Tag Archives: Social

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou

by Georgia Kotretsos | Oct 28, 2011

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou

by Georgia Kotretsos | Oct 28, 2011

  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 …

Money/Market

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 20, 2011

Money/Market

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 20, 2011

Let’s face it. Occupy Wall Street, and just about everything else, is about money – who has it and who doesn’t – and how the market can help or hurt …

What Is To Be Done?* Conversations, Commerce, and Collaborations

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 17, 2011

What Is To Be Done?* Conversations, Commerce, and Collaborations

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 17, 2011

Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China, presented at The Smart Museum of Art in Chicago in 2000, was a metaphorical representation of It’s Me, a 1998 Chinese experimental art exhibition that was …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Getting Set for PS1’s “September 11”

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 12, 2011

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Getting Set for PS1’s “September 11”

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 12, 2011

In two weeks I am taking a group of students to visit the September 11 exhibition at PS1. Most of the high school students in these two classes have some …

Happiness as an Aesthetic Strategy

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 12, 2011

Happiness as an Aesthetic Strategy

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 12, 2011

After 22 years of Richard M. Daley, the longest-serving mayor in Chicago’s history, our city has a new mayor, Rahm Emanuel. While artists often greet new politicians with a screed …

Encounters with Generosity, Cooperation, and Community

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 10, 2011

Encounters with Generosity, Cooperation, and Community

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 10, 2011

The unpredictable and often ephemeral encounters that occur when art, community, audience, and ideas intersect are what excite me most about working with artists. For my last project at the …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Joy and Revolution: Talking with Adam Weiler of Ambrose

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 7, 2011

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Joy and Revolution: Talking with Adam Weiler of Ambrose

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 7, 2011

If you’re not familiar with Ambrose, well…. you should be. A few months ago on a trip to work with teachers at the Holland Area Arts Council in Michigan I …

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette

by Thom Donovan | Aug 26, 2011

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette

by Thom Donovan | Aug 26, 2011

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 …

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation

by Lily Simonson | Aug 25, 2011

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation

by Lily Simonson | Aug 25, 2011

  Los Angeles has a reputation for not only its excess, sprawl, and exploding population, but also for its unruly, anarchic and highly changeable landscape.  Rethink/LA: Perspectives on a Future …

Problematic: Answering Questions with Questions

Problematic | The Artist As Entrepreneur

by Lindsay Lawson | Aug 16, 2011

Problematic: Answering Questions with Questions

Problematic | The Artist As Entrepreneur

by Lindsay Lawson | Aug 16, 2011

Most artists assume the role of an artist, perhaps by going to school, perhaps by having a studio, or not. Bruce Nauman made it simple by deciding that anything he …

Community Arts Training Institute: A Conversation with Roseann Weiss

by Francesca Wilmott | Aug 1, 2011

Community Arts Training Institute: A Conversation with Roseann Weiss

by Francesca Wilmott | Aug 1, 2011

During my time as a guest blogger for Art21, I’ve examined various initiatives that have transformed the cultural landscape of St. Louis. Despite the city’s dwindling population, the arts are …

Creative Rebuild: Theaster Gates in Hyde Park, St. Louis

by Francesca Wilmott | Aug 1, 2011

Creative Rebuild: Theaster Gates in Hyde Park, St. Louis

by Francesca Wilmott | Aug 1, 2011

Artist Theaster Gates likes systems. And what he likes more than a system itself is knowing how to leverage it. Though formally trained in handling clay, Gates also uses the …
Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Kate Hartman Talks to Herself … and the Art21 Blog

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Jul 27, 2011

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Kate Hartman Talks to Herself … and the Art21 Blog

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Jul 27, 2011

One recurring conversation in art school is the difference between art and design. Nowadays technology has also been thrown into the fray. Artist and educator Kate Hartman has the pleasure …

Of Monuments and Memorials: St. Louis Modernism and Juan William Chávez’s Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary

by Francesca Wilmott | Jul 26, 2011

Of Monuments and Memorials: St. Louis Modernism and Juan William Chávez’s Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary

by Francesca Wilmott | Jul 26, 2011

Notable attention has turned to what many consider the golden age of modern St. Louis—the 1950s—when the city reached its highest population and garnered international attention for its architectural contributions. …

Testing the Limits: Cultural Activism in the Gateway City

by Francesca Wilmott | Jul 19, 2011

Testing the Limits: Cultural Activism in the Gateway City

by Francesca Wilmott | Jul 19, 2011

When the 2010 U.S. Census figures were released in February of this year, many in St. Louis were alarmed. According to census data, the city’s population declined eight percent in …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | Gone Shrimping!

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 15, 2011

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | Gone Shrimping!

