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Yearly Archives: 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Welcome to Whoop Dee Doo! (with Matt Roche & Jaimie Warren Too)

by Wesley Miller | Jun 1, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Welcome to Whoop Dee Doo! (with Matt Roche & Jaimie Warren Too)

by Wesley Miller | Jun 1, 2015

In a new “New York Close Up” film, artists Jaimie Warren and Matt Roche produce a one-day-only performance of their variety show, Whoop Dee Doo, at Abrons Arts Center.

On Returning Home and Works in Progress: A Conversation with Bukola Koiki

by Brannon Rockwell-Charland | May 27, 2015

On Returning Home and Works in Progress: A Conversation with Bukola Koiki

by Brannon Rockwell-Charland | May 27, 2015

I first learned about Bukola Koiki’s art through Facebook. She posted an essay about her work in the group named “BCC: BrownHall Community,” a networking forum for Black artists in …

The Walker Curates the News: 05.25.15

by Walker Art Center | May 25, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 05.25.15

by Walker Art Center | May 25, 2015

Pierre Huyghe’s new work at the Met resembles both a natural history museum display and a land art installation. The French conceptual artist displaced some of the rooftop terrace’s paving stones, …

Art21 Extended Play

Perspectives from the “Gramsci Monument”

by Ian Forster | May 22, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Perspectives from the “Gramsci Monument”

by Ian Forster | May 22, 2015

“I don’t do something for the community, I do something, I hope, for art and the understanding of art – my goal is this.” —Thomas Hirschhorn Today’s ART21 Exclusive features the …

Behind Voids and Dissonance: Experimental Music of Fluxus and the Source Family

by Casey Winkleman | May 20, 2015

Behind Voids and Dissonance: Experimental Music of Fluxus and the Source Family

by Casey Winkleman | May 20, 2015

“Purge the world of bourgeois sickness, ‘intellectual,’ professional and commercialized culture; Purge the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art, abstract art, illusionistic art—PURGE THE WORLD OF ‘EUROPANISM!’” [1]. Written with …

The Walker Curates the News: 05.18.15

by Walker Art Center | May 18, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 05.18.15

by Walker Art Center | May 18, 2015

Joan Jonas‘s “triumphal exhibition” at the Venice Biennale “doesn’t simply look back on a long and fruitful career: It extends that career,” writes Roberta Smith of the 70-year-old artist’s US …

Art21 Extended Play

Leonardo Drew and Piet Mondrian Meet on the Grid

by Ian Forster | May 15, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Leonardo Drew and Piet Mondrian Meet on the Grid

by Ian Forster | May 15, 2015

“What can I say about Mondrian, he’s just the man. As far as the grid and composition, obviously I’m working off of him and standing on the shoulders of giants.” …

Personal Digital Networks

by Sara Schnadt & Kristy Baltezore | May 13, 2015

Personal Digital Networks

by Sara Schnadt & Kristy Baltezore | May 13, 2015

Sara Schnadt and Kristy Baltezore met three years ago at the kitchen table of their mutual friend and fellow new-media artist Rob Ray, who is like a chosen family member. …

The Walker Curates the News: 05.11.15

by Walker Art Center | May 12, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 05.11.15

by Walker Art Center | May 12, 2015

Nearly 60 top arts figures—including Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, and Richard Prince—have signed a letter urging NYC officials to deny the Frick Collection’s expansion proposal on the grounds …

Art21 Extended Play

Joan Jonas Performs in the Streets of New York

by Ian Forster | May 6, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Joan Jonas Performs in the Streets of New York

by Ian Forster | May 6, 2015

“I wanted to develop my own language and the minute I started performing I began to invent in a different way.” —Joan Jonas Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Joan Jonas discussing her decision to …

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Alicia Eler

by Alicia Eler | May 6, 2015

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Alicia Eler

by Alicia Eler | May 6, 2015

One’s experience of family can be joyous, painful, bizarre, revelatory, and intimate. To describe it with any single word wouldn’t do it justice. Like a parade, it’s a cacophony of …

Subverting Mass Media: The Collection of the Girls of the Internet Museum Accentuates Sincerity

by Alexis Avedisian | May 6, 2015

Subverting Mass Media: The Collection of the Girls of the Internet Museum Accentuates Sincerity

by Alexis Avedisian | May 6, 2015

Gaby Cepeda, an independent curator based in Lima, Peru, founded the Girls of the Internet Museum as a way to archive Internet works made by an international group of women. Controlled …

Mom in the Mirror

by Roni Ginach | May 6, 2015

Mom in the Mirror

by Roni Ginach | May 6, 2015

In December 2013, I received a master’s degree in psychoanalysis at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in New York, the same institute where my mother trained, starting in the …

The Walker Curates the News: 05.04.15

by Walker Art Center | May 4, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 05.04.15

by Walker Art Center | May 4, 2015

“There are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and they think to themselves, well, that’s not a …

Art21 New York Close Up

Diana Al-Hadid Plays the Classics

by Nick Ravich | May 1, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Diana Al-Hadid Plays the Classics

by Nick Ravich | May 1, 2015

Artist Diana Al-Hadid creates a singularly hybrid artwork, transforming brushstrokes on a wall into architectural sculpture, in a new film from the ART21 “New York Close Up” series.

Copy That!

Beauty Is in the Streets

by Joy Garnett | Apr 29, 2015

Copy That!

