09/14/2026
Get Repost App • Laura Raicovich Counterpublic’s Coyote Time this weekend delivered. Here’s just a glimpse of the depth and breadth that the art brought to this gorgeous, challenging, upside-down city. Thank you Jordan Carter Stefanie Hessler James McAnally and the whole team Counterpublic.
Image 1: Lynne Smith’s stunning lotus pond at the industrial site that is National Building Arts Center. Desc: a field of bright green broad lotus leaves (ranging from chartreuse to emerald) fill the depression of a disused loading dock within a rusting steel structure that is open to a bright blue sky
Image 2: Kite’s (dr kite (Takuyepi Kin Gluonihanwin)) evocative performance in Tower Grove Park. Desc: a woman with dark hair, pulled back, in a white flowing dress bends to drag a horseshoe over a grouping of stones in a garden-like park.
Image 3: Tony Coke’s Tony Cokes brilliant ode to Tina Turner. Desc: a very large horizontal pair of horizontal screens at the front of a disused church sanctuary are emblazoned with panels of bright royal blue and acid green. The text reads “AND I WONDER WHEN WE’RE EVER GONNA CHANGE, CHANGE” on the blue left panel, and “And inspire others she did.” On the green right.
Image 4: Carolina Caycedo National Building Arts Center, part of an extraordinary presentation of this artist’s work throughout Coyote Time including at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and at other sites. Desc: a large circular sculpture hangs like a massive chandelier from an industrial ceiling. Natural reeds and bright red and green and blue strands hang from the central structure, jelly-fish-like.
Image 5: Stephen Andrews textile installation Desc: a tapestry woven with an image of a pixilated sky scape, cloudy and moody with rainbows, hangs from a large circular armature.
Image 6: Tromarama’s installation and performance site. Desc: an unfinished lobby-space is filled with discarded household objects placed idiosyncratically around the space from a red velvet chair and a plastic pet gate to doors, stools, and lamps.
