May 21, 2026For New York 2044 Issue 4, the education issue, we partnered with the The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center to produce a live performance—a futuristic newscast. The new issue is available at the NY2044 newsbox at Parsons Street Sea …
February 1, 2026The Siren is a satirical newspaper whose first issue arrived on January 20th, 2025-the day of Trump’s second inauguration. I co-edited along with Coco Fusco and Pablo Helguera. I design the layout of the print version and website. You can view the Sir …
November 1, 2025Labor Art Review (LAR) is a biannual publication, co-edited by Greg Sholette, Noah Fischer, Barrie Cline, and Keith Christensen. LAR which asks that you consider the beauty of aligning art once again with the political power of organized labor. Whether …
October 15, 2025Review of Something Else Entirely: The Illustration Art of Edward Gorey at the Society of Illutrators in NYC. Read it here on Hyperallergic: Full text: Tucked away in a stately but human-scale former carriage house on the Upper East Side, the Society o …
October 2, 2025https://urbanomnibus.net/2024/10/news-from-home/ It’s the year 2044 and “the vibes are great,” according to a resident of a new cooperative housing trust in Queens, quoted in an article headlined “Why Housing is No Longer a Good Investment.” AOC is Pre …
September 17, 2025The Siren is a satirical newspaper whose first issue arrived on January 20th, 2025-the day of Trump’s second inauguration. I co-edited along with Coco Fusco and Pablo Helguera. I design the layout of the print version and website. You can view the Sir …
June 1, 2025These watercolor portraits were completed from live sittings, mostly in public space. Each was completed in 20-60 minutes and gifted to the sitter.
May 11, 2025https://hyperallergic.com/1011467/a-mystical-obsessive-encounter-with-the-ginseng-root/ Twenty years ago, Craig Thompson captivated readers with Blankets (2003) — a gripping and fluidly drawn romance set amid the Christian fundamentalism, poverty, and …
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May 1, 2025The Siren is a satirical newspaper whose first issue arrived on January 20th, 2025-the day of Trump’s second inauguration. I co-edited along with Coco Fusco and Pablo Helguera. You can view the Siren Here, and download the first issue here. For the se …
March 1, 2025New York 2044 is a speculative social sculpture in the form of an online and print newspaper conceived of by the artist, writer, and organizer Noah Fischer. Commissioned by More Art, Fischer’s research-based artwork takes the form of a newspaper that p …
January 20, 2025The Siren is a satirical newspaper whose first issue arrived on January 20th, 2025-the day of Trump’s second inauguration. I co-edited along with Coco Fusco and Pablo Helguera. You can view the Siren Here, and download the first issue here.
January 6, 2025https://hyperallergic.com/981286/a-prospect-heights-ghost-story/ The final part of our NYC Housing Stories series focuses on its creator, who was displaced from his Brooklyn brownstone. Read on Hyperallergic
December 1, 2024Meet the artists, activists, and organizers on the front lines of the housing justice movement in New York City. A series published on Hyperallergic Read the whole series here on Hyperallergic, or here on More Art.
October 11, 2024Immigration Edition From Interviews with: Alex Beria, Jeehae Fischer, Brenda Loya, Jordon Rogore, Kate Poor, Lee-Sean Huang, Maya Lunes, Merrill Zack, and Yasira Nun. To read the articles, please visit this link: https://moreart.org/wp-content/uploads/ …
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Man on Fire: Expanded Narratives on Art and Ecology at WhiteBox https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/at-whitebox-by-stephen-zacks/6517 By STEPHEN ZACKS August 8, 2024 It’s important for Juan Puntes, founder of WhiteBox, to stipulate that the art space …
June 5, 2024New York 2044 is a speculative social sculpture in the form of an online and print newspaper conceived of by the artist, writer, and organizer Noah Fischer. Commissioned by More Art, Fischer’s research-based artwork will take the form of a newspaper th …
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https://laborartreview.net/mouffe-review-graphic/ Left Art Review: What unique challenges are involved in creating a visual, graphic review of a book, especially one that is written in the academic language of political science? Noah Fischer: Political …
April 1, 2024https://hyperallergic.com/881264/12-graphic-novels-to-read-spring-2024/ In Damnation Diaries, Peter Rostovsky invites us into a vividly rendered and pleasurably sardonic underworld. The titular diaries are patiently typed out by Fred Greenberg, hell’s …
November 16, 2023https://hyperallergic.com/857014/that-time-when-i-tried-to-move-to-israel/
February 23, 2023https://hyperallergic.com/802165/ai-wtf-do-you-know-about-pain/
December 23, 2022Three issues of the Fair Contract News were distributed in support of the November/December 2022 strike at The New School, the longest adjunct strike in US history.