Beauty Is in the Streets

by Joy Garnett | Apr 29, 2015

Walking the city streets offers the unexpected. I find interesting things, mostly garbage, some of it recently thrown away. My discoveries come in two parts: first, the reaction of surprise, …

The Walker Curates the News: 04.27.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 27, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 04.27.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 27, 2015

Is arts writing seeing a generational shift akin to the Post-Internet generation in art? Or do we need a new generation of writers to face new topics and aesthetics? Andreas …

The Zone

by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme | Apr 22, 2015

The Zone

by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme | Apr 22, 2015

The Zone is an ongoing research project that has different extensions; previously it has been shown as a multiscreen video and sound installation at the New Art Exchange and the …

The Walker Curates the News: 04.20.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 20, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 04.20.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 20, 2015

Holographic activists marched through the streets of Madrid recently in protest of a new law aimed at preventing Spanish citizens from demonstrating against Congress. “Our protest with holograms is ironic,” …

Art21 Extended Play

Anarchic Color in Katharina Grosse’s Paintings

by Ian Forster | Apr 17, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Anarchic Color in Katharina Grosse’s Paintings

by Ian Forster | Apr 17, 2015

“Painting is one of the ways to actually make [my thoughts] visible and understandable for myself” —Katharina Grosse Today’s ART21 Exclusive shows Katharina Grosse in her studio and at Johann König Gallery (both …

New Kids on the Block

The Archives of Kameelah Rasheed

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Apr 15, 2015

New Kids on the Block

The Archives of Kameelah Rasheed

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Apr 15, 2015

The artist Kameelah Rasheed was twelve years old in 1998, when her family—mother, father, and four brothers—had lost their home. The value of land in northern California near East Palo …

The Walker Curates the News: 04.13.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 13, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 04.13.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 13, 2015

In a recent interview, Chinese multimedia artist Cao Fei reflects on life in Beijing, motherhood, censorship, and the trends that she has observed in the art created by new Chinese …

Audible Afterimages

by John McKissick | Apr 8, 2015

Audible Afterimages

by John McKissick | Apr 8, 2015

Collapse: Abandoned to the indifference of physical nature, any neglected artifact disintegrates. Places too are social artifacts, architectural masses sustained in space by forms of life. When customs falter or …

The Walker Curates the News: 04.06.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 6, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 04.06.15

by Walker Art Center | Apr 6, 2015

A “messy, wild, irreverent joy,” Trenton Doyle Hancock’s traveling retrospective at the Studio Museum Harlem, Skin and Bones, pulls viewers into the artist’s surreal imagination and traces the evolution of his …

Art21 New York Close Up

Rashid Johnson Keeps His Cool

by Nick Ravich | Apr 3, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Rashid Johnson Keeps His Cool

by Nick Ravich | Apr 3, 2015

In a new ART21 “New York Close Up” film, artist Rashid Johnson charts a decade-long aesthetic and professional development from his early portrait photographs to his later conceptually-based sculptures.

Being Protected

by Abigail Levine | Apr 1, 2015

Being Protected

by Abigail Levine | Apr 1, 2015

During the spring of 2010, I spent several hours each day, usually unclothed, either standing, sitting, lying, or perching on a bicycle seat in the sixth-floor galleries of the Museum …

The Walker Curates the News: 03.30.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 30, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 03.30.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 30, 2015

The US Postal Service released five “forever” stamps commemorating the late self-taught artist Martín Ramírez last week. “Ramírez counts as a highly unusual choice not only because he was Mexican-American …

Art21 Extended Play

Trevor Paglen Photographs the NSA

by Ian Forster | Mar 27, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Trevor Paglen Photographs the NSA

by Ian Forster | Mar 27, 2015

“You as a member of the public should be able to exert the same kind of power over this institution that we can symbolically do by looking at a photograph …

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Mar 25, 2015

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Mar 25, 2015

New and recent goings-on featuring Mark Bradford, Paul Pfeiffer, Mary Reid Kelley, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Ann Hamilton, and other ART21-featured artists, all in this week’s roundup.

Elite Properties

by James Hannaham | Mar 25, 2015

Elite Properties

by James Hannaham | Mar 25, 2015

There are ruins, and then there are ruiners. Urban areas in the western hemisphere no longer develop organically—or with regard to geographical features or agricultural or even industrial needs—but rather …

The Walker Curates the News: 03.23.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 23, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 03.23.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 23, 2015

When poet Kenneth Goldsmith read a modified version of Michael Brown’s autopsy report as poetry at a Brown University conference, it left many in the audience stunned and sparked a …

The Catch

by Lex Brown | Mar 18, 2015

The Catch

by Lex Brown | Mar 18, 2015

I am a transplant to Los Angeles, I’m a person of color, and I live in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. Witnessing and doing my best not to accelerate these changes, …

The Walker Curates the News: 03.16.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 16, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 03.16.15

by Walker Art Center | Mar 16, 2015

Nonprojections for New Lovers, the new Hugo Boss Prize exhibition,  showcases work by artist and experimental publisher, Paul Chan. The artist’s “nonprojections” expand the concept of the moving image as …

Art21 Extended Play

Trevor Paglen Flexes His Rights

by Ian Forster | Mar 13, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Trevor Paglen Flexes His Rights

by Ian Forster | Mar 13, 2015

“To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph. You’re flexing that right.” —Trevor Paglen Today’s ART21 …

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Mar 11, 2015

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Mar 11, 2015

ART21-related goings on featuring Janine Antoni, Mary Reid Kelley, Jessica Stockholder, Cao Fei, and others as they present work in exhibitions around the world.

Rooms With A View

by Erin Sweeny | Mar 11, 2015

Rooms With A View

by Erin Sweeny | Mar 11, 2015

“Treat your body like it belongs to someone you love.” I spied this sentence in a health-food store recently. My thoughts wandered to catchphrases spouted in yoga classes, talking about …