Tag Archives: Sculpture
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #11
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #11
This month’s podcast features a review of Cathy Wilkes’s Chicago exhibition and discussion of a greatly-exaggerated report of Damien Hirst’s demise.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Under the Radar: Best of 2011, Part 2
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Under the Radar: Best of 2011, Part 2
Following up on last week’s post, here are a few more shows that flew under the radar in 2011, including Dana Schutz at the Neuberger and Katharina Grosse at Mass MoCA.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Under the Radar: Best of 2011
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Under the Radar: Best of 2011
Some excellent shows from 2011 flew a little under the radar, even a few housed in major museums, and they had plenty to offer when it comes to inspiring students and teachers. Part 1 of 2.
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Alena Williams on Nancy Holt
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Alena Williams on Nancy Holt
Nancy Holt, perhaps best known for her Sun Tunnels installed the Utah desert, is currently the subject of a traveling exhibition, Nancy Holt: Sightlines, curated by Alena Williams. The exhibition originated at …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking About Interdisciplinary Teaching with Mark Dion’s Neukom Vivarium
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking About Interdisciplinary Teaching with Mark Dion’s Neukom Vivarium
This past spring at the National Art Education Association’s annual conference in Seattle, Art21 brought Mark Dion not only as a keynote speaker, but also to explore his work and …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou
Jenny Marketou was born and raised in Athens, Greece and educated in the United States. She lives and works in New York. Marketou earned a BFA from the Corcoran School …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Taking the Long Way Home: Working With a Theme in a Series
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Taking the Long Way Home: Working With a Theme in a Series
One of the students in my advanced classes is taking on the theme of “looking vs. seeing” for her first semester portfolio. She wants to explore the things people tend …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette
Artist, scholar, organizer, and professor, Gregory Sholette embodies multiple ways that artists can interrogate history, politics, and public discourse. Through his initial work with the group REPOhistory (1989-2000) (as in, “repossessing …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
Living in a fabulous art city like Chicago, it’s easy to become urban-centric when it comes to contemporary art. But there’s a place just on the border of Chicago that …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Lynda Benglis, The Anti-Kitchen Artist
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Lynda Benglis, The Anti-Kitchen Artist
Once, when artists Liam Gillick and Sarah Morris had legendary minimalist Carl Andre over for dinner, Andre drank a bit much and let his tongue loose. To Morris, he said, …
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Healthy Mind/Healthy Body? Berlinde De Bruyckere at Montreal’s DHC
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Healthy Mind/Healthy Body? Berlinde De Bruyckere at Montreal’s DHC
Before the analysis comes rushing in like an insuppressible wave, I am struck with the straight-up “thingness” of Flemish artist, Berlinde De Bruyckere’s corporeal sculptures at gallery DHC in Montreal. …
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 …
Letter from London
Letter from London | World on a String
Letter from London
Letter from London | World on a String
Language draws an imaginary line around objects. That demarcation follows through in all the lines in our lives: the Morse code of a Risk board’s borders, anticipatory lines dragged across …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Since When Is Red a Conservative Color?
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Since When Is Red a Conservative Color?
At a meeting on Tuesday, July 12, officials in California’s Riverside County decided seceding from the rest of the state might not be such a good idea after all. The …
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 …
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