Tag Archives: New York City
Teaching with Contemporary Art
An Interview with Jessica Hoffmann Davis, Part One
Teaching with Contemporary Art
An Interview with Jessica Hoffmann Davis, Part One
This week it’s my pleasure to kick off a two-part interview with one of my favorite authors in the field of education, Jessica Hoffmann Davis.
Jessica Hoffmann Davis has published and lectured extensively on the role and promise of arts learning, drawing not only on her own and other current research, but also on personal experience as a visual artist, writer, and educator. While her popular book, Why Our Schools Need the Arts (Teachers College Press, 2008), proposes a “new and unapologetic approach to advocacy for the arts in education”, I originally came to admire her work through reading (and re-reading!) Framing Education as Art: The Octopus has a Good Day (Teachers College Press, 2005), where she challenges non-arts education to be more connected to and like the arts.
Art21 New York Close Up
NYCU | Alejandro Almanza Pereda’s Obstacle Course
Art21 New York Close Up
NYCU | Alejandro Almanza Pereda’s Obstacle Course
How do artists overcome the hurdles of moving to New York City? Watch Alejandro Almanza Pereda contend with a series of obstacles during his first semester of graduate school at Hunter College.
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Political Art for a Contentious Time
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Political Art for a Contentious Time
Following a trend that began with the Enlightenment, prints play a role in today’s political discourse by disseminating artists’ views and rallying the public.
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Doug Ashford
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Doug Ashford
Thom Donovan interviews Doug Ashford, who is widely known for his work with Group Material during the period 1983-1996.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with New York Close Up: David Brooks Tears The Roof Off
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with New York Close Up: David Brooks Tears The Roof Off
David Brooks Tears The Roof Off is an apt title for one of our most recent New York Close Up films this summer. Within the first 60 seconds of a …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Kids on the Beach?
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Kids on the Beach?
There are times when you just have to sit for a while in order to experience a show… and sometimes you get lucky and there are also benches in the picture. I got lucky on steamy summer day and both elements came together for a recent visit to Rineke Dijkstra’s retrospective at the Guggenheim, on view through October 8th.
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Leeza Ahmady (Part 2)
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Leeza Ahmady (Part 2)
Part 2 of Georgia Kotretsos’ interview with independent curator Leeza Ahmady, the director of Asian Contemporary Art Week in New York.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Summer Talk
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Summer Talk
For as long as I can remember, interviews like those featured in Bomb, Harpers and Art in America have inspired me to reevaluate the kinds of things I assume in my own teaching and art making. Divergent perspectives, or perspectives that are close to my own but unfamiliar in some ways, have provided me with more than just stunning quotes to share with my students and ideas to meditate on in the studio. I find myself underlining, highlighting, bookmarking pages and sticking post-its all over the place (a well-loved book in my library looks like it’s been through hell and back).
Art21 New York Close Up
NYCU | “David Brooks Tears the Roof Off”
Art21 New York Close Up
NYCU | “David Brooks Tears the Roof Off”
Watch artist David Brooks and a team of fabricators construct “Desert Rooftops” (2011–12), an Art Production Fund commission for the last undeveloped lot in Manhattan’s Times Square neighborhood.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on the Art21 Educators Summer Institute
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on the Art21 Educators Summer Institute
This past Art21 Educators summer institute, which was recently held from July 2-10 here in NYC, just FLEW. Sixteen art, science, Spanish, English, special education, language arts and social studies teachers came together with us for eight days of workshops, conversations, artist visits, studio visits and museum visits in order to explore ways of utilizing contemporary art to foster student learning.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
TASK Unplugged
Teaching with Contemporary Art
TASK Unplugged
This year, to begin the fourth annual Art21 Educators Institute, we will start our nine days with Oliver Herring and TASK at Luhring Augustine Gallery in Brooklyn. In a year that has in some ways been about “restraints” inspired by Matthew Barney, we will be running TASK with three materials: pencil, paper and string.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
A Year of Contemporary Art in (and out of) Contemporary Classrooms
Teaching with Contemporary Art
A Year of Contemporary Art in (and out of) Contemporary Classrooms
This is part two of a three part series that will share the experiences of three Art21 Education staff members (Jessica Hamlin, Joe Fusaro, and Flossie Chua) after spending a year with a group of 16 incredible teachers. Each of us has a unique perspective on the past twelve months and this series will ruminate on what it means to teach with contemporary art, specifically contextualized by our experiences this year working with the Art21 Educators program.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
A Year of Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms
Teaching with Contemporary Art
A Year of Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms
Jessica Hamlin kicks off a three-part series sharing the experiences of three Art21 Education staff members who spent a year with a group of sixteen incredible teachers.
Art21 New York Close Up
NYCU | Mika Rottenberg & Jon Kessler Wanna Make You Sweat
Art21 New York Close Up
NYCU | Mika Rottenberg & Jon Kessler Wanna Make You Sweat
Our latest New York Close Up is now live! Watch Mika Rottenberg discuss SEVEN, her 2011 performance collaboration with Jon Kessler commissioned for the Performa biennial.
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