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 15, 2011

Forrest Gump was one of those rare films that changed the way people think about random everyday stuff, from a box of chocolates to a new pair of sneakers to …

Building The Pleasure Palace Theater of the Future: Archiving Shirley Clarke’s Early Video Work

by Beth Capper | Jul 11, 2011

Building The Pleasure Palace Theater of the Future: Archiving Shirley Clarke’s Early Video Work

by Beth Capper | Jul 11, 2011

Being a fan of “themes,” my posts as guest blogger for Art21 will revolve around (digital) archives and feminist/women’s art (histories), issues that my own work is heavily concerned with. …

Calling from Canada

Calling from Canada | Surrey Art Gallery’s “Dwellings”

by Raji Sohal | Jun 13, 2011

Calling from Canada

Calling from Canada | Surrey Art Gallery’s “Dwellings”

by Raji Sohal | Jun 13, 2011

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 …

Flash Points

EMPATHY VIRUS

by Din Heagney | Jun 6, 2011

Flash Points

EMPATHY VIRUS

by Din Heagney | Jun 6, 2011

“People kept telling me art can’t change the world; so I stopped calling what I do art,” says Carl Scrase, a young Australian artist who shot to local fame with his …

Flash Points

PUBLIC AMNESIA

by Din Heagney | Jun 2, 2011

Flash Points

PUBLIC AMNESIA

by Din Heagney | Jun 2, 2011

History isn’t was. History is. No matter how much we wipe our feet at the front door, we track history through the house. Leaving its muddy footprints all over the …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Gregory Sholette

by Georgia Kotretsos | May 27, 2011

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Gregory Sholette

by Georgia Kotretsos | May 27, 2011

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

by Thom Donovan | May 19, 2011

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Not An Alternative

by Thom Donovan | May 19, 2011

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 …

Adam Smith As an Artist

by Amy Whitaker | May 19, 2011

Adam Smith As an Artist

by Amy Whitaker | May 19, 2011

Part 2 of what art and economics have to do with each other. . . . A few years ago I came across a biographical sketch of Adam Smith, founding …
Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Holding Back the Tears

by Michelle Millar Fisher | May 18, 2011

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Holding Back the Tears

by Michelle Millar Fisher | May 18, 2011

I’ve never been able to get past the touchy-feely over-share of the title of James Elkins’s 2001 book Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front …
Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The ITP Class of 2011

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | May 18, 2011

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The ITP Class of 2011

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | May 18, 2011

When I read Nicole Caruth’s write-up of Miriam Simun’s Lady Cheese Shop last week, I screamed, “she stole my blog post!” Simun was a fellow student of my program until …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | Out of the Mouths of Babes

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 13, 2011

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | Out of the Mouths of Babes

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 13, 2011

Miriam Simun’s The Lady Cheese Shop, installed at Michael Mut Gallery in New York for four days between April and May, served up three different types of cheese at its opening …

Contest! DIY Wall Labels. . .

by Amy Whitaker | May 12, 2011

Contest! DIY Wall Labels. . .

by Amy Whitaker | May 12, 2011

My publisher Greg Albers of Hol Art Books got me thinking about museum wall labels again recently.  In Greg’s honor, I thought I would host a (drum roll, please)… Wall …

Monday Painter/Sunday Banker

by Amy Whitaker | May 10, 2011

Monday Painter/Sunday Banker

by Amy Whitaker | May 10, 2011

I am so pleased to be a new guest blogger at Art21.  We were encouraged to introduce ourselves in our first blog post, and so I thought I would write …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Visons for Chicago: Public Art with Organizer Daniel Tucker

by Abigail Satinsky | Apr 26, 2011

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Visons for Chicago: Public Art with Organizer Daniel Tucker

by Abigail Satinsky | Apr 26, 2011

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 …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Exploring the Freedom to Re-Present Value: A Discussion with Theaster Gates

by Richard McCoy | Apr 19, 2011

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Exploring the Freedom to Re-Present Value: A Discussion with Theaster Gates

by Richard McCoy | Apr 19, 2011

IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with artist Theaster Gates about Thornton Dial in relations to Gate’s art practice in

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Tania Bruguera

by Thom Donovan | Apr 14, 2011

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Tania Bruguera

by Thom Donovan | Apr 14, 2011

Tania Bruguera’s long and various career as an artist starts with a series of works made after, but mainly through, the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta. I say “through,” because in …

Street Folk

by Allison Glenn | Apr 11, 2011

Street Folk

by Allison Glenn | Apr 11, 2011

Like this post? Help us fund our guest blog for the next year. Donate to Blog Party, our first-ever blog fundraiser, today! One cannot talk about the relational art projects …

The Lot: A Functional Site

by Allison Glenn | Apr 10, 2011

The Lot: A Functional Site

by Allison Glenn | Apr 10, 2011

The Lot is a curatorial project that began in 2009 with the goal to provide space for site-responsive performance art while pushing the boundaries of what non-commissioned public art in …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Georgia Kotretsos

by Shannon Fitzgerald | Apr 7, 2011

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Georgia Kotretsos

by Shannon Fitzgerald | Apr 7, 2011

Georgia Kotretsos is a visual artist, writer, and curator currently based in Athens, Greece.  She earned a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA …

The Performativity of Site

by Allison Glenn | Apr 4, 2011

The Performativity of Site

by Allison Glenn | Apr 4, 2011

  Collectivity and site specificity are two themes that are incorporated into many artists’ projects in Detroit. Shared information, shared space, and sustained growth are what fuel the brains behind …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Wrapping Up Art21 at NAEA 2011

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 30, 2011

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Wrapping Up Art21 at NAEA 2011

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 30, 2011

It was suggested that perhaps the TWCA column could provide a a wrap-up of the National Art Education Association’s annual conference in pictures this year, and while I would like …