Scott Stulen opened his TEDx Indianapolis talk last month with our Internet Cat Video Festival. It’s but one example of the programming from our three-summer experiment in “the commons,” he said, which sprang from the mantra “Open Field is what we make together.”

Minneapolis-area natives Joel and Ethan Coen have reportedly agreed to help bring one of their classics to TV: They’ll serve as executive producers on a new FX series based on their 1996 feature Fargo.

Street artist SABER launched an aerial campaign against Mitt Romney Sunday: He enlisted five planes to skywrite phrases like “Defend the Arts”—a reaction to the Republican’s vow to eliminate NEA funding—high above New York.

On the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, Jonathan Massey and Brett Snyder look at how the movement unfolded, both in New York City’s Zuccotti Park and online, in what they call “the agoras of the hypercity.”

“Kitten-in-a-basket movies? It’s adorable—but is it art?” So asks Newsweek on our Internet Cat Video Film Festival, noting that “the presentation, even endorsement, by the museum of such downscale cat videos has some proponents of ‘real’ video art a bit queasy.”

Awhile back the Swatch Team—a knitting group that meets weekly at our Open Field—made pillows to leave in parks for homeless people to find. On Sept. 1 they’re doing the same with food: they’re prepping hundreds of knit bags filled with edibles for the needy.