perennial collaborator. While he's organized projects and exhibitions for museums internationally, he has also...

Recent The Secret Society, The Bitter Valise, Pickpocket Almanack, Anecdote Archive, State of the Arts.

Past Black Market Type & Print Shop, On Being An Exhibition, Collective Foundation, Project Placement, Domestic Multiplex: Heroes & Amateurs, 3 Solo-Artist Projects, Things are People Too, Lost & Found Society, Let’s Trade, Downtime: Constructing Leisure, Dumb Economy, Funny Democracy, Impossible Projects, Fog Food, The End of the End of the Line.

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Writing ICI - Specters of San Francisco Magazines, A Conversation with The Present Group, Fillip / From the Hip, The Foundation (or meet Jackie Sumell…), OPEN SPACE: SFMOMA's Blog, Giving It Up For Life: An Interview with Lee Walton, Art in America: The Man Behind The Curtain, The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive (book), “Call for Art Historical Knowledge”, Proximity Magazine: Renny Pritikin, Art in America: SFMOMA's SECA Awards Show,

Reference Free art school | SF Bay Guardian, Review of The Bitter Valise by Christian L. Frock, Sculpture Garden Carillon mentioned in NY Times, Collective Foundation included in Art Work Newspaper, Bay Area Stance - Happenstand, julia bryan-wilson: ART WORKERS, Museumist: This Pickpocket Will Leave You (Culturally) Richer, Rhizome | Art-Up Your Computering, SFMOMA | Pickpocket Almanack, Art WikiMarathon, “Black Market Type & Print Shop” artforum critic's pick, Bad at Sports Episode 184, Bad at Sports: Episode 89, Frank Prattle with Zefrey Throwell, PORT - Portland art review,

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The Marvelous Museum: A Project by Mark Dion
The Oakland Museum of California's first major contemporary project commission.

Baby Marx
Video and installation at CCA Kitakyushu by Pedro Reyes, 2009

Anecdote Archive: Constance Lewallen
Legendary curator of the Berkeley Art Museum Connie Lewallen (now semi-retired) talks about Bonnie Sherk's "Public Lunch"

The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer And Sale Agreement
Curator Seth Siegelaub & Lawyer Bob Projansky's contract designed to "remedy some generally acknowledged inequities in the art world, particularly artists' lack of control over the use of their work and participation in its economics after they no longer own it."

Serfing the Net
A critical questioning of "free" labor on the internet. Essay by Astra Taylor, 2009

Astra Taylor on the Unschooled Life
Not home-schooled, no schooled. Astra Taylor talks about her experience growing up self-educated.

Section 7 books
Excellent art bookstore in Paris. Located in the back of Castillo Coralles, a "shared office space and collectively-run gallery."

SF Artists' Soapbox Derby
Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art. Film by Amanda Pope, 1975

How much politics can art take?
A call for artists to work with activists, and a critique of political suppression by "NGO art." by BAVO, 2009

Can I Get An Amen?
A brief history of the Amen Break by artist Nate Harrison, 2004