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Black Kites, 1997

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jan 10, 2011

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jan 10, 2011

In this week’s roundup, Gabriel Orozco arrives at the Tate, John Baldessari wants your name in lights, Stockholder, Orozco and Koons display a new object-ivity, Carrie Mae Weems wants us …

Negotiating an Artistic Practice in a Capitalist Ecology: An Interview with Anne Elizabeth Moore

by Caroline Picard | Jan 10, 2011

Negotiating an Artistic Practice in a Capitalist Ecology: An Interview with Anne Elizabeth Moore

by Caroline Picard | Jan 10, 2011

This introduction is short. Anne Elizabeth Moore gave such thorough answers, it seemed more important to let those stand than offer an interpretation of her merit. Safe to say having …

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Ink | Parts of a Whole: John Baldessari’s Prints

by Sarah Kirk Hanley | Jan 7, 2011

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Ink | Parts of a Whole: John Baldessari’s Prints

by Sarah Kirk Hanley | Jan 7, 2011

Over the past couple of years, the art world has been ebulliently celebrating the work of conceptualist John Baldessari – a well deserved paean to this highly influential and groundbreaking …

John Baldessari’s “Your Name in Lights”

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jan 7, 2011

John Baldessari’s “Your Name in Lights”

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jan 7, 2011

You.  Got to have flash and flare or your name in lights, right?! Well, John Baldessari aims to make it happen.  He is looking for people who want their name …

Reenacting a Many Possible Past: An Interview with Irina Botea

by Caroline Picard | Jan 7, 2011

Reenacting a Many Possible Past: An Interview with Irina Botea

by Caroline Picard | Jan 7, 2011

In college, I worked at a barn and my boss kept a special reenactment pony. The horse was prized above all others and regularly traveled the Southeast to reenact Civil …

Flash Points

Relational Aesthetics is the New Black: DIY Art School

by Meredith C. MacKenzie | Jan 7, 2011

Flash Points

Relational Aesthetics is the New Black: DIY Art School

by Meredith C. MacKenzie | Jan 7, 2011

Relational art functions as a response to the technological advances of everyday life, with virtual profiles acting as surrogates for human interaction.  Less obvious are the ways in which the …

On View Now

On View Now | The Spaces Between: John Baldessari at the Metropolitan Museum

by Max Weintraub | Jan 6, 2011

On View Now

On View Now | The Spaces Between: John Baldessari at the Metropolitan Museum

by Max Weintraub | Jan 6, 2011

Every so often, there comes along a retrospective exhibition or mid-career survey that puts to rest whatever doubts I may have had as to where a particular artist sits in …

In Flux Samples: An Interview with Young Joon Kwak

by Caroline Picard | Jan 6, 2011

In Flux Samples: An Interview with Young Joon Kwak

by Caroline Picard | Jan 6, 2011

Young Joon Kwak and I met a week before his solo-show, Eating Without A Face & Death Rites. The work was inspired by his time spent at the ACRE residency …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Terry O’Neill Award Show at Hotshoe Gallery

by Kerim Aytac | Jan 6, 2011

Letter from London

Letter from London: Terry O’Neill Award Show at Hotshoe Gallery

by Kerim Aytac | Jan 6, 2011

Guest blogger Kerim Aytac is filling in for regular columnist Ben Street this month while he makes his millions. — Ed. It’s hard to see the work of emerging photographers …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Out of Line

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 5, 2011

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Out of Line

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 5, 2011

If you get the opportunity in the next month, take some time to see On Line: Drawing Through the 20th Century at the Museum of Modern Art. And if you …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: So My Last Semester Lies Ahead, Then What?

by Carrie McGath | Jan 5, 2011

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: So My Last Semester Lies Ahead, Then What?

by Carrie McGath | Jan 5, 2011

While I chip away at my thesis and look toward my last semester at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), I have begun to think of my …

Memorial Photographs: An Interview with Jason Lazarus

by Caroline Picard | Jan 5, 2011

Memorial Photographs: An Interview with Jason Lazarus

by Caroline Picard | Jan 5, 2011

When Michael Jackson died, an impromptu dance party took place just outside my window. A young woman pulled up in a car wearing her best 80s outfit; she turned on …
Kara Walker

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jan 4, 2011

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jan 4, 2011

In the first weekly roundup of 2011: a Cai Guo Qiang New Year’s celebration in Taipei, Barry McGee in Brazil, two artists make art “scherenschnitte,” Richard Serra is ready for TV, …

Light and Desire: An Interview with Melanie Schiff

by Caroline Picard | Jan 4, 2011

Light and Desire: An Interview with Melanie Schiff

by Caroline Picard | Jan 4, 2011

While always being aware of her work, Melanie Schiff snapped into focus shortly after I first heard about Ox-bow, the School of the Art Insitute’s residency program in Saugatuck, Michigan. …

New guest blogger: Caroline Picard

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 4, 2011

New guest blogger: Caroline Picard

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 4, 2011

Happy New Year! Heading the 2011 guest blog is Caroline Picard, Editor of The Green Lantern Press. Her writing has been published in a handful of publications including Artiface, Pinch, …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

No Preservatives | Richard McCoy’s Top 10 iPhone Images

by Richard McCoy | Jan 1, 2011

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

No Preservatives | Richard McCoy’s Top 10 iPhone Images

by Richard McCoy | Jan 1, 2011

In 2010 I took more than 3,300 pictures and videos with my iPhone. No matter where I am, I have the thing with me; it’s terribly useful, occasionally entertaining, and …