July 4, 2022https://hyperallergic.com/744940/reflecting-on-nationalism-at-the-venice-biennale/
June 1, 2022While humans are paused in a frenzied standstill, they become militant: electro-ants cause short circuits in factories. It is high time to make contact in order to make common cause against fossil fuel-dependent catastrophe capitalism: two species, one …
March 18, 2022Demos is an illustrated speculative fiction novel in development. “This thing’s about to kick the bucket!” Vinegar shouted over the raucous chants. Vinegar’s phone was perpetually running out of juice, bringing urgency to even mundane communications. …
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September 17, 2021I used to think that to be relevant as an artist was to participate in the logic of the market, but that changed in 2011…This visual reflection was published in Hyperallergic on the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.All original images are pen a …
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April 23, 2021Ten years ago, a group of occupiers rode the subway from Zuccotti park to MoMA, where we held a small but obstructive assembly in front of the museum. Shouting through the “people’s mic,” we compared MoMA to the ratings agencies which had awarded AAA s …
April 22, 2021The Graphic story is entitled “The Giant Pit.” It’s a meditation on art and the economy of the future, the legacy of the Guggenheim family, and hopefully you’ll appreciate the dark narrative humor and intense detail of the drawings as you journey into …
January 22, 2021https://hyperallergic.com/615843/why-the-art-world-needs-populism/
January 22, 2021While Trump appears to have sparked a progressive uprising in the art world, there remains a battle between a grassroots struggle to redistribute power, and those who place institutional preservation at the center. https://hyperallergic.com/615843/why- …
April 22, 2020A small table set with an empty pie tin and a can of Reddi-wip. Fischer walks onto stage with a theater seat strapped to his body like a shield. Hello! We caught each other at a strange moment, not a particularly safe moment, especially for an activist. My name is Noah Fischer: I am an activist, or at least I was, before this moment. But I got myself all freaked out about the potential violence of the Left. And that’s what I’m working with now. So I’d like to get you freaked out too.
April 4, 2020During the Occupy Wall Street Movement, the artist wandered Zuccotti Park as a talking coin giving voice to the complaints of a faltering democracy in the face of concentrated corporate wealth. Then one day an old Yippie, famous for pie-in-the facing W …
January 26, 2020https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/art-world-key-terms-2010s-1202673541/4/?fbclid=IwAR1EVndLpVcxFZsAlS0X3IVknHwC83prRa7OY2l2xnYvIIu9uFwn72cskWI
November 9, 2019September 17, 2011, a talking coin circulated through the New York streets of Occupy Wall Street blending outrage and humor to proclaim broken trust in capitalism. In the utopian urban camp, the talking coin met an activist from the 1970’s known for throwing pies in the face of the powerful. Noah Fischer, the talking coin of 2011, speculates on methods beyond the violence of pies for confronting dystopia head on.
July 30, 2019This essay published in Out of Place: Artists, Pedagogy, and Purpose, edited by Tim Doud and Zoë Charlton. Art is not a practical career and people generally know this. One who takes it up ought to eventually make peace with this fact but that’s not me …
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April 22, 2019https://publicseminar.org/2019/04/artist-as-debtor-debt-as-creator/ This article is part of a series of texts published on Public Seminar in the lead-up to the Digital/Debt/Empire symposium in Vancouver in late April 2019, convened by Benjamin Anderson, Enda Brophy and Max Haiven.
November 17, 2018Debtfair New Mexico is a project of Occupy Museums.
November 1, 2018The Art Party: A Sci-Fi Story (Part 1) The Whitney had five separate doorways leading to separate experiences according to credit levels. As a leading collector, gallerist, and chair of the board, Agnesia entered through the founder’s gate. She took a …
September 1, 2018The bronze public monuments built to cut through time as Shackleton’s Endurance was built to cut through arctic ice are arriving in our present moment as anachronistic vessels. Whether appropriate or not, they refuse to budge from public space.
August 30, 2018I can’t forget the puzzling silence of Mark di Suvero…(read full essay in pdf)
January 29, 2018Pulished in Hyperallergic:
June 13, 2017The School of Everything is a project of longtime collaborator Joulia Strauss. Curator of the Symposion is Sotirios Bahtsetzis. Its a platform organized by AthenSYN in documenta 14 Kassel”We build an educational system which consists of politically motivated and artistic initiatives for sharing knowledge, and of proposals by thinkers who see education as decisive for social change.”
May 7, 2017What does commencement mean for artists in the billionaire feeding frenzy of the Trump era? Commencement symbolizes the entry of studied, curious individuals into a world that they have been prepared to influence and impact. But what is this world into which graduates are entering today, and what impact can they have amid a reactionary crackdown on art and cultural difference, saddled with backbreaking amounts of debt?
March 17, 2017Debtfair was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial. In 2012, Occupy Museums launched Debtfair, an exhibition and organizing platform that groups artists and artworks by their debts and other financial realities. The system reveals the relationships binding individuals to the banks holding their loans as a hidden but highly consequential layer underneath the surface of American art. For the Whitney Biennial iteration of Debtfair, Occupy Museums announced a national call for American artists to answer questions relative to their economic realities for inclusion on debtfair. org.
January 20, 2017On #J20- the day of Trump’s inauguration ceremony in Washington DC, I co-organized a speakout with artists, poets, and activists responding to the following questions at the Whitney Museum.
January 20, 2017Alexander Karschnia: It always begins on January, 20th: „20. Jänner“, it’s more than a date, it’s a quote, a code-word for freaks of German literature. The best text begins like this: „Am 20. Jänner ging Lenz durchs Gebirg’“. On Jan. 20th Lenz crossed …
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December 9, 2016Occupy Museum’s project Debtfair will be included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial. The first stage is a national open call to collect profiles on art and debt. We will then sift through the data and create a platform of artwork “bundles” to be installed in the museum and presented online in March 2017. DEBTFAIR OPEN CALL
November 24, 2016Dear Friends, we need art now more than ever. Artworks are”real answers to the puzzle externally posed to them” as Adorno wrote. And what a puzzle! And what better form than theater? Ritualistic life-acting. Experiments for potential revolutions.
