Tag Archives: Interviews
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Siemon Allen
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Siemon Allen
Siemon Allen is a South African artist who currently lives and works in the United States. He received his MFA from Natal Technikon (now Durban Institute of Technology) and was …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Embodying Echoes: An Interview with Matthew Goulish
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Embodying Echoes: An Interview with Matthew Goulish
“WE MAY AGREE on the premise that each work of art is at least in part perfect, while each critic is at least in part imperfect. We may then look …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Sanford Biggers
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Sanford Biggers
Images from popular culture abound in Sanford Biggers’s work, and particularly from hip-hop, East Asian Buddhism, and the Antebellum and Afro-Futurist African-American. Two images that have become particularly emblematic for …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Making Work: A Continued Discussion with Jeff Jamieson
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Making Work: A Continued Discussion with Jeff Jamieson
Artist Jeff Jamieson talks with IMA Conservator Richard McCoy about working with Robert Irwin and other artists.
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Preservation, Perfection, and Patina: Jeff Jamieson Discusses the Fabrication of Donald Judd’s Wood Furniture
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Preservation, Perfection, and Patina: Jeff Jamieson Discusses the Fabrication of Donald Judd’s Wood Furniture
Jeff Jamieson talks about his history of making Judd Furniture with IMA conservator Richard McCoy.
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Serkan Özkaya
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Serkan Özkaya
Serkan Özkaya is a contemporary conceptual artist based in Istanbul, Turkey, and New York City. His work deals with topics of appropriation and reproduction and it typically operates outside of …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson
When I asked Anne Wilson if I could interview her for Art21, she sent me a preview copy of her book, Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave—a catalogue published collaboratively by White Walls and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Calling from Canada
Calling from Canada | An Interview with Tyson Parks
Calling from Canada
Calling from Canada | An Interview with Tyson Parks
The first really noticeable thing about new media artist Tyson Parks’s digital paintings is their fostering of tension between organic and synthetic elements. Images of readymades provide the tip of …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Visons for Chicago: Public Art with Organizer Daniel Tucker
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Visons for Chicago: Public Art with Organizer Daniel Tucker
I’ve known Daniel Tucker for about five years now and I’ve always thought of him as a true Chicago artist, somewhere in between artist, organizer, writer, and administrator and always …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | In Poor Taste,* Lunch with Jani Leinonen
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | In Poor Taste,* Lunch with Jani Leinonen
I was waiting in line to buy a movie ticket when I heard the news: Jani Leinonen had been incarcerated. Conversations with my Finnish friends in the previous weeks had …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Exploring the Freedom to Re-Present Value: A Discussion with Theaster Gates
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Exploring the Freedom to Re-Present Value: A Discussion with Theaster Gates
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with artist Theaster Gates about Thornton Dial in relations to Gate’s art practice in
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