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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching About Poverty and Homelessness
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching About Poverty and Homelessness
This past Saturday, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow wrote an op-ed piece called Them That’s Not Shall Lose which highlighted, as James Baldwin put it, how expensive it …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Preservation, Perfection, and Patina: Eleonora Nagy Discusses Conserving Judd’s Art
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Preservation, Perfection, and Patina: Eleonora Nagy Discusses Conserving Judd’s Art
Art conservator Eleonora Nagy talks about her historic relationship with the conservation of Donald Judd’s artworks with IMA conservator Richard McCoy.
Art21 New York Close Up
New York Close Up: The First 10 Films
Art21 New York Close Up
New York Close Up: The First 10 Films
Art21’s newest documentary series, New York Close Up, just premiered its 10th film in its first installment. More film are forthcoming in the fall. In honor of this milestone, we’ve …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Talking with File Type curators Chaz Evans and Lorelei Stewart
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Talking with File Type curators Chaz Evans and Lorelei Stewart
When I initially saw the promotional poster for File Type, currently on view at University of Illinois at Chicago’s Gallery 400, I was immediately intrigued by the curatorial premise posed …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Revealing “Unfinished Paintings”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Revealing “Unfinished Paintings”
The nature of painting – its objecthood, its permanence — demands a level of resolution and wholeness to which other more ephemeral art practices need not always answer. Hence the …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
It’s a Wrap: Looking Backward and Thinking Forward
Teaching with Contemporary Art
It’s a Wrap: Looking Backward and Thinking Forward
Atsuko Tanaka (1932-2005), “Round on Sand”, 1968 Right around this time I usually write a post that relates to things we as art educators often think about at the end …
Art21 New York Close Up
Premiere of LaToya Ruby Frazier’s First Film!
Art21 New York Close Up
Premiere of LaToya Ruby Frazier’s First Film!
In addition to being LaToya’s first documentary film, it features her first performance—which we’re honored to have had the privilege to document. Watch it here: “LaToya Ruby Frazier Takes on …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Carlos Motta
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Carlos Motta
While Carlos Motta’s work exists through a number of different media, I think of it primarily as putting forth a series of socially and politically committed archives. These archives are …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Şener Özmen
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Şener Özmen
While preparing to travel to Diyarbakır, the largest city in southeastern Turkey, I discovered that telling Turkish people who live outside of that region that you’re going to visit Diyarbakır …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice Episode 5: Open Engagement, William J. O’Brien at The Ren
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice Episode 5: Open Engagement, William J. O’Brien at The Ren
On this month’s episode of Fielding Practice, Bad at Sports’ co-founder Richard Holland joins Duncan MacKenzie, Dan Gunn and Ime for our regular roundtable discussion about art, culture, and related …
Art21 New York Close Up
“New York Close Up” Film Premiere: Shana Moulton and Kalup Linzy
Art21 New York Close Up
“New York Close Up” Film Premiere: Shana Moulton and Kalup Linzy
It’s a momentous Monday here at Art21. Following Maren Miller’s thoughtful introduction of our newest documentary series, New York Close Up, last week, we are thrilled to present you with …
Calling from Canada
Calling from Canada | Surrey Art Gallery’s “Dwellings”
Calling from Canada
Calling from Canada | Surrey Art Gallery’s “Dwellings”
As part of the exhibition Dwellings at the Surrey Art Gallery, Sitely Premises is a group show of works by artists who have examined the exterior of Lower Mainland residential …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Barbara Kruger, Shafted and Shining
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Barbara Kruger, Shafted and Shining
In 2008, when Eli Broad opened his big, brazen inaugural BCAM show on the Los Angeles County Museum’s Campus, Barbara Kruger (Season 1) was shafted, stuck accenting an elevator while …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Reflecting on Teaching with William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Reflecting on Teaching with William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible
This past Saturday I sat down with a small group of wonderful teachers at the Jacob Burns Film Center’s Media Arts Lab for the second part of a two-part workshop …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco Part 2
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco Part 2
New relationships are often built over food. We sit down to share a bowl of soup together and rise knowing each other better than before. But food’s not just a …
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