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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Gregory Sholette
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Gregory Sholette
Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, and founding member of Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980-1988), and REPOhistory (1989-2000). A graduate of The Cooper Union (BFA 1979), The University …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Digging through Nicole Eisenman’s current show at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, one begins to understand why it’s so perfect that the artist presents us with 77 different titles for …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Glenn Ligon, Ai Weiwei and The Art Cops
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Glenn Ligon, Ai Weiwei and The Art Cops
Three things this week… Maika Pollack recently wrote a wonderful review in The New York Observer about the current Glenn Ligon show at the Whitney Museum. As I visited the …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Not An Alternative
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Not An Alternative
I encountered the art group Not An Alternative for the first time about a month ago in Corona, Queens, where Tania Bruguera (featured last month in 5 Questions) had assembled …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | “Feet on the Ground, Head in the Clouds”
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | “Feet on the Ground, Head in the Clouds”
In the Deer Forest “Hi, my name is Peter. Do you want to find out why?” With these words, I became acquainted with Katja Tukiainen. In the back room at …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | “Chaos 1” Returns to Life
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | “Chaos 1” Returns to Life
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks about the return of Jean Tinguely’s 1974 masterpiece “Chaos 1” in Columbus, Indiana.
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Juozas Cernius
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Juozas Cernius
Juozas Cernius is a Canadian visual artist based in Toronto. He has received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004) and his BFA from Concordia …
Art21 Extended Play
Paul McCarthy: “Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement”
Art21 Extended Play
Paul McCarthy: “Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement”
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #142: Artist Paul McCarthy discusses his interest in art as political theater and his sculptures as akin to amusement …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Nine Months Later, a Master’s Degree
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Nine Months Later, a Master’s Degree
Last Friday, my invitation to graduation arrived in the mail. It seemed rather premature as I am but a fraction of the way through researching and writing my final dissertation, …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Aslı Çavuşoğlu
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Aslı Çavuşoğlu
A small black and white newspaper photograph hangs on the wall of Aslı Çavuşoğlu’s studio, located in an old warehouse in Istanbul’s Karaköy district. The photograph is crowd shot, taken …
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